Innovation

A spreadsheet can be impressive but, with a closer look, meaningless

Why people love spreadsheets?

A colleague once told me "Paper is the greatest invention of humankind, because it accepts anything you put on it" I believe digital spreadsheets, then, are an even greater invention, because they not only accept anything you put on them, but they also allow you to easily adjust huge amounts of data to conclude whatever [...]

When prejudice is worse than bad

Everyone has prejudice. And… we like them. The reason, I believe, is simple: prejudice is convenient. Daniel Willingham has shown in his book ‘Why students don’t like school’ how thinking is demanding. And that, in spite of our ability to do so, how we suck at it. Prejudice helps you ‘save’ thinking. In a given situation […]