Attribution Error

October 23, 2011

“A fault in the interpretation of observations is to suppose that every event is attributable to someone.” – W. Edwards Deming, Out of the Crisis Tweet

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A Strategist’s Fiction Reading List

October 21, 2011

One of the chief goals of a strategist is to develop mental models that more closely match reality than those developed by the enemy or competitor. It is not only vital for these mental models to help us perceive situations or events, but more specifically, we must understand the primary agents helping to shape the [...]

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Nassim Taleb on Occupy Wall Street & Hammurabi’s Code

October 18, 2011

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What I’m Reading (10.6.2011)

October 6, 2011

A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100 The Seven Basic Emotions: Do You Know Them? Criteria of a Sensible Grand Strategy Black Swan Manager Returning 23% Can Strategy Be Crowdsourced? Tweet

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Two Different Examples of Self-Organization

September 30, 2011

Self-organization in Hanoi Traffic where there are no enforced traffic laws (top-down hierarchy), yet large amounts of traffic flow continuously. Watch around 0:45 in when the Western tourist attempts to cross the street vs. the local approx. 10 seconds later. Self-organization via an exercise where participants are told to pick 2 people in the room [...]

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Prophets and Leaders

September 30, 2011

History bears witness to the vital part that ‘prophets’ have played in human progress – which is evidence of the ultimate practical value of expressing unreservedly the truth as one see it. Yet it also becomes clear that the acceptance and spreading of their vision has always depended on another class of men – ‘leaders’ [...]

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A Masculine Spirituality

September 14, 2011

“A masculine spirituality would be one that encourages men to take the radical gospel journey from their own unique beginning point, in their own unique style, with their own unique goals — which is what we end up doing anyway, but now with no doubt or apology or need to imitate our sisters or even [...]

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There’s No Part In It

September 2, 2011

“The overall name of these interrelated structures is system. The motorcycle is a system. A real system. …There’s so much talk about the system. And so little understanding. That’s all a motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel. There’s no part in it, no shape in it that is not in someone’s [...]

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I’m Not Dead

August 19, 2011

I know you were probably concerned, or at least that’s what I’ve been telling myself the past two months as I’ve taken a leave of absence from blogging.  I’d like to think my few loyal readers (you know who you are….I don’t…but you do) were lying awake each night hoping the next morning would greet [...]

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Liking is For Cowards

May 29, 2011

From Jonathan Franzen’s commencement speech delivered on May 21 at Kenyon College, There is no such thing as a person whose real self you like every particle of. This is why a world of liking is ultimately a lie. But there is such a thing as a person whose real self you love every particle [...]

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