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...
The Empath to Reality

The Empath to Reality

Sincerity is everything. Once you learn to fake that, you’ve got it made. (Variously attributed.) As I get older, I continually wonder about reality, about the nature of reality, about our ability to perceive reality, and whether there is any objective reality...
Regressive Innovation

Regressive Innovation

Are you ready for this? The venerable Hartford Courant (“the country’s oldest newspaper in continuous publication”) ran an article about Aetna’s trimming its workforce (another Obamacare casualty), in which it published this: As it scales back...
Today’s Press Release

Today’s Press Release

I don’t know if you’ve seen this. But I have … everywhere. Baked, AK – October 47, 2016 – World Technology Firm (NYSE MKT: WTF), a leading global provider of innovative solutions and services, today announced a strategic partnership with  Nano File...
Rules Are For Chumps

Rules Are For Chumps

Good news! We now have even more reasons to justify our conducting ourselves like idiots — linguistically lazy idiots at that — and to rationalize our utter disrespect for language and its precepts. That’s right. The editors at Inc., apparently tired of doing...