The Hyperthinker by Philip Weiss

New thinking for the Internet age

All articles in category: "Hyperthoughts"

  • Dance your Paradigm

    Dec 23rd 2011     By: Philip Weiss
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    At last month’s TEDxBrussels, John Bohannon shared a brilliant thought with the audience.  Why use PowerPoint to make presentations when we can instead use dance to convey difficult scientific concepts, or any other story for that matter?  This refreshing and inspiring idea shows the value of crossing disciplines and generating new ways to understand complex questions. Steve [...]

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  • Soft paradigms and bright kids

    Dec 14th 2011     By: Philip Weiss
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    Last week I was reading an article from the Harvard Business Review by Heidi Grant Halvorson curiously entitled: The Trouble with Bright kids. I enjoyed the ‘takeaway’ from the article, which I quickly shared with my own children Ivan (11) and Natasha (8).  The short of it is that kids who believe that their success [...]

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  • It’s a beta thing

    Dec 2nd 2011     By: Philip Weiss
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    As I am getting started on this new blog, I thought it might be good to share a few thoughts about the approach we are taking.  We already have a ZN blog on which I post from time to time, so this blog is there for me to focus on the topics I am more [...]

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