Be Resilient, Part IV: The Importance of Measurement
“SOA, Resiliency & Consiliency,” by Stephen DeAngelis, Enterprise Resilience Management Blog, 16 May 2006,...
View ArticleThe New Core sets the New Rules, on Designer Babies
Today’s food for thought: 40% of income is heritable. Only 2% of income as a function of IQ is. Hundreds of gene affect height; blondness can be controlled with four Analysis: Making babies: the next...
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Progress, Science, and Exemplars — or — when it sucks to be young
Some people divide the ways we know about our world into two types, Science and Inquiry. Science typically refers to using falsifiable hypotheses to make predictions about the world. Inquiry refers to...
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Exemplars Around the Blogosphere!
My post (which really is a mash-up of the philosophy of science [pdf], the job market, how academia works, and how science works) has gotten some nice attention Mark Safranski lists it his in...
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This Too Shall Pass
The Big Think has a rather poorly worded article, “Can we reach the end of knowledge.” The article borders are incomprehensibility, because it confuses three things: ways of knowing, which are how we...
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The Humanities, the Sciences, and Strategy
The Servants of Strategy The humanities and the Sciences are siblings. Both serve Strategy. Graduates from the Sciences can usefully serve Strategy to the extent they understand the tools of prediction...
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Four Types of Anti-Science
There are scientists, but this post is not about them. (If you want my career advise for folks who like science, please read the following posts instead: “How Academia Works,” “When It Sucks to Be...
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