For those who have not yet seen it, this mission statement generator from Dilbert is scary. Back in the 70’s New Internationalist produced a manual self-satirising jargon generator with three dials that was pretty cool, but technology has moved on. Contributions please for the most life like! It took me one minute of re-generation to […]
It’s not long now until I head off for two weeks in Australia and Singapore and I am dreading the time it now takes to get through security at Heathrow far more than the flight. Jessica Hagy uses Venn diagrams drawn on the back of record cards to good effect her latest summarises my feelings […]
As you can see I have explored my HTML guide, consulted our web master and I can now load images: expect a colourful new year in consequence! This post is designed for those who found (or may find) my post of yesterday on identity a bit too metaphysical for a first reading; i.e. those who […]
If we believe that murder is wrong and not admissible in our society, then it has to be wrong for everyone, not just individuals but governments as well. HELEN PREJEAN, Dead Man Walking I have long felt a physical revulsion at capital punishment. I just about remember its abolition in Britain in 1965. Sydney Silverman […]
On a lighter note from my previous post, my thanks to David Tebbutt for this on line quiz that tells you what sort of a super-hero you are. He is Iron Man, my result (self assessed) is below. David’s idea of filling in the test for other people is an interesting one …. You are […]
Bob Hruzek hinted that I had started but not yet finished my discourse on natural numbers. I had elaborated it to a degree here, but have so far failed to fulfill my promise to look at the impact of social atomism on social systems. In parallel I promised to argue that focusing on identity not […]
Three quotes today courtesy of my bloglines feed from the quotation page. One in the title, two below. Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority Thomas H. Huxley When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something […]
One of the other characteristics of any establishment is an unwillingness to accept that they may just be wrong. As I pointed out only a few minutes ago, this has been a major obstacle to scientific innovation, and to change in organisations in general. Richard Standbrook over at SacredFacts points to a Vanity Fair article […]
As I have travelled around the world and presented the Cynefin framework various people have given me the equivalent word from their own languages. Foolishly I failed to write them down at the time so I am appealing here for people to sumbit them by way of comment or email. I know that many of […]
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