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...year, it did not mean to vote itself a 17 percent cut in advising workload. Surely, if a choice has to be made, Faculty should advise sophomores deciding on concentrations rather than freshmen. In designing the student experience, everyone had the best intentions at the micro level. At the macro level…there wasn’t any macro level. In the absence of unifying leadership, an incoherent program evolved...
...minds over four years to complete, and their effort is apparent: the fields of study required of every Harvard student have been summarily renamed. Fret no longer about that mundane Moral Reasoning final; it’s an Ethical Reasoning final now. And instead of studying history at the macro and micro level, we will divide our two courses between the U.S. and the rest of the world. Even more impressive than these verbal acrobatics, exemptions to requirements have been eliminated; the general education program will have a faculty member at its helm; and, of course, the general education committee...
...World War I and the Wall Street crash of 1987 are all demonstrations that "the world is dominated by the extreme, the unknown and the very improbable." A follow-up to his Fooled by Randomness, about the role chance plays in life, The Black Swan is a provocative macro-trend tome in the tradition of The Wisdom of Crowds and The Tipping Point. Taleb draws on history, philosophy and psychology to suggest that our love for simplistic explanations blinds us into thinking we understand how things work. What to do? Look for ways to foster serendipitous developments (like discoveries--good...
...mechanism by which we will change the face of the Middle East and democratize the region. This was a compelling, unstated, overwhelming, you know, thought process on the part of these folks. This was the way to transform a region that needed transformation. And they thought about this in macro, big terms, sometimes without much understanding of the cultural context that this was all going to occur in. There was a quality of that. There was a quality of unfinished business...
...very eloquent. He writes like a scientist: past events come across as if they were entries in a study or report. Like observational entries in a report, sentences are often choppy and transitions seemed somewhat unnatural. But while the text is problematic on the micro-level, on the macro-level, Zimbardo proves to be a masterful narrator and paces the story at just the right speed. He is also a lucky man: the material and subject matter naturally invites the curiosity of the reader and allows him to overlook Zimbardo’s occasionally poorly worded phrase or tendency...