Eureka
Finding the Line Between Desire and Contentment and Riding It

The goal of this book is one that I am very sympathetic to - to provide a stripped-down description of scientific methods and show their connection to ordinary, fundamentally human activities. What else is science after all but making sense of the world and using our knowledge to solve problems? Wit......more

This book has had a huge effect on my thinking and has formed the basis of my concept to run business like an experiment. "Look" for common problems or inefficiencies, "Think" of a solution, "Test" with prototypes or surveys, and finally "Tell" or in business this would be replaced with sell. REPEAT......more

Eureka is a book by Chad Orzel. The title refers to the famous and possibly apocryphal story of Archimedes running through the streets naked while shouting that phrase. Orzel contends that deep down, we all have an inner scientist waiting to bubble forth. When people imagine a scientist, they usually......more

An interesting read focused on the Look / Think / Test / Tell methodology of interacting with our world. We're all scientists ~ from the earliest humans observing the changing seasons and the stars to modern physicists working at CERN; whether we realize it or not, it's what we do in countless aspec......more

It was better than I expected it to be. It was fun, full of anecdotes from the lives of scientists and important scientific discoveries. It shows how everybody thinks and acts as a scientist in their everyday life. The reason why they don't hate it in these cases is that they don't realize that this......more