April 11, 2019
David Haskell
eQuipsadvanced.com – like espresso for your brain – strives to pack a punch and catalyze not only your critical faculties but your sense of humor, adventure, and awe. The aim of this project is to inspire and help nourish advanced modes of thinking, for business and day to day life. Advanced thinkers are courageous…
March 12, 2019
David Haskell
“eQuips” are the practical philosophies of advanced thinkers, distilled through aphorism and crisp one-liners. We are not left to fend for ourselves, bereft of guiding lights. We can read the testaments of those who have gone before us. We can listen to the podcasts of those who press on ahead. We can learn from…
February 21, 2019
David Haskell
As advanced thinkers, we equip ourselves with the wisdom of fellow adventurers. We need not go it alone. Many have gone before us. Many have imparted the wealth of their vision, experience, and openheartedness. They blazed a trail we can advance along, by way of their example. We must not fail to learn what…
February 2, 2019
David Haskell
Dear Reader Welcome back! Readership is a writer’s reward. I appreciate your time and attention! It has been some time since I posted here but this project remains important to me. By way of diving back in, I’d like to revisit my hopes for this website and address the reasons for its existence. What,…
October 25, 2017
David Haskell
The real world is a complicated place – our ideas about it, not so much. Yet we should always be smarter than our ideas! Ideas exist within certain structural contexts, so called “mental models,” or frames of reference. It’s important to be able to look at these structures with an objective and critical eye….
August 31, 2017
David Haskell
“Think outside the box!” we say to each other cheerfully, whenever there is pressure to innovate. The advanced players will quip back: “Which box?” Think outside the box indeed. Fresh ideas come from challenging the status quo. If we keep doing things the same way, we should expect the same results. We need to…
May 25, 2017
David Haskell
Asked how he developed his famous law of universal gravitation, Isaac Newton quipped: “By thinking on it continually.” Contrast this with the myth that it came to him all at once when an apple fell on his head! Albert Einstein attributed his own achievements to his willingness to spend 20 minutes on a problem…
April 27, 2017
David Haskell
Wouldn’t it be great if every conflict or problem we encountered included this cautionary flag? If every project we took on, had a little pop-up box – like our computers do – warning us to “SEEK CLARITY” before proceeding? But it’s something we have to discipline ourselves to do for ourselves! We have…
April 13, 2017
David Haskell
Do you think philosophy is bullshit? Maybe it’s not total bullshit. Philosophy is well and good for kids in school, for instance, but not practical in the real world? We love to joke about philosophy majors flipping burgers for a living, don’t we? Philosophy sounds like a lot of talk and…