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culture

Inertia

Systemic bureaucratic failures breed inertia and internal complexity within organisations…

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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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Philosophy

Discontinuous

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

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culture

A Rusty Spring

It is as though every Sunday night some unrepentant fiend winds up the vast mechanical and rusty spring of my working week and then, yet again, I must endure the tedious unfurling of this coil through until the welcome arrival and cathartic release of Friday evening. Working life probably only seems to be the wasted […]

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culture

Uncertainty

Do you ever get the feeling that no one really ever knows what they are doing ?

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culture

Reflections: Don’t Feed The Troll

There is no sense in which the normative value of a consensus morality is the central concern for a bully or online troll. Piranha feeding at a corpse do not much care for the reason the corpse lies before them in the water…

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culture

The “Mediation” in Social Media

Social media is neither good nor bad. It is merely another evolution of the participatory self-expression and creative individual cultural absorption which so well characterises historical and technological development…

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politics

Politics

A political stance is really just a way of sharing with the world what you think that people really are…

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culture

Cult of Personality

The cult of the leader, of single isolated points of power and control and is an inevitable consequence and inversion of a fundamental social and psychological misunderstanding…

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culture

Facebook Tackles Fake News

Facebook provides an attempted technical solution in this opening salvo of the online Truth Wars…

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politics

Voting Against Your Own Best Interests

A wily political tactician may influence or deceive through emotional hypnotic suggestion to an unwitting neuropsychological susceptibility…

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culture

Empty World

Some number of years ago now, I remember witnessing a filmic representation of something written by Charles Bukowski, its title eludes me. This was perhaps characteristically, miserably bizzarre and featured some peculiar and wicked strand of thought concerning a discovery that the narrator was the only real person and everyone else he encountered were soul-less, […]