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WHAT’S YOUR LEGO? Get a small thing, a basic building block. Combine it with another and another until you have what you need. That’s how a single solar cell becomes a solar panel, which becomes a solar array, which becomes a massive megawatt-churning solar farm. Modularity delivers faster, cheaper, and better, making it valuable for all project types and sizes. But for building at a truly huge scale—the scale that transforms cities, countries, even the world—modularity is not just valuable, it’s indispensable.
How Big Things Get Done
Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner
To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What’s needed is a sound intellectual framework for making decisions and the ability to keep emotions from corroding that framework. This book precisely and clearly prescribes the proper framework. You must supply the emotional discipline.
The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed
Benjamin Graham, Jason Zweig
No matter what problem you are working through, the most important thing to remember is that the felt experience of intimacy and partnership is more important than the end result of most decisions. On your deathbed, you won’t be thinking about what couch you two decided to buy decades earlier. Instead, you’ll probably be thinking about how well you were able to love and be loved.