writing
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Years ago, one of my favorite mentors shared his view that if you don’t understand an idea well enough to explain it using an analogy, you don’t understand it. In hindsight, I think this was his version of the quote attributed to Einstein that “if you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” Over
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When I was in college, much of the physics curriculum didn’t quite take for me. As I got later in my academic career, some of the ideas started to make more sense. Now, many years later, I have been seeking to relearn some of the material. To be honest, some of that relearning is probably learning things for
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Churchill’s writing style is one that is particularly approachable and engaging for me. His books on the Second World War, in my opinion, are an incredibly interesting perspective on that arc of history. I have always been fascinated by the contrast in strategic philosophies between Churchill and Eisenhower. I don’t recall ever coming across anything
Musings of an Analyst 