Meet Thomas Edison: Ten Thousand Ways
Three months of schooling, 1,093 patents — and the invention that mattered most was the invention factory itself.
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MentorMindsThe Journal
Notes from the table
The mentors — their lives and philosophies, the lessons and teachings they left behind, and how their beliefs compare, collide, and still speak to the questions we carry.
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Thoughts worth keeping.Meet Sigmund Freud: The Stranger Within
Much of his map was redrawn — but he found the territory: the mind keeps secrets from itself.
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Meet Abraham Maslow: The Farther Reaches
Psychology studied the broken; he insisted on studying the best — and found a hierarchy with your name on it.
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Meet Milton Friedman: Results, Not Intentions
The century's most cheerful debater judged every policy by one test: what actually happened?
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Meet Buckminster Fuller: Guinea Pig B
Suicidal at 32, he decided instead to become an experiment: what can one average man do for humanity?
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