Snippets

Emergence (Steven Johnson) p31, 52

Ant colonies are self organising, the queen is not an authority figure, there is no hierarchy. She...

Oct 28th

Emergence (Steven Johnson) p52

Nonequilibrium thermodynamics - “environments where the laws of entropy are temporarily...

Oct 28th

Emergence (Steven Johnson)

Disorganised complexity - millions of variables at play, attempt to understand using statistics and...

Oct 27th

The black swan (Nassim Taleb) p 268

“We dont have the luxury of sitting down to read the equation that governs the universe; we...

Oct 13th

We make choices...it's what we choose...

I was watching a movie the other night called “Wonderboys”. Towards the end there was a...

Oct 12th

The black swan (Nassim Taleb) p 226

“A network is an assemblage of elements called nodes that are somehow connected to one another...

Oct 9th

The black swan (Nassim Taleb) p222

“Capitalism is, among other things, the revitalization of the world thanks to the opportunity...

Oct 9th

The black swan (Nassim Taleb) p 210-11

“We can have a clear idea of the consequences of an event, even if we do not know how likely...

Oct 9th

The black swan (Nassim Taleb) p 196-7

THE MELTING ICE CUBE Forward thinking - from ice cube to puddle -devoid of complexity you can...

Oct 7th

The black swan (Nassim Taleb) p 189

Daniel Dennett - Planning is human nature (consciousness) “…the ability to project into...

Oct 6th

The black swan (Nassim Taleb) p 171-9

POPPER’S THE MISERY OF HISTORICISM “…in order to predict historical events you...

Oct 6th

“…unless the employees themselves see a problem, they...”
— Andrew Gent...

Oct 6th

The black swan (Nassim Taleb) p 151-3

TETLOCK’S STUDY ON EXPERTS AND PREDICTION “…why experts did not realise that they...

Oct 5th