The Wall Street Journal ran an article titled Coronavirus Pushes Colleges to the Breaking Point, Forcing ‘Hard Choices’ About Education (April 30, 2020). Continue reading “Coronavirus Pushes Colleges to the Breaking Point”
The Bikeshed Effect: Parkinson’s Law of Triviality
Farnham Street posted an article titled Why We Focus on Trivial Things: The Bikeshed Effect. Continue reading “The Bikeshed Effect: Parkinson’s Law of Triviality”
Confronting indifference toward truth: Dealing with workplace bullshit
Ian P. McCarthy, David Hannah, Leyland F. Pitt, and Jane M. McCarthy wrote a paper titled Confronting indifference toward truth: Dealing with workplace bullshit. Continue reading “Confronting indifference toward truth: Dealing with workplace bullshit”
Unknown Unknowns: The Problem of Hypocognition
Kaidi Wu and David Dunning wrote an article for Scientific American called Unknown Unknowns: The Problem of Hypocognition.
« Often, human fate rests not on what people know but what they fail to know. Often, life’s outcomes are determined by hypocognition… Hypocognition, a term introduced to modern behavioral science by anthropologist Robert Levy, means the lack of a linguistic or cognitive representation for an object, category, or idea… [We are] hypocognitive of the numerous concepts that elude our awareness. We wander about the unknown terrains of life as novices more often than experts, complacent of what we know and oblivious to what we miss. » Continue reading “Unknown Unknowns: The Problem of Hypocognition”
Epistemic Trespassing
Nathan Ballantyne wrote a paper titled Epistemic Trespassing for Mind: A Quarterly Review of Philosophy (Mind, Volume 128, Issue 510, April 2019, Pages 367–395).
« Epistemic trespassers judge matters outside their field of expertise. Trespassing is ubiquitous in this age of interdisciplinary research and recognizing this will require us to be more intellectually modest. » Continue reading “Epistemic Trespassing”
The illusion of certainty
Rory Sutherland wrote an article for The Spectator titled The illusion of certainty. Continue reading “The illusion of certainty”
Doug Garnett on tech startup pricing
Doug Garnett wrote a blog post titled Pricing and Complexity (Part 3): The Tech Obsession with Cheap. This post is about the proliferation of VC-backed startups offering “a premium product or service at a discount price,” including Amazon, Uber, Lyft, MoviePass, Dollar Shave, WeWork, Casper, Blue Apron, Spotify, Netflix, and StitchFix. “Yet Not a Stich of Profit to be Found.”
Supermac’s vs. McDonald’s trademark case in EU
BBC News published an article titled McDonald’s loses second ‘Mc’ trademark case against Supermac’s (6 August 2019). Continue reading “Supermac’s vs. McDonald’s trademark case in EU”
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