Originally appeared in Inside Knowledge Magazine 10 Sep 2008, Vol 12, Issue 1.
On 12 September, 2001, I received an e-mail from the CEO of my company (a federal contracting firm located just outside Washington DC). As F-16s continued their combat air patrols over my neighbourhood, I read, paraphrasing: ‘John, yesterday [9-11] was a failure of knowledge [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Don’t Connect the Dots, Watch the Noise
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Shun The frumious Bandersnatch!
Words mean things. One of the more obnoxious statements of the obvious, and yet I find myself saying it more often these days. The more I delve into understanding complexity theory, network science, and struggle to understand cognition and neuroscience, the more frustrated I get when people use terms in ways appear at odds with [...]
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