Our Personalities: Crashing Others’ Expectations
Posted on01 Oct 2012
TagsHarvard University, A Few Good Men, computers, organizational culture, Daniel Wegner, euphemisms, humans, illusion, Kurt Gray, objectivity, Personality, rationale, reality, robots, technology, The Economist, truth, University of North Carolina
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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
Tagsphraseology, reality, sensitivity, The Economist, Tom Cruise, vanilla words, word choice, words, Making Murder Respectable, 1984, A Few Good Men, cognitive dissonance, compensation, connotations, definitions, euphemisms, food, George Orwell, glass, illusion, Jack Nicholson, labels
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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 Irrationality of Procrastination
Posted on14 Oct 2010
Tagsirrational, University of Calgary, The Thief of Time, The New Yorker, scientific, reality, rationale, procrastination, Piers Steel, Personality, objective, Mark D. White, logic, intuition, emotions, decisions, Chrisoula Andreou, action
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I came across a book review in the October 11, 2010 issue of The New Yorker about The Thief of Time, edited... Read More
An Intuitive Understanding Of Weaknesses in the Scientific Method
Posted on07 Jun 2010
Tagsproblem solving, belief, business, emotions, experiment, guarantees, innovation, laboratory, leadership, morale, process, product, prove, reality, relationships, scientific
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Weaknesses in the scientific method cause its usefulness to fall far short of people’s belief in it. In other words, hype exceeds... Read More
