The devil is in the detail
Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves
Big things come in small packages
The longest journey begins with one step
George McConnell
The Great Partnership
This book by the Chief Rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, is one of the most compelling on the subject of science and religion that I have read in a long time.
Understanding Backwards
It was Søren Kierkegaard who said that (and I paraphrase) life can only be understood backwards however we must live it forwards. Although I have been aware of that quote for quite some time it is only recently that I have begun to understand the real nature and truth of it.
Cognition and Things
Systems and Things
Library Archive
The posts in this blog are – obviously – about books that I have read, would like to read or am reading at the moment. There are, clearly a whole host of books that I have read in the past that I won’t necessarily cover in this blog as individual entries.
Living in Parallel Worlds
Reading the book Anathem by Neal Stephenson has got me once again thinking about the many different worlds that we each live in. I have briefly mentioned this in a previous post, however now is a good time to expand on some of those ideas as well as to pull together what that means in terms of some of the other aspects of friendship and mental models that I have talked about.
A Top Ten List
There is a tendency in this “Information Age” to assume that everything we need to know has been written/created in the last couple of months. This is, of course, patent nonsense however in some subjects there is a rather unfortunate tendency to forget all of the huge wealth of knowledge and wisdom we have from times before … well before 2012!!
I came across an article written in 2001 (which I know isn’t that old) which is actually in a style that is currently very popular – i.e. “N things you need to know about……” – often not a terribly useful way of addressing a subject, but just occasionally someone will get it right. This particular one is called 10 Useful Ideas on Systems Thinking and is well worth a look.
A Long Hiatus
It probably was not the plan to have a brief flurry of activity in this blog followed by quiet for months – but that is how it has turned out – almost echoing what was one of the first posts in the series which stated Prediction is difficult – especially about the future.
Hopefully things are now back on track and I have a number of topics that I want to ponder in coming posts – especially regarding systems thinking and a number of extremely interesting discussion taking place in the Systems Thinking World group of LinkedIn. I would certainly recommend that if you are interested in the concept of thinking in systems that you visit, join and contribute to that group.
Music Memories
As a musician, it is not surprising that many pieces of music are associated with particular events/memories. However, it never ceases to amaze me of the wealth of different ways in which the musical memories come about – sometimes it has been through a concert taken part in, sometimes just listening, sometimes music in the background when something has happened and a host of other ways.