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Inquiry cures ignorance

Posted on March 24, 2025March 24, 2025 by Arto

We are not always great at learning from each other, together with each other, from history, or from other documented bodies of knowledge. We too often subject too poor models too soon to reality. An important reason is that we seem to have an aversion to inquiry.

Posted In Brain, Management, Philosophy, Science

Of memes, machines and modified behavior

Posted on May 15, 2011July 24, 2023 by Arto

I’m reading Susans Blackmores book “The Meme Machine”. It starts where Richard Dawkins left off at the end of his seminal book “The Selfish Gene”. Dawkins of course talked mostly about the gene as the “thing” that evolution revolves around but towards the end of his book he speculated about Continue Reading

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A false dichotomy

Posted on October 24, 2010December 4, 2023 by Arto

It is not so easy to divide a problem into the often used categories “what” and “how”.

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The subjective business of risk assessment

Posted on June 26, 2010December 4, 2023 by Arto

We are very poor at assessing risk.

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Climbing Mt Complexity

Posted on April 18, 2010December 4, 2023 by Arto

Everybody is looking for quick fixes to complex problems, especially if the problem initially doesn’t look all that complex and a fix is needed yesterday. Unfortunately quick fixes (with emphasis on the “fix” part) to complex problems are rare.

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What can we learn from the world’s oldest culture?

Posted on April 10, 2010December 4, 2023 by Arto

The Nhunggabarra people of Australia created the first knowledge-based economy.

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Delegates to conference on global warming froze their butts off

Posted on December 24, 2009December 4, 2023 by Arto

On the role of emotions in leading and promoting change.

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Change leaders and the Nobel Prize

Posted on December 12, 2009December 4, 2023 by Arto

What does it take to be an effective change leader?

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Faith and pain, part two

Posted on November 29, 2009December 4, 2023 by Arto

Organizational improvement should be integrated in the daily operations and the corporate culture and be done in increments.

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The purpose of your next presentation

Posted on November 23, 2009December 4, 2023 by Arto

The only valid reason for communication in a business setting is to change the behavior of your audience.

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Beyond gender neutral bathrooms.

Most epistemologists have found it overwhelmingly plausible that what is false cannot be known.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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