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How to choose a problem

In this month’s issue of the Montague Institute Review, I wrote about Mendeley, a collaboration and personal knowledge management service popular with academics (see A new knowledge platform: SharePoint vs. Mendeley). As someone who thinks for a living, I read with interest the most popular reference in the huge Mendeley archive — an article by … Continue reading »

How to educate really smart men

I just finished reading A Beautiful Mind about Nobel prize winning mathematician John Nash — a very sad book. His early, most productive, years were marred by arrogance and social dysfunction. His middle years were consumed by mental illness. Shortly thereafter, I read a profile of Silicon Valley libertarian billionaire Peter Thiel and an article … Continue reading »