Read 01.
I just finished the audiobook of Range by David Epstein.
I listen to audiobooks at 1.5 speed and while I'm walking or cooking dinner. It makes talking notes, looking up references hard. Mostly, that doesn't matter. With this book it does because I want to dive in deeper.
The general idea that a broad array of knowledge feels like, well, of course. Both for and individual and a team — where the benefits of a diverse team have been well documented. This book provides more detail on this benefits and goes well beyond a sort of “and this is why you should take your general education classes seriously” type of advice. It also provides support for how we might make up teams and establish commu ovation channels around projects. How we might hire. And how we might bring people together to look for solutions.
As someone who works with communities to make change, I'm particularly interested in how to build things like analog and lateral thinking in to the mix. How to make games out of the concept of withered technology. But I need to know more first. Which means a copy of the physical book is on its way to me.
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