...''We'' are those hosts. (It is a pity the internet, er, ''appropriated'' {{author|Richard Dawkins}}’ coinage the “[[meme]]”, for it captures this idea perfec
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::—{{author|Sidney Dekker}}, {{br|The Field Guide to Human Error Investigations}}
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...ything about Race Gender and Identity}} — {{author|Helen Pluckrose}} and {{author|James Lindsay}} <br>
...arised times, in {{br|Cynical Theories}}, {{author|Helen Pluckrose}} and {{author|James Lindsay}} take on the intellectual foundations of the current strain
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...hout Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond}}. See also {{author|David Goodhart}}’s more thoughtful (but still, on this point, misguided) {{
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An excellent counterpoint, though equally flawed in other ways, is the late {{author|David Graeber}}’s highly provocative {{Br|Bullshit Jobs: A Theory}}, which
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Of a piece with {{author|Charles Perrow}}’s {{br|Normal Accidents}}, {{author|Sidney Dekker}}’s book is compelling in rooting the cause of accidents in p
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*{{br|The Structure of Scientific Revolutions}} - {{author|Thomas Kuhn}}’s magical book.
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...nd if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into you.” — {{author|Friedrich Nietzsche}}, freely (that is, inexpertly) translated by the [[JC]
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But it is equally offensive to those upset by {{author|Jordan Peterson}} and his fondness for pointing out how hard it is to draw
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...f news in a newsletter is the ''primary'' data, the newsletter’s size, its author, its recipients, its publication date, the date it is read — these are all
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{{author|Alan Moore}}, {{br|Jerusalem}}}}[[Systems theory]] eschews the reductionist
Systems are comprised of stocks, flows, and feedback loops. Good primer is {{author|Donella H. Meadows}}’ {{br|Thinking in Systems}}.
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:—{{author|Stewart Brand}}, {{br|The Maintenance Race}}}}
...effect” — formulated by {{author|Benoit Mandelbrot}} and popularised by {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}} — proposes that the life expectancy of an idea is p
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...w, is because everyone in the world mishears the key lyric, including its author, who indeed mis''wrote'' it.
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...mped-up charges, consider instead the [[eBayer’s dilemma]]. This version {{author|Douglas Hofstadter}} once described as the "briefcase came", but Millennial
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As {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}} notes in his fantastically bombastic {{br|The Black
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...f the each legal task is comprised of workaday items (in the same way as {{author|Julian Jaynes}} argued, almost all of what we consider to be “higher-consci
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...ew|}}{{br|The Peter Principle}}, by Dr. {{author|Laurence J. Peter}} and {{author|Raymond Hull}}{{quote|“I don’t know whether the world is run by smart peopl
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*{{br|The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right}} by {{author|Atul Gawande}}
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A gold star to the relentlessly imaginative {{author|Venkatesh Rao}} for this piece of genius: [https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/
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...gy]] that ''we cannot know substance''. Form is ''all we have''. Here is {{author|David Hume}}:
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