Monthly Archives: March 2012

Electrons as People

Posted on March 15, 2012 by creativeconflictwisdom

‘Imagine how difficult physics would be if electrons could think?’ Murray Gell-Mann (1929-) Thanks to my friend Scott Page for this quote See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Gell-Mann Murray:

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Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error: Kathryn Shulz TED Talk

Posted on March 15, 2012 by creativeconflictwisdom

TED is blowing my socks off. Yet another fantastic talk, this time by Kathryn Schulz about that key conflict skill: being wrong and then admitting that you are wrong. I reviewed her book ‘Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of … Continue reading →

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Our Growing Global Readership

Posted on March 15, 2012 by creativeconflictwisdom

In addition to 50,000 hits, the new geographical coverage reporting system from Word Press (thanks for that Word Press folks) tells us that the blog is now read in 93 different countries around the world in the four weeks since … Continue reading →

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Religion, Transcendence and Group Selection: Jon Haidt’s View

Posted on March 14, 2012 by creativeconflictwisdom

I guess since I first read Darwin as a late teenager I have assumed that group selection was the case, that organisms that successfully bonded together would thrive against those that did not. I guess this was my Welsh mining … Continue reading →

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Medical Errors Kill 100,000: Conflict, Process Discipline and the Medical System

Posted on March 14, 2012 by creativeconflictwisdom

I love American surgeon Atul Gawande’s book ‘The Check List Manifesto‘, which is the inspiration behind the Creative Conflict Model of this blog, which is itself a conflict check list or process discipline. Atul shows very clearly the massive difference, … Continue reading →

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In Goldman Sachs We Trust? Conflict of Interest on Wall Street? Surely Not

Posted on March 14, 2012 by creativeconflictwisdom

I still recall that my favorite book on the 1929 Wall Street Crash, by John Kenneth Galbraith, ‘The Great Crash’ has a chapter called ‘In Goldman Sachs We Trust‘, which was I recall intended ironically. I also lived next to … Continue reading →

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50,000 Hits! Thanks to All Our Readers and Inspirers!

Posted on March 14, 2012 by creativeconflictwisdom

We just made our 50,000th hit. Thanks to all our readers for this, and keep spreading the message. And my particular thanks for the inspiration (‘think outside the box’) to start something like this blog to my old friend and … Continue reading →

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Vulnerability: TED Talk by Brene Brown

Posted on March 13, 2012 by creativeconflictwisdom

I really liked this TED talk by story teller/researcher (you’ll understand that label better after you have watched the clip) Brene Brown on the subject of Vulnerability, our willingness, or not, to take risk inter-personally, to go out on a limb … Continue reading →

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The Fertility Implosion

Posted on March 13, 2012 by creativeconflictwisdom

We have spent our lives fearing the population explosion. It was interesting to hear what we will hear far more about over the next half century: the population implosion. Some of J G Ballard’s novels, like ‘Vermilion Sands‘ included a future … Continue reading →

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Moderate Republicanism: What Would Ike Do? Top Ten Conflict Tips

Posted on March 13, 2012 by creativeconflictwisdom

So many of my friends here who were life long Republican voters, switched in 2008 for one reason: Sarah Palin who caused many of them not only to vote for Obama but actively campaign for him on the basis that … Continue reading →

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