MINUTES of a MONDAY #139
Some snippets to get your week off to a flyer.
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BRAIN FOOD: The Tryanny of the Peer Group
“In 1202, having spent years learning the secrets of Saracen magic from the traders of Bejaia and witnessing algebra in commercial action on the docks of Messina, Leonardo of Pisa - the man we know as Fibonacci - published the book that would transform commerce in Europe. It was called Liber Abaci, the Book of Calculations, and in it Finonacci set out algebraic principles that, essentially, enabled merchants to make money.
He had the jounalistic gift of making the strange seem commonplace and the tangential seem relevant. By posing real life examples of conundrums faced by traders, Fibonacci brought maths to life. Had he written in the language of the academy, the book would have had limited relevance. But because he wrote it for the merchants, Fibonacci revealed the true genius of the great teacher: an ability to escape from the tyranny of his peer group. If he had tried to convince the scholary monks, his work would have been picked apart by vindictive ‘experts’ and its credibility undermined.
Taking the route of all great communicators, Fibonacci sidestepped the gatekeepers and went straight to those who would get the most value from this new technology: the merchants.”
Extract from the book ‘Money: A Story of Humanity’ by
SOUL FOOD:
“In our darkest moments, we don’t need advice.”
Ernest Hemingway
LOL:
Hamish Shepherd on how it take a village to teach a child a lesson:
APPENDIX:
“When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.”
Philosopher Baltasar Gracián
A.O.B.
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