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Take a Hike

Tony Mayo

One pattern I noticed while reading about the physicists and mathematicians who invented quantum mechanics and built the atomic bomb was the number of key insights that came to them while hiking and walking. At first I thought this might have been a mere cultural coincidence. Many of these scientists were turn-of-the-century central [.].

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Dogma Danger, III

Tony Mayo

Nobel prize-winning physicist Ivar Giaever resigned from the American Physical Society (APS) because the scientific group had become dogmatic on global warming. Their 2007 National Policy Statement on Climate Change emphasized two sentences by placing them apart in their own paragraph: The evidence is incontrovertible: Global warming is occurring. “Incontrovertible” means “not open to question.” Professor Giaever’s letter of resignation noted the irony of their [.].

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A conversation with executive coaching client Ron Dimon. Part 5

Tony Mayo

This latest podcast is part five of a funny and useful conversation between top executive coach Tony Mayo and his longtime client Ron Dimon. Ron is an expert on the use of information by executives of large organizations. Listen as two experienced business people play with useful ideas in this episode including; Commitment [.]. This latest podcast is part five of a funny and useful conversation between top executive coach Tony Mayo and his longtime client Ron Dimon.