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Transcending language Andrew Sullivan quotes Christian Wiman:I don't think you can spend your whole life questioning whether language can represent reality. At some point, you have to believe that the inadequacies of words you use will be transcended by the faith with...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on January 7, 2013
Steinbeck on writing Maria Popova spots this great comment from John Steinbeck.If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on March 13, 2012
The perils of the complicated Chris Corrigan has a good post on how complicated models masked the complexity of the financial system - and made the perpetrators very rich at everyone's else's expense. In these times, we need more honest leadership. Not leadership based on...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on February 15, 2012
Tyranny of the Explicit Following up on yesterday's post, a second of our tyranny coatpegs it the Tyranny of the Explicit. Viv talks about it here and it's something I've referred to a few times before. Bureaucracies tend to be better at adding...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on November 30, 2011
The divided (and interconnected) brain Towards the end of this RSA Animate video, psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist quotes Einstein:The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant.McGilchrist suggests we now honour the servant, trapped in a left brain mode...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on November 1, 2011
We're all talk radio hosts now... Jonah Lehrer suggests thinking can often serve to confuse us. He reports research where students had to rate different jams. They managed to come out with similar preferences to expert jam tasters. Then a similar group got the same exercise,...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on September 15, 2010
Podcast: The tyranny of the explicit Yesterday, I recorded a conversation with Viv McWaters and Roland Harwood on the theme of The Tyranny of the Explicit. We explore how the need for certainty in an uncertain world, the over reliance on metrics and the demand that...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on March 30, 2010
Bureaucracy, targets and pseudo-surveys Mark Fisher picks up some fairly grim examples of bureaucratic bullying in the public sector and the abuse of targets and surveys. Just reading the absurd form-filling required if a student arrives late to a lecture makes me want to...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on March 3, 2010
Tangential creativity Quite a few people have pointed to John Naughton's article: Lasers would never have shone if Mandelson had been in charge. Naughton challenges the government's plans to restrict science funding to applicants that can show "demonstrable benefits to the economy,...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on January 18, 2010
The Tyranny of the Explicit Bob Sutton has an interesting post linking to this New York Times story: After Bankruptcy, G.M. Struggles to Shed a Legendary Bureaucracy. A manager relates how the company's legendary bureaucracy is being cut down to size: his massively extensive performance...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on November 23, 2009
The tyranny of the explicit in marketing I'm continuing to have thoughts in response to reading Herd, probably because Mark Earls' position so often reverberates with mine. There's nothing like having one's prejudices supported. Like me, Mark enjoys taking potshots at market research. In particular, the effort...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on March 13, 2007
Stillness I enjoyed Nick Smith's latest post, Don't just do Something, Stand there! Here's the nub of it, but I recommend the whole thing.By valuing thinking over awareness we mistake knowledge for understanding, and therein lies our downfall. It is...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on January 20, 2007
Mirror, mirror.... A big hat-tip to Stefan Liute for his post The biological hardware for culture. He points to this article from the NY Times: Cells that read minds. Here are a few morsels of the Times piece:"We are exquisitely social creatures,"...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on January 16, 2006
The great return I'm thoroughly enjoying Rob Paterson's bold series of posts on the theme The Great Return. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Well illustrated, forthright, thought-provoking and wise. I was struck by this observation in...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on January 16, 2006
City branding Katherine Stone is underwhelmed by Atlanta's new tagline (Atlanta: Every day is opening day). Christina Maynard at Ricksticks feels the same about the new logos for Toronto and Atlanta. I'm yawning too. My two (maybe five) cents: when people talk...
Posted by Johnnie Moore on November 13, 2005

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