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A significant proportion of humanity’s cultural achievements owe their existence to the exploitation of conquered populations.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
Clearly, the same object can look very different from a distance than it does from nearby, but why should we think the closer inspection more accurate than the other?
Philosophy 100 Essential Thinkers
Philip Stokes
I dove into work showing that highly credentialed experts can become so narrow-minded that they actually get worse with experience, even while becoming more confident—a dangerous combination. And I was stunned when cognitive psychologists I spoke with led me to an enormous and too often ignored body of work demonstrating that learning itself is best done slowly to accumulate lasting knowledge, even when that means performing poorly on tests of immediate progress. That is, the most effective learning looks inefficient; it looks like falling behind.
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