Concepts
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Strong and Weak Link Problems
I’ve been a collector and connoisseur of fine concepts for some time now and it doesn’t happen often that I come across one that is…
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The Definition of Coherence
I have previously written about coherence without defining it. In a recent conversation between Jim Rutt and guest Kristian Rönn they talk about Rönn’s book…
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The Art of Interesting
As a guest on the Jim Rutt Show, philosopher Lorraine Besser recently talked about her book The Art of Interesting. One concept she mentioned has…
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When to Stop Looking
Imagine you want to hire someone. In a meeting room, there are eight candidates waiting to be interviewed. You can only interview one of them…
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Fermi Calculations: Getting order-of-magnitude estimates
Many years ago and on a different continent, I used to work for a management consulting firm with offices in all of the world’s major…
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The Copernican Principle
The Copernican Principle was formulated by physicist J. Richard Gott, who when he visited the Berlin wall in 1969 asked how much longer it was…
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