-
Archives
- December 2019
- November 2019
- July 2019
- December 2018
- January 2018
- April 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
-
Meta
Tag Archives: right
Automatism + Automaticity – First Thoughts
Automatism and automaticity are “real concepts”, but they are not widely used … or at least not widely used everywhere in the same way. One of the fields where these concepts are most widely used is in the broad field … Continue reading → Continue reading
Posted in freezine
Tagged adapt, algorithm, algorithmic, algorithms, app, application, applications, apps, automation, bad, code, enlightenment, evil, evolution, good, governance, government, law, legal, literacy, printing press, propaganda, rational, rationality, results, right, search, search engine, search engines, SERP, software, system, systemic, systems, wrong
Leave a comment
Do You Want To Be Right Or Do You Want To Be Happy?
Did anyone ever ask Galileo this question? Why or why not? Why do some people ask other people this question today?
Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged censorship, cohesion, communication, confidence, depressed, depression, doubt, doubting, fact, facts, false, falsehood, Galileo, group, group dynamics, groups, happy, network, networking, networks, opinion, opinions, question, questioning, questions, right, sad, science, scientific, scientific method, social, social cohesion, social group, social groups, society, support, true, trust, trusting, trustworthy, truth, wrong
Leave a comment
Is the way people are just the way they are, rather than being “wrong”?
A good friend asked me this, and I appreciate that honest feedback very much. My answer: No. People make mistakes. There is nothing special about humans — whether they are acting religiously or whether they are fanatical about following some … Continue reading → Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged advertising, algorithm, algorithms, belief, beliefs, faith, illiteracy, illiterate, literacy, literate, propaganda, religion, religions, religious, retard media, right, wrong
Leave a comment
Preferred Fantasies
One way I can usually tell if I have “won” an argument is if/when the other person stops arguing. They usually say something like “I’ve got to do X” — meaning to imply something like “I don’t have the time … Continue reading →
Continue reading →
Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged correct, correction, corrections, fantasies, fantasy, idea, ideas, illusion, illusions, mistake, mistakes, right, wrong
Leave a comment
Brands are Real-World Manifestations of Corporate Ego
Why are strong corporate brands prized, but strong individual egos despised?
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged bad, brand, branding, brands, company, corporate, corporation, corporations, ego, good, identity, image, individual, individuals, right, wrong
Leave a comment
How to mash up the Serenity Prayer with a little humility
I have never really liked the serenity prayer, but primarily because the logic seems wrong in the way it is often quoted (there are some things which I do not feel able to accept, but also do not feel I … Continue reading →
Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged ability, accept, bad, change, courage, empower, empowerment, evil, false, God, good, humble, humility, intellect, intelligence, judge, judgement, knowledge, Niebuhr, power, right, serenity prayer, true, understand, understanding, vice, vicious, virtue, virtuous, wisdom, wrong
Leave a comment
When the whole world is reading, the whole world is writing, will anyone still be wronging?
I am a big advocate for transparency, but I have also long been burdened by the weight of my past decisions — “if only I woulda…”. I have been writing for years, but my children will probably end up writing … Continue reading →
Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged bad, evil, good, information, literacy, read, reading, record. records. recording, right, write, writing, wrong
Leave a comment
Are there people who need an incentive to practice decent behavior?
Why?
And just from a practical point of view: How would / should that work?
Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged bad, behave, behavior, decency, decent, good, incentive, incentives, indecency, indecent, motivate, motivated, motivation, motivator, motivators, right, wrong
Leave a comment
Irrefutable failure of a prophecy does not cause true believers — people who have committed themselves to a belief both emotionally and by their life choices — to reconsider
Paul Krugman makes an astute observation: Back in the 1950s three social psychologists joined a cult that was predicting the imminent end of the world. Their purpose was to observe the cultists’ response when the world did not, in fact, … Continue reading →
Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged belief, believer, believers, debt, fail, fails, failure, Google, interest rate, interest rates, Internet, Pope, results, right, true believer, true believers, web, World-Wide Web, wrong
Leave a comment