Nice blog post on getting the balance right, inspired by a crazy game of chess. Like the point about the difference between management and control, but in reality that takes a lot of confidence to pull off. Which brings in the value of experience I guess:
As managers, we have a tendency to want things done the right [...]
GIN, TELEVISION, AND COGNITIVE SURPLUS
A Talk by Clay Shirky (
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And this is the other thing about the size of the cognitive surplus we’re talking about
I read an interesting piece on today on how the very best poker players are always learning: “The line that separates a good poker player from a winning Poker player is the willingness to constantly learn, observe, and adapt.” What I also found interesting was the contradiction between perception and self-control: “Successful poker players survive [...]
Someone rang trying to sell lifecoaching as a business opportunity (for a mere
TOWARDS A WORKING NON-LINEAR SCIENCE OF EMPOWERMENT
Spotted the nice story about the lottery winner today, who had both dreamed about a win, and his daughter had been told by a mystery woman that she would win the lottery. That got me thinking for fun about the science of winning and predicting, and the ability of people in this respect, which I’ve [...]
If knowledge is power, what is self-knowledge? And if you have this ’self-knowledge’ how does that interact with traditional knowledge to create value? Hmm, by simply posting on this blog is one simple answer I assume.
Guido blogger brings down Peter Hain, apparently. And the Daily Telegraph agrees.
Sad to hear that primary school students are anxious about the world we live in. I couldn’t agree more, it’s one reason (perhaps) I haven’t wanted to have children, as I don’t want to inflict this world and the people who live in it on them! On the other hand that’s why (maybe) I did [...]