Seeing People’s Illusions As Lies Creating Needless Conflict
Posted on02 Dec 2019
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Lies upset people. They start conflicts. When people hear blatant untruths, defenses kick in. They jump to the quick and say they’re... Read More
Social Media Dangers We Don’t See But Foretell Its Future
Posted on27 Feb 2017
Tagscontrol, illusion, internet, negative, New York Times, security, social media, CBS News, Time Magazine, Wired Magazine, YouTube, PTSD, censorship
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People talk of trolls, fake news and acerbic comments on social media. The presidential election brought these even more to the fore.... Read More
Why Problems Occur (Alert #4): Known over Unknown
Posted on15 Jul 2013
Tagswarfare, unknown, project management, prevention, perspective, knowledge, Iraq, illusion, Donald Rumsfeld, Why Problems Occur Series
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The fourth alert I heed as a warning problems might occur is when the known prevails over the unknown. I first experienced... Read More
Natural Mistake of Grouping
Posted on15 Apr 2013
TagsFast Food Knowledge Analogy, simplification, individual, complexity, group, illusion, knowledge, people's differences, Personality, problem solving, Talent, unique
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Look at the figure to the right. The top is a multicolored square, the bottom a gray one. Yet, only one single... Read More
Memorable Pictures: Unconscious Attractions
Allison Bond’s article, “Haunting Scenes” (Scientific American Mind, November/December 2011 edition), discusses the research of Phillip Isola (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) as... Read More
Our Personalities: Crashing Others’ Expectations
As computers and robots are able to perform more of the mental and physical tasks of humans, we are finding they can... Read More
Euphemisms: Preferring Illusions to Reality
Posted on02 Feb 2012
TagsMaking Murder Respectable, phraseology, reality, sensitivity, The Economist, Tom Cruise, vanilla words, word choice, words, labels, 1984, A Few Good Men, cognitive dissonance, compensation, connotations, definitions, euphemisms, food, George Orwell, glass, illusion, Jack Nicholson
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Words have power, not only in their definitions but also, more importantly, in their connotations. The article, “Making Murder Respectable,” from the... Read More
The Rise of Intuition
Posted on09 Sep 2010
Tagsadvancements, biotechnology, BNET Blog, cognition, communications, decisions, emotions, feelings, illusion, Influence, intuition, knowledge, leadership, management, nanotechnology, Psychology Today, rationale, sales, scientific, sensors, uncertainty, unknown, wants
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The other day a colleague forwarded this link to the BNET blog speaking to intuition. Embedded in it was a link to... Read More
