Historical ironies rarely possess such resonance…
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Philosophy of Organisation
Much is made of the technology of business and indeed of the business of technology. It seems that a glaring omission in all of our digital adventures and (let’s face it – selfish) strivings is that of anything even vaguely resembling an adequate Philosophy of Organisation…
Even a foundationally exploitative business model finds itself entangled with, and dependent on, its object…
On Losing Control
Control may be necessary at a personal and social level but is for all that no less a convenient fiction and a contingent, transient illusion than is self…
Zero-Sum Games
There may be more-or-less hard-wired psychological reasons why we are unable to successfully navigate our shared problem-spaces…
Gullibility and Ignorance
With or without reasons, we tend to fly on autopilot and by instinct alone…
Look before you leap…
Just listen…
Problem-solving Tools
A method for creative problem-solving in which the focus is to some extent removed from the problem under analysis. Displacing the conceptual toolset to intuitively selected texts, papers and articles as a heuristic practice…
An Ethical Vacuum
Nothing quite extinguishes any mythology of accomplishment and pride in the achievements and sophistication of human civilisation than seeing an utterly isolated homeless person sleeping on a ramshackle mattress and amid their few ignominiously-bagged worldly belongings while early morning commuters rush to work around them…
Cognitive Unconscious
There is so very much, much more to your mind and brain than you will ever have full control of or even access to…
What it is about negative psychological or emotional states and narratives which seems to be so very much more contagious than the positive ones; what is the barb on the hook of negative narrative which just “sticks” in consciousness so successfully and resonates so broadly across social networks and cultures ?