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Open Minds and Closed Organisations

Human beings may never be clever enough to harness and benefit from the symmetries of information and energy flows as already exist in the natural world…

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Order and Decay

Entropy and disorder are inevitable, mismanagement of their consequences is not.

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Frustration

Not everyone sees the world the way you do…

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culture

Organisations: Reproducing (through) Sociopaths ?

Do organisations breed misanthropy and functional inefficiency or do they actually breed *through* these narrow-band entropies ?

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On Hoarding Objects, Ideas and Organisational Inefficiencies

Buddhist psychology almost exclusively locates the preponderance of human misery in this world to the many and diverse methods by which we attach ourselves to things in the world, to objects, possessions, people and ideas…

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Over-Engineering the Information Age

Within this technological civilisation the developmental focus and attribution of value is biased primarily towards quantity over quality and method over meaning…

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Theories of Everything

Grand Theories are impressive, but there seems to me to always be something more…

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culture

Retrospective: Uncivilised Economies

Impoverished individuals, groups and cultures are endlessly blamed for their own existential distress but the causes of such inequitable wealth distribution are functionally structural and endemically psychological in nature…

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culture

Flourishing Grassroots Micro-states within Dysfunctional Macro-states ?

Some organisational principles do not scale linearly…

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culture

On the Various Burdens and Trials of (a) Shared Life Experience

Loneliness may be to some extent inevitable; suffering as a consequence is probably not…

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Mediated Genuflection: Pointless Pontification

Self-propagating linguistic methods, full of culturally recursive sound and fury; signifying nothing…

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Epic Fail: No Happytime for Sesame Street Litigation Efforts against R-Rated Movie.

On the Streisand Effect and great legal backfires of history: litigation makes for great PR.