The actual rate of accelerating technological and organisational complexity has been outpacing administrative and hierarchical aptitude for some time.
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On Leadership
The skills-sets required to obtain seniority are so often decoupled from those skills-sets actually required to perform professionally at that level.
Do you work in IT ? Do you feel like an impostor ? You are not alone – 58% of surveyed IT professionals experience this. I assert that the industry is itself responsible for this subjective dissonance and professional disconnect.
It doesn’t actually matter from within a labyrinth of reflections that all that is being seen is an endless repetition of sameness and continuity: it only takes a pair of mirrors to emulate infinity.
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The Fallacy of Censorship
It is all about a taboo peek-a-boo…
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On Algorithms as against Exceptionalism
Will the enthusiastic cultural and economic act of handing our collective destinies over to an overt and arbitrary algorithmic logic lead to a gradual (or rapid) and self-propagating bias towards “flattening out” of outliers, eccentrics, and authentic innovation ?
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Technology: Singularity and Necessity
If one day we should wake up and find that every single aspect of our lives have become so deeply steeped-in and dependent-upon digital technology that we are irrevocably cast into a secondary or supporting role, should we really be surprised ?
As technologies and hybrid technology-and-human systems continuously insert themselves into our workflows and thought patterns, we become progressively and perhaps irreversibly beholden to them more than they could ever remain subject to us…
We are really not for the most part noticing the depth and extent of the ongoing procedural acquisition of all of our cognitive, interpersonal and administrative (or more broadly speaking – organisational) processes and behavioural patterns by technology…
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Thoughts on Death and Metaphysics
Death must always remain an unreasonable enigma…
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Constitutional Inconsistency
If you know who Kurt Gödel was and understand what a Constitution represents in regards to the logical axioms (i.e. assumptions) made in the formulation of a rules-set (i.e. legal system) and their theorems (i.e. formal legal consequences) underpinning governance and political power, you already know where this is heading…
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B.S. (Bureaucracy Simulator) 2.0
Bureaucracy Simulator 2.0, in stores near you soon…
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