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Po-Shen Loh
Associate Professor of Mathematics, CMU, and Founder & CEO, Expii
Ask the Cleanest Question
Design Solutions Like a Mathematician
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Mitigate Risk on All Sides: Solve for the Pyramid
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Amaryllis Fox
Former CIA Clandestine Operative
Making Complex Decisions
A Scientific Method
Lawrence Summers
Former Director, White House United States National Economic Council
Building Mind-Machine Combinations
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Andrew McAfee
Associate Director, MIT Center for Digital Business
Make Progress with Elastic Thinking
Solve Difficult Problems by Looking at Them Differently
Leonard Mlodinow
Theoretical Physicist
How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes
The Scientific Method of the Mind
Maria Konnikova
Poker Player and Writer, The New Yorker
Adopt the Scientist's Mindset
Take a Rational Approach to Seeking and Finding Truth
Richard Dawkins
Evolutionary Biologist

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