Continued… Action without understanding is the cause of our problems (at least if we feel we must identify a cause). This editorial from Terence Corcoran in the Post makes some unpopular points, laying much of the blame on zeal for governance and accounting reform. It turns out that maybe imperialist leaders, insider boards, and mark-to-market [...]
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“My general rule is that we’re inclined towards optimal opportunities to experience our personal affect in the world. We continue exploring widely as long as no specific topic quite matches our existing knowledge, circumstances, and cognitive disposition. “When we find knowledge that helps us interpret our circumstances in a way that we can personally identify [...]
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(continued) … is absolutely essential if you have any intention of leading. This is one of the oldest ideas in philosophy, we keep coming back to it again and again and again, but people keep forgetting. David Frum discussed this a few days ago, in a post on “Presidential Knowledge“: Somebody who knew President Bush [...]
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