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Science unveils hidden drivers of stock bubbles and crashes?

Science unveils hidden drivers of stock bubbles and crashes from PhysOrg.com
Many economists believe that investors make decisions rationally, weighing up corporate data and other pricing signals to evaluate gain or risk before buying or selling stocks.
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Posted 22 September 2008 † Stuart § Business ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Crazy chess, makes sense

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 [...]

Posted 03 September 2008 † Stuart § Business § Social software ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

He Got Game

Read the Wired article on a new threat to Internet security, exploiting the routers’ dependence on trust funnily enough (that’s 70s technology for you). For my selfish strategic purposes I particularly liked this quote: “Everyone … has assumed until now that you have to break something for a hijack to be useful,” Kapela said. “But [...]

Posted 28 August 2008 † Stuart § Brain teasers § IT ‡ Comments (0) °

Edge article: Clay Shirkey on Gin, Television & Cognitive Surplus

GIN, TELEVISION, AND COGNITIVE SURPLUS
A Talk by Clay Shirky ()

And this is the other thing about the size of the cognitive surplus we’re talking about

Posted 25 August 2008 † Stuart § Social software ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

How to read your opponent to win in poker & battle

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 [...]

Posted 24 August 2008 † Stuart § Business § Games ‡ Comments (6) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Lifecoaching yourself

Someone rang trying to sell lifecoaching as a business opportunity (for a mere

Posted 23 July 2008 † Stuart § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

The two productions of knowledge paper

TOWARDS A WORKING NON-LINEAR SCIENCE OF EMPOWERMENT

Posted 18 June 2008 † Stuart § Coincidences § Health § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Winning & predicting

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 [...]

Posted 18 June 2008 † Stuart § Coincidences § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Valuing self-knowledge

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.

Posted 10 April 2008 † Stuart § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

The power of blogging

Guido blogger brings down Peter Hain, apparently. And the Daily Telegraph agrees.

Posted 25 January 2008 † Stuart § Main Page § Social software ‡ Comments (0) °