Yu Tang Lee

Management Consultant. Reader.

[Yu Tang Lee @ytlee]

"In scientific work it is more profitable to take up whatever lies before one whenever a path towards its exploration presents itself. [...] if one carries it through thoroughly, one may find even in the course of such humble labour, a road to the study of the great problems." SF

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Any significantly complex discussion that happens on social media or online discussion forums eventually descends into chaos as the cognitive burden of keeping track of the conversation increases significantly. Why haven't we seen improvement in functionality to address this?

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@ejames_c Savage poem. Similar to when I learned about the predisposition for 'gifted' children to suffer from existential depression. To label them gifted feels cruel https://t.co/X7Lg0GHwnq

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One way to think about frameworks – Marie Kondo example https://t.co/Pv8eHIdnYN

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Writing is more than a vehicle for communicating ideas. It's a tool for crystallizing ideas.

Writing exposes gaps in your knowledge and logic. It pushes you to articulate assumptions and consider counterarguments.

One of the best paths to sharper thinking is frequent writing.

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“There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.” - Niels Bohr

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"Disagreements can be productive, while misunderstandings seldom are." - Thomas Sowell, Preface to The Thomas Sowell Reader

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@alexgrantwright Loved your book on Paul Otlet and have a hardcopy of it sitting on my shelf. Just wondering though, is there any particular reason why your book Glut is not available in any ebook format?

[Yu Tang Lee @ytlee]

Paraphrasing David Foster Wallace: Everyone thinks they know what the number three is, until the need to explain it arises. Children may have difficulty when encountering abstraction in mathematics for the first time. Four minus one becomes conversations about four of what?

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@KleInsight You're right, in the sense that the truth can be a little more complex but I'll leave to linguists to figure out - see the Washington Post reprint of the New Scientist article on this topic: https://t.co/OVfhUCTacw

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[Lyall Taylor @LT3000Lyall]

A lot of people mistake for conspiracy theories dynamics that are actually caused by incentives and people being unwilling to risk their jobs/incomes. It leads to self-censorship and people saying and behaving in ways they perceive as necessary to not attract unwanted scrutiny.

[Yu Tang Lee @ytlee]

"The characteristics of each medium call for you to express the same idea in a different way. An email subject line is different from a tweet, which is different from an article, which is different from a speech." -- David Kadavy, Digital Zettelkasten

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[Arvind Narayanan @random_walker]

My university just announced that it’s dumping Blackboard, and there was much rejoicing. Why is Blackboard universally reviled? There’s a standard story of why "enterprise software" sucks. If you’ll bear with me, I think this is best appreciated by talking about… baby clothes!

[Yu Tang Lee @ytlee]

@metrotrains Glen Waverly Line at Syndal Station - 14 June 7.30pm train - 2nd carriage, all windows have been graffiti with white spray paint (on the internal side).

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@camerontw Is it similar to Venkatesh Rao's Milo Criterion: "products must mature no faster than the rate at which users can adapt." He gives some generic examples. https://t.co/xiZUgufCJ1

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The Founder (2016) is a movie about the early days of McDonald's that has a concise and entertaining seven minute segment that also happens to illustrate a number of business strategy and execution concepts. I've broken this down in a short article here: https://t.co/baUll4fps4

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@vgr "When you increase the ease at which people can process information [regardless of content] they come to believe it is more real, they have more confidence in it ... It can be as simple as changing the font contrast between the letters on the page" - @vervaeke_john

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Was reading Robert Heilbroner's The Worldly Philosophers discussing Robert Owen and utopian socialism when I came across an interesting (but unpalatable in a modern context) example of visual management used by an 18th century Scottish cotton mill https://t.co/iNMgDRXOy3

[Yu Tang Lee @ytlee]

The most succinct reason to read Francis Fukuyama's books: “Fukuyama’s model stands as a Newtonian gravitational model of how history works.” https://t.co/zq3NetYV8Y