We were having a discussion about reforming the military acquisition system around the watercooler today, and the subject came up: what kind of lens should we use to look at the problem? Engineering? Political? Scientific? Metaphorical? As we circled around the politics of reform I observed: “…If acquisition is a political process (and it should […]
Tag: rationality
Hearing the Voiceless- Part 2
In the ongoing conversation re: Action research into an entreprenurial curriculum for middle school and high school age students, one of our fellow students offered a detailed set of interventions based on the initial readout from the first exploratory meeting, a reported by the “insider”. While the ideas were excellent and interesting, I felt moved to […]
Reflecting on unbridled competition: a relic from the Pleistocene?
One of my fellow students posed the following question to me after reviewing some comments I made in the chapter we are co-editting re: socialism and unbridled competition: Ken, Your argument on unbridled competition looks solid, but some may disagree that it is THE cause for disharmony and mutual survival. I not sure if you […]
Next in line for the bailout, after $1T for the states, is steel
we continue to spend more and more tax money on companies that are making things we dont want to buy at their proce. But remember, its not your money, it’s the government’s money and all they have to do is just decide how you will spend it. And if you wont spend it, they will […]
Challenges for education in the network age
I am taking a close look at a school of thought on modern network-based education called “Connectivism”. It aligns very closely to my primitive and naive thoughts as expressed in this short video i made in 2005 as i was making my first efforts in moving my department from an Industrial Age curriculum and paradigm […]
Trading Lesson transcript: the importance of self talk
Trading Lesson: 12/30/2008 Summary: a review of some 5DD and 5DDC setups, and an inquiry into self talk ========================================================== The Trader: COP has a nice chart today. Had my eye on it after you put it on your list of 5DD. Got distracted after it went down a 6th day. Should have watched it […]
Profitable ETF Trading Strategies: Sector Contrarian
There is a new conventional wisdom beginning to emerge from the stock market these days and it says that there’s no way you can make money in a bear market unless you have the good fortune to be an expert market timer and bet against the recovery of the broad market. While it is true […]
The path to mastery, with emotional intelligence
The studies in the Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance describe the path to mastery as: (1) Deliberative Practice (2) Time spent at Deliberative Practice (3) Assistance from a mentor. Deliberative practice can be broken down to: (1) Identifying a long-term outcome (2) Breaking down the skills that lead to that outcome into its […]
Straddling the fence: the challenge and rewards of the practitioner-scholar
here is a snippet from the author’s preface to the CIA’s Psychology of Intelligence Analysis. It is an excellent free resource from our CIA. He captures for me the essence of the challenge of being the practitioner scholar: being the transmission gearbox between the world of rigorous, focused, research-oriented scholarship and the broad, immediate world […]
A reflection on Problem-solving vs Decision-making
I see an important distinction between problem-solving as a method and decision making as a process. I see problem solving as an important component of decision-making but I see this distinction: decision-making seems to be the ultimate act of convergent thinking as a prelude to action. I see problem-solving as an analytical or intuitive process […]