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Pages tagged "how to think"


Funders and Apes: Seven Steps for Constructive Failure

Posted on The President's Desk by Andrés Spokoiny · May 21, 2012 1:57 PM

eJewish Philanthropy.

Friday, I wrote a bit about how funders, like all humans, are programmed by millions of years of evolution to hate failure. But our DNA hasn’t kept pace with the changing times. 

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Funders and Apes: Our Troglodyte Approach to Failure

Posted on The President's Desk by Andrés Spokoiny · May 18, 2012 2:02 PM

eJewish Philanthropy.

Last year, influenced by the hype around Darwin’s 150th anniversary, I developed an interest in evolutionary theory. I read a few books about it, including the masterful Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, and since then I’ve been kind of obsessed. 

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