No Dots in the Echo Chamber

No Dots in the Echo Chamber

We’re not losing our ability to connect dots, kids. We’re giving it away. That reality was driven home by three things that came to my attention recently. Two of them were articles. The third was a website. Here they are, in order: 6 Cognitive Biases That...
Popularity is the New Productivity

Popularity is the New Productivity

When I took my first full-time job (in a major U.S. insurance and financial-services corporation), my boss said to me: “The quality of your work doesn’t make any difference. The only thing that matters is who you know.” It remains one of the most...
Jumping to Contusions

Jumping to Contusions

In the random reading that’s something of an avocation for me, I came across this: “Why The Shape Of A Company’s Logo Matters”. The article purported to present the results of some faux-scientific research conducted by several people, some of...
The Rhetorical Rumble

The Rhetorical Rumble

Naïveté comes in all shapes and sizes. So does academic detachment. And so it is that we have a match-up of lightweights, who’ve now squared off three times in what’s come to be dubbed, The Rhetorical Rumble. For each bout, they enter the ring with...