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culture

Conformity

An interesting montage of ideas and images, reflections from some powerful thinkers on the topic of conformity. Possibly more important than ever in our current socially-mediated, hyper-normative mass communications world…

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culture

Inertia

Systemic bureaucratic failures breed inertia and internal complexity within organisations…

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culture

Innovation

If innovation is in essence “useful creativity”, and creativity itself is perhaps at least partially defined as unguided, reflective practice – the best we can do is to massage the ambiguities and uncertainties into general directions…

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culture

Analog

…our globally interconnected organisational systems are still attempting to hammer the square peg of analog thinking and management style into the round hole of digital transformation…

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culture

Veiled

We suffocate ourselves in the symbols and signs, stories and concepts that we think represent life but in so doing we actually distract ourselves from the simplest fact of just living…

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Philosophy

Stop

We are like the origami cranes which once unfolded reveal themselves as merely being the blank sheets of paper that they always were…

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culture

Narratives

The Universe may be a wily playwright…

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Philosophy

Discontinuous

There exists a vast discontinuity and rupture running through the middle of this world…

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culture

Genus

…the divisions between nations and ethnicities are generally cultivated and propagated by those most insecure and/or selfish amongst us…

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Philosophy

Circular

“…human knowledge must always be content to accept some terms as intelligible without definition…:

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Philosophy

Transience

If we lived forever we might never value what time we have…

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Philosophy

Self-Reflection

On writing for one’s self…