by Warp Institute | Jul 19, 2021 | ✍🏼 Essays, 🌟 Premium Content
Think of the person you look up to the most.I have been asked this question many times but have had difficulty answering it. No, that was a lie… only rock stars get such questions from overambitious journalists. The rest of us keep the ones we look up to a...
by Warp Institute | Jul 5, 2021 | ✍🏼 Essays, 🌟 Premium Content
It’s 2006, and I’m in Stanford. Or on the outskirts of the university campus, in the small residential area where retired professors and academics often linger after a long career at the university. It’s a quiet suburb, with typical California,...
by Warp Institute | Jun 21, 2021 | ✍🏼 Essays, 🌟 Premium Content
One reason why people often reject optimism as a cognitive strategy is that it is described as blind – it does not take into account how things really are. In the same spirit, pessimists tend to point out that they are really just realists. Optimism is often...
by Warp Institute | Jun 14, 2021 | ✍🏼 Essays, 🌟 Premium Content
In 1515 Martin Luther was a complete unknown. He didn’t even make the list of the top 100 professors of three rather obscure German universities. Four years later he was Europe’s most published author and well-known both among the clergy and people in general. How was...
by Warp Institute | Jun 7, 2021 | ✍🏼 Essays, 🌟 Premium Content
The Swedish inventor Gustaf Dalén, born 1869 and dead 1937, was one of the most important figures in international shipping in the 20th century. He designed highly reliable, fully automatic systems for all types of lighthouses and buoys, and the lighthouses that his...
