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by M. Mitchell Waldrop

Who uses, recommends or left Complexity, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Head of Consilient Research at Counterpoint Global; adjunct professor at Columbia Business School.
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And so why this book is so, I think still to this day, kind of exhilarating is because you read about these scientists and how they were coming up with ideas that were far from the mainstream, and when we look back on them now, many of them have become much more mainstream ideas. But it was super cool.

Transcript of his interview on The Tim Ferriss Show (#659), published on the Ferriss blog.

2023-03-03·tim.blog ↗

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The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

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