Cuban Academy of Sciences
Building in Havana, Cuba.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| How I Learned to Understand the World | Hans Rosling | turning point | An evening meeting with politburo members and academicians turns into an engineered second encounter with Castro. |
How I Learned to Understand the World — Hans Rosling
Source: How I Learned to Understand the World · Readwise highlight
We met in one of the academy’s meeting rooms in its official home, a three-story concrete block.
- Role: turning point
- In the book: An evening meeting with politburo members and academicians turns into an engineered second encounter with Castro. Rosling criticizes questionnaire methodology, then tells the story of Castro in the Sierra Maestra with ‘no questionnaires’, which wins him over; the next morning officials ask him to stay six months.
- Why it matters: The argument about methodology is the hinge that gives him a free hand for the investigation.