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Je fais partie des premières générations d’étudiants de lycéens à avoir été autorisées à utiliser une calculatrice électronique au baccalauréat. J’ai donc connu les deux systèmes: la règle à calcul et les tables de logarithmes versus la calculatrice électronique. Autant … Continuer la lecture →
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The musician and comedian Martin Mull has observed that “writing about music is like dancing about architecture”. In a similar way, there's an inherent inadequacy in writing about tools for thought. To the extent that such a tool succeeds, it expands your thinking beyond what can be achieved using existing tools, including writing. The more transformative the tool, the larger the gap that is opened. Conversely, the larger the gap, the more difficult the new tool is to evoke in writing. But what writing can do, and the reason we wrote this essay, is act as a bootstrap. It's a way of identifying points of leverage that may help develop new tools for thought. So let's get on with it.