Book Club: The Nexus (Part 2) - DaVinci, Florence And Why You Shouldn't Label Your Kids

Disruptors and Curious minds! Welcome to the Thinking On Paper Book Club. This week we're reading chapter two of The Nexus: Augmented Thinking For A Complex World, by Julio Ottino and Bruce Mau. Please Enjoy The Show!

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TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Welcome to book club 1:21 Jeremy's thoughts on chapter 2 2:50 Great thinkers from history 4:21 Da Vinci and the great thinkers 6:40 Florence and the Renaissance 9:57 Don't label your kids 14:40 Einstein, Galileo and Newton

Why are we reading this book?

➡️ The Nexus explores the convergence of art, technology, and science, and how it can help us solve complex problems. You know, how to stop the ice melting, how to unify art, science and technology and safe us from ourselves... complex networks, urban decay, creativity in the age of AI... hell, how to make better tennis rackets and music that doesn't suck.  

➡️ The Nexus is a visually striking book that combines word and image to illustrate the concept of augmented thinking, which is the ability to balance creativity and execution, and to embrace complementarity, where opposing extremes coexist and expand our thinking. 

➡️ The Nexus provides historical examples of how art, technology, and science have interacted and influenced each other, from the Renaissance to the present day... those insights help us build the strategies and networks essential for building the future. Only by understanding the past can we truly know what the future should and shouldn't be. 

➡️ The Nexus has received brilliant reviews from critics and readers, who praised its originality, insight, and relevance. 

➡️ Daniel H. Pink, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of When, Drive, and A Whole New Mind, called it “a spectacular book”.

➡️ Gwynne Shotwell, the President and Chief Operating Officer of SpaceX, said it "stretched my brain and caused me to think differently about both the beauty and challenges of our world.

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