In respect of my dislike of Myers-Briggs (see the extended text in the entry below) readers are commended to the skeptics web site This is one of the best sites I know on the web authored by Robert Todd Carroll. It’s one of the few places where you can find lychanthropy and logical positivism on […]
Having just discovered that “The Fellowship of the Ring” was published for the first time in the year I was born, I wonder if we should abandon the idea of Baby Boomers in favour of the title of this entry?
To all those who asked – both on the blog and in multiple emails – yes I will get the book done! Its a monastic environment here. I have two not so good television channels, an hours travel to get to the centre of Singapore, one excellent swimming pool and steep hill to climb every […]
I’m currently reading an excellent book “fear of knowledge: against relativism and constructivism” by Paul Boghossian Prof. of Philosophy at New York University. It is short, witty and devastating in its criticism of the view that all knowledge is socially constructed – something that seems to pervade social sciences, along with a tendency to confuse […]
Why have people converted all customer relationships into processes? Having failed two years ago to get British Telecom to sell all their services in one package, I bought them separately. This including the broadband service which came with a POP server with lots of space to I could keep email backups. However, there have been […]
As some of you know I am now settled in Singapore for three months – second night in staff accommodation at Nanyang University as a visiting fellow in the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies. Aside from lectures and workshops the primary objective is to finish writing the book which will then hopefully be published […]
Right, its time to get started. We have now closed down Cynefin.net so you have have redirected from there. We have a reasonable amount of methods up and available with more coming soon. Papers are up to-date although I have to annotate them. Welcome! I am writing this from the departure lounge at Heathrow en […]
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