This book almost perfectly matches my own world view – now, perhaps that is simply an instance of one of the dangers warned against in the book – confirmation bias – but I would like to think that it is more than that.
George McConnell
Games People Play
We all do it – whether it is keeping something a secret or “putting on a face” when we are feeling down or slapping on the makeup to make us look better than we do (NOT something I indulge in personally 😉) or dressing for dinner – its all an act – a game we play to hide the ‘reality’ in one way or another from someone or other.
Its Not Just The Big Picture
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
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.