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How Naming Things Make You Smarter

This video is about how my son finally got smarter than our dog.

 

 

 

via YouTube. 

It is also about how language (and naming things) leads to wisdom, progress, and innovation.

New XKCD Book - Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words

In "Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words," things are explained using only drawings and a vocabulary of the 1,000 (or "ten hundred") most common words.

Here is an example called Up Goer Five.  It is a surprisingly simple explanation of Rocket Science.

 

via XKCD.

Naming things and creating context are foundational tools of innovation.

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

Do you want some constructive criticism?

  

from Dilbert by Scott Adams.

 Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• The AI Revolution: Road to Super-Intelligence. (Wait But Why)
• Pentagon Announces New Strategy for Cyber-Warfare. (NYTimes)
• Using People to Fight Cyber Attacks Is Like Bringing a Knife to a Gunfight. (NW)
• What $750,000 Buys You in New York City. (NYTimes)
• The 70 Coolest New Buildings in the World, According to Architecture Fans and Experts. (BI)

 

Trading Links:

• Apple Is Basically a Small Country Now. (The Atlantic)
• Amazon Prime Is Big, But How Big? (USA Today)
• The 7 Most Data-Rich Companies in the World? (LinkedIn)
• How a London Man May Have Helped Trigger the 'Flash Crash'. (BigStory)
• Hedge Fund Manager, Griffin, Said to Make $90,000 per Hour - Even When Sleeping. (Biz Insider)