Richard Hamming on working with the door open
… what you consider to be good working conditions may not be good for you. There are many illustrations of this point. For example, working… Read More »Richard Hamming on working with the door open
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Donella Meadows on systems thinking: elements, interconnections, purposes
You can understand the relative importance of a system’s elements, interconnections, and purposes by imagining them changed one by one. Changing elements usually has the… Read More »Donella Meadows on systems thinking: elements, interconnections, purposes
James Yorke: fifty years of chaos (theory)
Almost fifty years ago, when my student T. Y. Li and I wrote a math paper titled “Period 3 Implies Chaos”, I could not predict… Read More »James Yorke: fifty years of chaos (theory)
Statistical Rethinking: Richard McElreath on Bayes in the Garden of Forking Data
I’ve had a few goes at understanding Bayesian statistics and feel like I haven’t really grasped it. This video from Richard McElreath (lectures accompanying a… Read More »Statistical Rethinking: Richard McElreath on Bayes in the Garden of Forking Data
Building the Future in Twelve Easy Pieces
The five– make that the twelve things you need to build an effective organisation for change:
Crossing the Chasm: Geoffrey Moore on the technology adoption lifecycle
This is the best summary presentation on Crossing the Chasm that I’ve seen, from Moore himself. He discusses the diffusion of “technology products” (i.e. things… Read More »Crossing the Chasm: Geoffrey Moore on the technology adoption lifecycle
Ian Leslie on story as intellectual anaesthetic
Historians have an increasingly strong incentive to tell dramatic stories which gain attention and make ‘impact’. But anyone in the business of reporting on reality… Read More »Ian Leslie on story as intellectual anaesthetic
Lant Pritchett on the limits of information technology; or, The Moore the Merrier?
I think people have been seduced into thinking that the advance in information technology is going to bring more change to the future than I… Read More »Lant Pritchett on the limits of information technology; or, The Moore the Merrier?
Ian Mortimer on the network effects and feedback loops of medieval travel
The expansion of personal horizons mentioned above has implications for the whole of society: people’s geographic knowledge increases exponentially the further they ride or walk.… Read More »Ian Mortimer on the network effects and feedback loops of medieval travel
“It’s quite something.”
Paul makes a thing Here’s Paul McCartney turning a few things into Get Back. Notice how George Harrison goes from yawning and fiddling with something… Read More »“It’s quite something.”