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Monthly Archives: May 2012
Sugar Solution
In a workshop this week I learnt a bit of the brain science behind ‘fast thinking’ and how it leads to ‘unconscious bias’. I suspect it’s just a different way of framing what I think of as my ‘Bayesian brain’: … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Psychology, Science, Work
Tagged Bayesian Brain, Candyfloss, Confirmation Bias, Fast Thinking, Glucose, Slow Thinking
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Sun’s Out
Sun’s out Scooting about What better way To spend the day Than chatting and laughing With my adorable offspring It doesn’t take much to make a great day. Some sunshine and a leisurely chore or two in which to engage … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Odysseus, Poetry
Tagged Kids, Life is sweet, Poem, Poetry, Simple Pleasures
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Narcissi
The path to self-knowledge is long and hard. And who is to say whether apparent progress is more than illusion or self-delusion. But I do become increasingly irritated by narcissism. Forgivable, indeed to some extent inevitable in children, why does … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Life, Psychology, Work
Tagged Get over yourselves, Look in the Mirror, Narcissism, Psychopaths, Self Knowledge
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In the Balance
Why is it we feel a little cheated by art made of everyday objects? Is it because we value the materials as well as the labour? Talking to a Sri Lankan clothing entrepreneur this week, I discovered that in modern … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Life
Tagged Art, Damien Hirst, Dot Paintings, Intrinsic Value, Pigments
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Mastermind
This afternoon, my five year old son announced two of the most important areas of human knowledge to be: 1) Cheese 2) Blasting things apart Along with his detailed expositions on Lava and the function of the nose in Lemon … Continue reading
Flights of Fancy
I found myself in a back room at the British Museum this week, looking at pen and ink drawings. I took a couple of photos of simple but stunning sketches by Picasso and Rembrandt. As a child, I remember being … Continue reading
Life and soul of the party
As something of an introvert, polite company comes best for me in modest doses. Not that I can’t be the life and soul of the party. Just that there’s a finite amount of it I can do. Once my reserves … Continue reading
Terse Verse
If music be the food of love Is poetry a bowlful of life? A question crossed my mind the other day – do I only spontaneously write poetry when I’m cross about something? I’m sure I’ve written happy poems, but … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Odysseus, Poetry
Tagged Grrrr, Musicians live longer, Poem, Poetry, Poets die younger, Terse Verse, Venting
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Of Sheds
Montaigne offers a top tip for he (or she) who would keep themselves sane: That man, in my opinion, is very miserable, who has not at home where to be by himself, where to entertain himself alone, or to conceal … Continue reading
ProductiviDad
Working in South America nearly 20 years ago, I made a breakthrough discovery: if you know an English word ending in ‘ity’, you know the Spanish word if you replace it with ‘dad’. This increased the variedad and utilidad of … Continue reading