Image via Wikipedia a New York Times article examined charisma as a requirement for leadership and concluded it wasn’t an absolute necessity. Here are my reflections on that article: I found the article interesting, but it had a few anomalies that seemed odd to me. Just let me get those out of the way, as […]
Month: January 2010
PC triumphant!
Image via Wikipedia The report finds that PC inhibited our military’s ability to remove this clown from the force, and yet can’t name the devil itself, What’s changed? Nothing, we actually have reinforced PC behavior in this investigation. The U.S. military‘s just-released report into the Fort Hood shootings spends 86 pages detailing various slipups by […]
The age of external knowledge: why know anything except how to search
Image via CrunchBase An interesting post on The Age of External Knowledge and the role of knowledge vs capacity to search. Very trusting of Google: too trusting? I think that more important than the facts-on-hand, are the questions-in-mind which condition us to be alert to the answers we need. if there is a limit on […]
a war economy as far as the eye can see
Image via Wikipedia I worry about us painting ourselves into a corner. I think we have gone past the tipping point where the military industrial complex lobbyists dominate the political process. What do we make besides war and the tools, supplies, services and movies of war? Related articles by Zemanta Are Progressives Entirely Useless? (lewrockwell.com) […]
Haiti and the little red hen
Image by Getty Images via Daylife there are some countries that are complaining about the motives that the impute to the US with respect to the military forces engaged in relief operations in Haiti. Most of those countries are not in a position to provide significant humanitarian relief to the area in that they are […]
A Systems and “sense-making” perspective on leadership
Image via Wikipedia when i hear technology, i think of the “means” of exercising control, authority, communication, and i remember how easily it has become an “end” in and of itself in practice technology has created at least as many new, unforeseen challenges as it has solved. it has been used as a crutch, it […]
Trader’s roundtable: correllation between ETFs
Image via Wikipedia In a recent discussion among traders, the idea of how to measure the correlation between various ETFs in the world market model arose. Here is my method: I set up a table, updated automatically daily iwant to compare the daily % gains and losses as the data points, then just pick the […]