Richard Feynman on True Knowledge

The difference between “knowing something and knowing the name of something.”

Photo of Richard Feynman in 1959. Image Source (public domain)

Sunny Balwani did not know much about engineering. This normally would not be a problem — most of us don’t know much about engineering. But Sunny was the president of Theranos, a medical startup in the early 2010s promising to make cutting-edge blood tests, devices which would…