I spent this morning teaching the use of narrative approaches to lessons learnt programmes and more generally to decision making. I was doing this within the context of a naturalistic (work with way people are) as opposed to an idealistic (this is how we think people should be) perspective on sense-making in general and knowledge […]
I went to see the ENO’s production of Glass’s second opera last night. It covers Ghandi’s period in South Africa from Tolstoy Farm to the New Castle March. There is just one performance left (tonight) so if you are in London and can free up the time I strongly recommend getting a ticket. It normally […]
A really excellent post today in Neurophilosophy on Dostoyevsky. The picture is of his statue outside the main Library near Red Square in Moscow, taken on my recent visit. Back in school days I won a County Prize for contributions over and above the academic. It was a £60 book token. Now the idea was […]
It is a cliché to say that the internet opens up possibilities for new forms of organisations, but cliché or not, it is true. One of the ways this works is to transform what used to be known as the craft industry. If you walk around the streets of London you will encounter the various […]
I was engaged in a discussion earlier this morning with someone who feels that knowledge has to be written down if it is to survive the retirement or other loss for other cause of employees. Part of the exchange involved discussing understanding knowledge creation and use in call centres. This reminded me of a story […]
There is an old joke that I repeat from time to time (well that is the essence of an old joke). It goes like this: A: Do you think computers will exceed humans in intelligence in the future? B: Yes, because we are planning to meet them half way During the last century we got […]
I am reading Mary Douglas’s excellent little book Thinking in Circles. To my mind she is of the most original and interesting anthropologists of all time. Her books are classics, but on this occasion she has stepped out of her domain of expertise to deal with a particular form of story. She apologies for her […]
An interesting quote here from Cognitive Daily. When a suspect confesses to a crime, it’s often seen as a clear victory for the prosecution. But what if the confession was coerced? Under the emotional strain of an interrogation, it happens more often than you’d think. In response to the problem of coercion, many police departments […]
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