@PhilosophyQuotz tweeted this:
If a victory is told in detail one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat. – Sartre
Tim Kastelle passes on this rather nice Diderot quote from the new book Superconnect: Everything is linked together… beings are connected with each other by
A while ago I wrote about action theatre. It was inspired by Bruce Schneier’s term security theatre, to describe tiresome security measures at airports etc
(This is the second in a series of somewhat ranty posts I started the other day. General theme: is a lot of the fuss and
Dominic Campbell’s challenge to clumsy government procurement has the best title of the year – It’s Time People Got Fired for Hiring IBM. The rest
Tom Wujek’s TED talk explores how business training limits creative thinking. (Click here if embedded video isn’t showing.) Hat tips: Rob Paterson and Screw Work
I reread something I wrote back in 2006 about Ellen Langer’s work on mindful learning. She makes this point:When people overlearn a task so that
Tim Kastelle has a good post about Empathy and Innovation. I’m fond of talking about “relationships before ideas” and Tim seems to be in similar
I’ve long thought that a clipboard was a powerful prop. I only have to hold one and I start to feel more officious. So it’s
Nice report on research from Scientific American: Setting your mind on a goal may be counterproductive. Instead think of the future as an open question.
Jocelyn Glei writes about What we can learn from babies. She talks about the kind of meditative state in which a particular kind of creative
James Gardner left his bank job a few weeks ago to work for the DWP. It may be my imagination but it seems his blogging has become spunkier since then.
Two nice videos exploring how complexity emerges from simple interactions. (Click here if you can’t see the embedded clips.) Complexity depends on how connected the parts are to each other.
Mark Lloyd gives some generous feedback on the Open Sauce Surgery session with James and me. Thanks Mark and congrats on getting your blog off the ground. What I would
Government seems to reverence a particular kind of cleverness. The lawyerly sort, that can write precise reports and prescribe best practices. I would dearly like to see some of the
