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
What a pity that Lucy Kellaway’s piss-take on Deloittes’ Little Blue Book of Strategy is behind the FT paywall. Here’s a bit of what you might be missing:On the second
I read this in an email from Greg Hohn, a fellow member of the Applied Improv Network. I would summarize my approach simply by saying that I try to focus
Some smart marketing from Transport for London – well targetted information about something that actually matters to me.
Oli Barrett has two related posts about not over-doing things. In that spirit my blogging activity for today will consist of pointing to them.
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