On the job training is great but much has been learned over the past thirty or forty years about the cognitive biases (universal tendencies of thought) that can lead us astray.

FORBES: What Sandberg Should Have Done: Made the First Offer

After reading a post on Slashdot about turning your iPod into a Universal remote control I thought it would be cool if I could control my TiVo from the web.

ENGADGET: HOW-TO: Enable web based viewing and remote control over your TiVo

In that case, he was snagging an asset that had long been thought to be headed for General Electric 's NBC Universal unit.

FORBES: Magazine Article

"Universal health care" was neither already established nor inevitable, and we thought the foundation had made a serious philosophical and strategic error in accepting rather than disputing the left-liberal notion that the provision of "quality, affordable health care" to everyone was a proper role of government.

WSJ: ObamaCare's Heritage

He thought, secondly, that liberalism fails if it cannot validate the universal need to belong.

ECONOMIST: Isaiah Berlin