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Paradoxically, many government interventions and social policies end up hurting the weak and consolidating the established.
Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
But what’s apparent when you work with them is not their academic knowledge so much as a sense of informed intuition, akin to what Harvard Business School professor Dorothy Leonard calls “Deep Smarts.” Although no IDEO Anthropologist has ever given me a unified theory of their role, I have noticed half a dozen distinguishing characteristics. Some are strategic and some are quite tactical: Anthropologists seek out epiphanies through a sense of “Vuja De.”
The Ten Faces of Innovation
Tom Kelley, Jonathan Littman
Just as global networks of communication and transportation had made the mass migrations of the late nineteenth century possible,6 so political networks of populism and nativism sprang into life to resist them.