Robyn E. Blumner wrote an editorial for Free Inquiry (Volume 42, No. 4, June-July 2022) titled Identitarianism Is Incompatible with Humanism.
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Doug Garnett wrote a blog post titled Complexity and Experimentation: The Rebellious Bee (12 June 2025).
« Rory Sutherland tells a story about bees… Without rebellious bees the hive would be less resilient and less likely to survive… All complex adaptive systems are also only healthy when exploitation of what is known (e.g. pollen sources) is balanced with time exploring things critical to future health. It is for this reason that JP Castlin talks, then, about the need for continual “safe-to-fail” experimentation in business as all companies are complex adaptive systems. All companies, then, require continual exploration if they are to be healthy. Of course, he calls these “safe-to-fail” experiments because they must be affordable enough — or constructed in safe enough ways — that they don’t sap the company’s ability to survive. »
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Carl Hendrick wrote an article titled Ultra-Processed Minds: The End of Deep Reading and What It Costs Us (17 April 2025).
Continue reading “The End of Deep Reading and What It Costs Us”Surge in community college fake students defrauds financial aid and displaces legitimate students.
Bots gaming the financial aid system are overwhelming enrollment for asynchronous online classes. Legitimate students are unable to enroll as classes fill quickly, delaying graduation. Once the classes start and fake students disappear, some classes are cancelled due to insufficient enrollment.
Here are two articles on the subject:
Continue reading “Surge in community college fake students defrauds financial aid and displaces legitimate students.”Fat Over Lean Rule in Oil Painting
George O’Hanlon wrote an article for Natural Pigments titled Fat Over Lean: Essential Guide to Oil Painting Techniques for Artists (11 August 2024).
Continue reading “Fat Over Lean Rule in Oil Painting”Complexity Debt
John Pavlus wrote an article for Kellogg Insight titled The Hidden Cost of Successful Experiments about the research of Yudi Huang, Sebastien Martin, and Zhiwei (Tony) Qin.
Continue reading “Complexity Debt”Frank Ryan’s Flesh Tone Color Palette in Oil Painting
Frank Ryan wrote an article for Natural Pigments titled Verona Green Earth for Vibrant Flesh Tones Paints (2 May 2023).
Continue reading “Frank Ryan’s Flesh Tone Color Palette in Oil Painting”Hiring Leaders: Am I looking forward or backward?
Josh Bersin and Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic wrote an article for Harvard Business Review titled Hire Leaders for What They Can Do, Not What They Have Done (27 August 2019).
Continue reading “Hiring Leaders: Am I looking forward or backward?”Businesses need to be comfortable with ambiguity as ambiguous definitions are often those which most accurately capture broader patterns
Doug Garnett wrote a bog post titled Complexity vs Precise Language in Business (31 March 2025).
Continue reading “Businesses need to be comfortable with ambiguity as ambiguous definitions are often those which most accurately capture broader patterns”Liminal Thinking
Dave Gray wrote a blog post titled Liminal Thinking (9 November 2014).
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