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White Fang and proscrastination
There’s a bit in Jack London’s “White Fang” where two humans bet that the titular half-wolf/half-dog can’t pull a heavily laden sled. And the sled has been out on the ice… more →
White Fang and proscrastination
wrote 1 day ago: There’s a bit in Jack London’s “White Fang” where two humans bet that the ti … more →
Everyone's brain has islands of sense in seas of nonsense #chomsky #chomskyhaters
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wrote 1 week ago: Marilyn Robinson said words to that effect in her “Mother Country” book about Sellafield … more →
Of racism, sexism and the Bicycle Thief #everydayracism
wrote 1 week ago: From 2010. But still you’ll never get it right, cos when you’re layin’ in bed at n … more →
Logorrhea (when people won't STFU). Why? What to do (besides earplugs)?
wrote 1 week ago: I know, I know, pots and kettles (given that it’s a very rare day I don’t post something … more →
Mistakes, I've made a few, but then again, too many to mention #Dewey #mistakes
wrote 3 weeks ago: But socially as well as scientifically the great thing is not to avoid mistakes but to have them tak … more →
Meaningless words (for a bingo game) #innovation #assemblages #iterative #recombinant
wrote 3 weeks ago: Meaningless words which should be mocked into oblivion, but won’t be, because we all of us lik … more →
Not every dissident is a Galileo
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Sometimes people fail not because their ideas are too good, but because they are clearly – to … more →
A note to oneself re: emotional self-regulation
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wrote 3 weeks ago: You can’t effectively go through your ooda loop at speed if you are constantly allowing yourse … more →
Belief in magical transformations! Or the “X factor is for peasants."
wrote 4 weeks ago: The obsession with fame is an interesting phenomenon. In a lazy kinda ill-thought-out speculative wa … more →
The Roy Batty Principle, or the "Empathectomy for fun and profit"
wrote 4 weeks ago: In this life, you are rewarded for not having integrity, compassion, empathy etc. If you defend your … more →
I'd vote for this guy. #bulworth, much?
wrote 1 month ago: So, lots of posts brewing, on the nature of hierarchy, bureaucracy etc etc. In the meantime, via Jon … more →
How on earth does ANYTHING get done?
wrote 1 month ago: No wonder your average entrepreneur so loathes meetings. What was it Dave Berry said – organis … more →
"Blind spots"? Nah, that's all arse-backwards... #cognitivehumility
wrote 1 month ago: I was sat at a lovely Indian restaurant with a good friend last week.* And we were riffing on how li … more →
Tempting as it is... #Dilbert
wrote 1 month ago: I will not be leaving this cartoon anywhere that it could do me harm. … more →
You, me, everybody needs a part-time... job
wrote 1 month ago: Woooooohooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!! OMFG, wooohooooooooooooooooooo Did I exchange a walk-on p … more →
Cartoon that should be rocking all over the world...
wrote 1 month ago: from here, by the awesome Nina Paley. What’s that Skip? You want to … more →
Despair as the "suicide of the imagination"
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wrote 1 month ago: Hat-tip to Sam (not Smith) To view our times as decadent and dangerous, to mistrust the government, … more →
Whiskey & Soda; Love & Sex...
wrote 1 month ago: “There is no less truth than humour in Theodor Reik’s observation that love and sex are like w … more →
Boring for England...
wrote 1 month ago: On being boring Graham’s being boring was aggressive – it was a way of controlling, and exclud … more →
