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Mar 8 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
Happy #IWD2022! Let's play a game... Can you spot what's wrong with this list of "intellectual giants" by @farnamstreet? 👀

Men don't hold a monopoly over impacting the world with their brilliant thinking. Here are 10 women that changed the world & their thinking strategies 👇 Image
01. Let's start with the obvious... Marie Curie, the first person to win two Nobel Prizes!

It’s an understatement to say that she profoundly impacted the world with her ideas, and there is a lot to learn from her approach to problem-solving 🧠

nesslabs.com/marie-curie
02. Next is Ada Lovelace, who was wildly imaginative, but also valued her relationships in the scientific community and frequently connected science and literature.

She inspired Alan Turing’s work on the first modern computers in the 1940s 🖥️✨

nesslabs.com/ada-lovelace
03. Jane Goodall, whose patience and curiosity led to extraordinary discoveries about chimpanzees 🐵 (including the fact that they make tools) and made her one of the most influential scientists of our time.

nesslabs.com/jane-goodall
04. Someone else who should be on this list is Katherine Johnson...

Her equations sent the first American into space, allowed John Glenn to orbit the Earth, and let Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin explore the moon safely 🚀

nesslabs.com/katherine-john…
05. Let's go back in time a little bit. Do you know about Aspasia, who Socrates credited as one of his teachers?

She was hosting salons (hi @TheAnnaGat 💙) and her logic, debating skills and eloquent speech attracted philosophers, artists and scientists.

nesslabs.com/aspasia
06. Hard to try to #BreakTheBias without mentioning Simone de Beauvoir, an intellectual powerhouse whose stance against oppression sparked a movement.

nesslabs.com/simone-de-beau…
07. Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to qualify as a doctor in the U.S.

Not only did she defy expectations to become a woman of firsts in her field, she also paid it forward to the next generation of women in medicine 🙏🏽

nesslabs.com/elizabeth-blac…
08. Discovering dark matter, anyone? 🌠

Vera Rubin was a powerhouse in astrophysics, but she rarely gets the credit she deserves.

nesslabs.com/vera-rubin-the…
09. Rosalind Franklin's unbounded curiosity had a global impact while still making time to enjoy the activities that she loved.

There's a lot we can learn from her! 🧬🧬🧬

nesslabs.com/rosalind-frank…
10. Finally, Mae Jemison was the first American woman to orbit the earth.

If that doesn't require some groundbreaking type of thinking, perseverance & courage, I don't know what does 🤷🏽‍♀️

nesslabs.com/mae-jemison-th…
There are so many brilliant thinkers who should be on this list, but I hope this very short list encourages everyone to #BreakTheBias and highlight the impactful work of women across science, technology & philosophy.

Happy International Women's Day!

nesslabs.com/brilliant-thin…

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"What gets measured, gets managed" is one of the biggest fallacies in management circles — a dangerous trope people keep on repeating without ever really thinking about it... 🧵
Original quote from the 1956 paper: "Quantitative measures of performance are tools, and are undoubtedly useful. But research indicates that indiscriminate use and undue confidence and reliance in them result from insufficient knowledge of the full effects and consequences."
Which journalist Simon Caulkin summarized as: "What gets measured gets managed — even when it's pointless to measure and manage it, and even if it harms the purpose of the organisation to do so."
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The reputation of the first ward was so bad, women begged on their knees to be admitted to the second ward.

Some women preferred to give birth on the street—pretending to have given sudden birth on their way to the hospital, so they could still qualify for childcare benefits.
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