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Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore

I’m Johnnie Moore, and I help people work better together

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My friend Jeremy Sweeney offered this simple idea in a conversation. We keep designing human systems on the assumption that we (and others) are like Mr Spock. We might do better to acknowledge we’re more like Homer Simpson.

Yep.

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