When facing a crisis we tend to respond to our anxieties in a manner that often result in actions which often undermine our real interests, as these actions are not always the most effective way to gain the upper hand in the long run.
Experiments are good — only if reversible.
If our experimentation becomes permanent, that’s not an experiment, but a decision.
Problem is we sometimes forget to make that distinction.
And we end up either being afraid to experiment because we think it will become permanent, or we end up making decisions which are permanent, when we think we are [...]
How do we assess data? What are we biased to see? How many times we miss the obvious?
From Jack Uldrich’ blog:
“Consider the case of Abraham Wald. During World War Two, he and a team of researchers were charged with protecting Allied bombers from German guns. As part of their work the researchers diligently recorded [...]
Deconstructing authority in social context of a wired world
Clay Shirky continues to provide insightful comments about the changes permeating our society in the context of the fundamental changes brought forward by social media.
Algorithmic authority is the decision to regard as authoritative an unmanaged process of extracting value from diverse, untrustworthy sources, without any human standing [...]
Alain de Botton examines our ideas of success and failure — and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments. Is success always earned? Is failure? He makes an eloquent, witty case to move beyond snobbery to find true pleasure in our work.
There are at least two kinds of games.
One could be called finite, the other infinite.
The finite game is played for the purpose of winning, and thereby ending the game.
An infinite game is played for the purpose of continuing the play … and bringing as many persons as possible into the play.
Finite players play within boundaries; [...]