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The Ten Habits of Non-Conventional Thinkers
One of the things I do a couple of times a year is lead a discussion on conventional wisdom. It wasn’t my idea to do this. I was asked a few years ago by someone who was teaching a class … Continue...
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The Fallacy of Worst Case Scenarios
Hurricane Sandy has led to some pretty foolish thinking. Just the other night some high school classmates were involved in some dreary silliness on Facebook about what might have caused Noah’s flood....
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Reality is the Land of Unintended Consequences
I was struck the other day by reports that President Obama last fall opposed the near unanimous recommendation of his advisors that the US arm Syrian rebels. (The USG has now decided, according to...
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Rules I Try to Live By
So the idea for this post began last week when a GovLab fellow was telling me that he thought he was finally figuring me out. (GovLab is a leadership development/innovation program I work with at...
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Being Open to the Serendipity of Sharing
A good friend (almost 40 years younger than I am) asked me last week what I thought of the message in this vide0. I wrote my friend back yesterday and what I’ve posted below is my response unedited....
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Merry Humanity to You!!
Today my mom and I engaged in what is becoming a Christmas Eve ritual for us: noshing on burgers and fries at Gott’s Roadside diner in the Napa wine region of California. We’ve spent Christmas week in...
View ArticleThinking in the Time of Coronavirus–Part 1
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View ArticleAmerican Exceptionalism
I look forward to a return to civil political discussions. I do not demonize those with whom I disagree politically. In fact my views encompass many parts of the political spectrum, and I suspect this...
View ArticleIn Search of Insight
When I was a manager of analysis at CIA, I would hear our customers, often senior policymakers, demand more INSIGHT in our analysis. And I would go back and tell the analysts they needed to produce...
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