Good post from Mind Hacks: When giving reasons leads to worse decisions
Hat tip; @IdeaFestival
I think that business suffers from the tyranny of the explicit. Its desire for measurability and proof makes it focus on the explicit element of
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
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
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
Chris Corrigan has a good post on how complicated models masked the complexity of the financial system – and made the perpetrators very rich at
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
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
I stumbled on this crude graphic that I blogged back in 2004. I was making a point about a specific piece of marketing jargon, “brand
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
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
Alan Mitchell reviews Kevin Roberts’ Lovemarks pitch: In other words, the role of the marketer is to ‘drive’ people to ‘love’ you so much that they no longer use their
I know I’m getting a bit carried away posting today. But I want to share another dollop of James Willis’ generously shared wisdom. I’ve just read this and felt very
I’m just chucking a few small specks of mud at a very big wall here. These loosely related thoughts are on my mind this afternoon. At the end of a
The thing I always worry about with the application of any technique is that some people are always looking for a shortcut to make people do what they want. Matt
