What I Don't Know Could Fill a Library

What I Don't Know Could Fill a Library

I Know Much Less Than I Think.

Socrates knew more than anyone around him realized when he presciently claimed that his wisdom consisted in his awareness of how little he knew, by contrast with the crowds of people in his day who thought they knew much more than they did.

A review of a new book helped me to recapture today the Socratic sensibility that, in our own hearts, a nobility of aspiration should always be wed to a humility of belief. The book is The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone. It can be found at the link: https://amzn.to/2pTwssT

And the interesting review is here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/books/review/knowledge-illusion-steven-sloman-philip-fernbach.html

Jan Drake

Strategic Technology Executive, Leader, Product/Tech/Cloud Architect, AI Architect, Advisor, RainMaker

7 年

The things that I don't know fill libraries and... this immense new thing called the internet. -- Jan Drake, circa 1999

Paul Martin

Failure enthusiast | Artisanal nudge

7 年

Does! Many.

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