Complexity and chaos require a different set of thinking skills.
Avertissement (1/2) : ceux qui espèrent une attaque contre la Chine dans ce qui suit en seront pour leurs frais. Quand j’écris “le chinois…” je fais référence à une littérature colonialiste des siècles passés où l’autre est considéré de manière stéréotypée, catégorique et est forcément inférieur. À vous de détecter[…]
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“By end-2014, 59.5 million individuals were forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, generalized violence, or human rights violations. This is 8.3 million persons more than the year before (51.2 million) and the highest annual increase in a single year.” UNHCR Global Trends 2014
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“Mark Twain’s experience comes to mind, in which, after he had mastered the analytic knowledge needed to pilot the Mississippi River, he discovered the river had lost its beauty.” Robert M. Pirsig – Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I remember years ago when as a young deck hand,[…]
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J’ai commencé la semaine à Lisbonne et je la finis à Stockholm, d’où le titre. L’Europe, comme le reste de la planète, est d’une beauté à couper le souffle. C’est émouvant de voir à quel point les gens ont trimé pendant des siècles pour avoir une vie, une vie en[…]
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I thought luxury was not my thing. I have not had a watch for decades. They scratch my portable computer wrist pad. And the ones I had before were neither flashy nor expensive. But now I do work with the luxury industry. I like it. There is a building in Shanghai[…]
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What about doing crazy things? We know that when the going gets tough, the tough get going. Then comes a whole gallery of muscle flexing archetypes. We need force. This is what we grew up on: strength and honor. Sounds like the Roman empire. Actually it comes from the Ridley[…]
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In most games, you need to keep the ball in play. When you go out of bounds, the game stops. In real life, that means that to keep the activity going, one needs to stay between boundaries. When you go beyond those boundaries, bad things happen. Homeostasis and health From[…]
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Sharing information and opinions can at times fall prey to group think or other forms of conformism. That can prove dangerous. Important information can be overlooked. It may be that is is known but not easy to mention. It could also be hidden in plain view. Talking about the unsaid[…]
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We do a lot of emailing. Too much maybe. We also talk, hopefully a lot and face to face. After all being human is about having a body and it is nice to be together, just to talk. When we talk with people we like and respect, we create “nice”[…]
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