0 or 1?
What is it about 0s and 1s – black and white, that is so scary to us? We like shades of gray. Absolutes frighten us. People hate deciding things for themselves. As much as people […]
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Quality, and Standards
I remember ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’ whenever the topic of quality comes up. It is an intriguing book, flowing like a leisurely motorcycle journey would- with no clear end destination, but pleasurable […]
Non-contradiction
It is a very simple law. It states that contradictory statements cannot both be true in the same sense, e.g. the two propositions “A is B” and “A is not B” are mutually exclusive. But it […]
Does Crazy work?
An ad featuring Herman Cain’s Chief of Staff Mark Block has supposedly caused a big surge in online donations for Cain. The ad for the most part is pretty run-of-the mill rhetoric. Except for a […]
The Debates- do they matter?
In general, I feel people don’t care about who is governing them as long as things are going well. Look at all elections and campaigns- they are won by politics of negation and contradiction, not […]