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I just finished re-reading The Myth of Sisyphus for my philosophy book club. It has been almost twenty years since I last read it. When …
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From John Dewey’s Pragmatic Technology by Larry A. Hickman “What, in Dewey’s view, constitutes responsible …
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Cognition in Practice, by Jean Lave, 1998 “So far I have described a series of dichotomously polarized issues that have sustained …
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A quotation: From the movie My Dinner with Andre ANDRE: Well, I think that’s right! You know, it may be, Wally, that one of the …
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I just want to juxtapose two recent readings by Charlie Stross and Timothy Burke on organizations and institutions. Burke sets up the …
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From an article on networking by John Seely Brown and John Hagel III at HBR. In the classical networking approach, the game is about …
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James Fallows published an interesting essay in the January/February 2010 Atlantic on “How America Can Rise Again.” I think …
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While reviewing my philosophy weblog news feeds I came across a link to the live webstream of a brain dissection on the internet. H.M., …
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I’ve been thinking a lot about the problem of expertise. Alvin Goldman, a philosopher at Rutgers, has written some interesting …
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I wanted to like the new version of The Prisoner on AMC but so far it’s been a failure. A big part of the problem is the absence …
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