InPhilosophy Social Comment Technology

Our Mind is a Blurry Image of Life

The hope is much, for having gotten this far is to be forewarned and thus forearmed. In that we do well to employ scepticism when listening to a human interlocutor. Because even the best of us are filling in the blanks in our memory.

18 February 2023
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InPhilosophy Psychology

An Opportunity Afforded

This is why some people will look at a library and see a wealth of opportunity, while others will see the same space and same books and apprehend only barriers to entry or exclusion from a world in which they think they have no part to play.

4 January 2023
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InPhilosophy Privacy Social Comment

The Subjective Nature of ‘Nothing to Hide’

Whether you have something to hide has far more to do with who is looking than what they can see.

30 July 2022
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InPhilosophy Psychology Social Comment

Pseudo-Profound Bullshit

In this context, we do well to reject the bullshitters of this world, but we do our understanding a disservice if we are sceptical to a fault.

23 May 2022
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InHistory Philosophy Social Comment

They Are Teachable

One of History's lessons is that once a group is deemed unteachable they will be placed in the category of an ever present threat to the preferred social order.

28 February 2022
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InBusiness Leadership Philosophy Response

Response — Sitting with Ambiguity

Sit with ambiguity, but be aware of when a seemingly circular conversation is enhancing a definitional understanding and when it is just a group of individuals unable to comprehend ambiguity hoping that a drawn out conversation will nail down the problem.

12 February 2022
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InPhilosophy Technology

Moxie and the Server

To determine if the statement is 'true', we don't need to poll everyone — only to understand the category of the statement.

17 January 2022
Read Time9 mins

InPhilosophy Technology

Fourth Way – Living in Harmony with our Online Presence

Instead of these three paths, the Fourth Way seeks to provide an alternative in which a student can seek to find a sense of mastery while still living their everyday life.

27 September 2021
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InPhilosophy Social Comment

The Ability To Ignore

Since the earliest days of our evolution on the savanna, our visual and aural senses have been attuned to ignore content.

4 August 2020
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InPhilosophy Social Comment

Shape of Things to Come

A striking feature of Wells' book is the way in which he prefigured 'cancel culture' in the thinking of his fictional social scientist.

15 July 2020
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InPhilosophy Social Comment

Skepticism and Wonder

In the vast ignorance of a society absent of sceptical enquiry, evil festers and spreads, like the coming of night, and all foul things come forth.

10 July 2020
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InPhilosophy

The Problem of Over Correction

While many will cheer and even demand over correction, given the 'historical injustice,' many questions remain unanswered.

19 June 2020
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InPhilosophy

The Void

I love to give back to those who give so much to me, but sometimes this sucks all my powers of concentration. This is the height of mental indigestion.

17 June 2020
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InPhilosophy

The Over Consumption of Doubt

For the ancients, doubting was the end of a lifelong quest for truth. For moderns, it has become the beginning rather than end of speculation.

16 June 2020
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InHistory Leadership Philosophy Social Comment

Media Archipelago

Pushing back on unorthodox views has given rise to 'wrongspeak,' 'the things we believe to be true but cannot say,' creating a Media Archipelago.

10 June 2020
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InPhilosophy

The Perfect Moment

Though it is not clear if this is the poet or the urn speaking, what is clear is that the passage seeks to transcend visual value.

7 May 2020
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InPhilosophy

‘Oh, the humanity!’

The past, which comes flooding in, transports us to a moment which is both frozen in time and animated by our thinking. 'Oh, the humanity!'

6 May 2020
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InPhilosophy

Catharsis

At times, writing alone is not action enough to free my thinking from its melancholy trends. In such times I turn to that most lyric of the muses, Euterpe.

5 May 2020
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InBusiness Leadership Philosophy

‘I’ and ‘Me’

The notion that the 'significant symbols,' found in the harmony between the projected and received understanding of the gesture which transports meaning between employee and manager, are not fixed, but are subject to continual recreation allowing infinite flexibility when assessing project planning.

12 June 2017
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InBusiness Leadership Philosophy

No One Is To Blame For Misbehaviour

Variability in people leads to variability in the anticipated behaviour. In this context there is always a degree of unpredictability in behaviour.

19 May 2017
Read Time10 mins

InLeadership Philosophy

Leadership: A Human Encounter

In the postmodern age, we are surrounded by more heroes than in a Homeric epic, with football players, life guards and even movie stars being thrown into the mix.