A batch of the best highlights from what Lukas's read, .
Dunbar’s research suggests one vaguely reassuring thought: even with all the advanced technology of a leading molecular biology lab, the most productive tool for generating good ideas remains a circle of humans at a table, talking shop. The lab meeting creates an environment where new combinations can occur, where information can spill over from one project to another. When you work alone in an office, peering into a microscope, your ideas can get trapped in place, stuck in your own initial biases. The social flow of the group conversation turns that private solid state into a liquid network.
Where Good Ideas Come From
Steven Johnson
Apart from all the obvious stuff, I think that young guys have the advantage because they are willing to work 24/7, do not have a family, do not have any commitments. They can focus rather than hedge. I think the better reason is it is more likely that their unique body of skill and knowledge will be in the right place at the right time,
Venture Capitalists at Work
Tarang Shah, Tarang Shah, Sheetal Shah
One’s temperament is phlegmatic or hot-blooded, for example, not because one chose it, but because that’s the hand nature dealt. Leadership can only be character. Character is not forced on us by nature, however. We are not stuck with it. It is something we can shape and mold and strengthen,