Innovators: Scientists, Entrepreneurs, Engineers, Inventors, Journalists

• Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. Albert Einstein
• Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. Marie Curie
• Avoid the temptation of working so hard that there is no time left for thinking. Francis Crick
• If you think something hard is impossible, you will never even start trying to achieve it. Peter Thiel
• Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. Stephen Hawking
• Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do. Reid Hoffman
• One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are. Steve Jobs
• I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses. Johannes Kepler
• If 50 million people say something foolish, it is still foolish. Rolf Dobelli
• Bias is a learner’s tendency to consistently learn the same wrong thing. Pedro Domingos
• An unlikely event is likely to happen because there are so many unlikely events that could happen. Per Bak (Doug: My own quote in this matter is “improbable things are probable.”
• In teaching, you do not want to cover things, you want to uncover them. The best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of them. Linus Pauling

Two Concluding Thoughts

• When your thinker awakes, you may think that the world looks different. What once seemed obvious may now seem insane. What once seemed insane may now seem obvious. As you evolve your beliefs will too, anchored not in emotion or dogma, but in curiosity and the search for truth. It’s one thing to uncover a good idea; it’s true value, however, it through its execution. The real question is not what you’ve learned, but rather, what will you do with it.

Jim O’Shaughnessy and Vatsal Kaushik

• Jim built O’Shaughnessy Asset Management into a Wall Street powerhouse. His current venture is O’Shaughnessy Ventures, a creative investment firm empowering visionaries across business, tech, science, media, and literature. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller What Works on Wall Street and three other books. He is the former chair of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and host of the Infinite Loop podcast. You can follow him on X @jposhaughnessy. He lives in Connecticut with his wife Melissa. They have three children and six grandchildren.
• Vatsal is an entrepreneur and engineer. He has launched multiple ventures, including the startup Websquill and the book recommendation platform The Antilibrary. He helped launch O’Shaughnessy Ventures and the Infinite Loop podcast. He is currently building Infinite Books. He lives in Dehradum, India with his wife, Maun. You can find him on X @vtslkshk.

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