James The Wanderer
The Peter Principle Presidency
Sunday, July 4th, 2010Author James The Wanderer From Wikipedia, “The Peter Principle is the principle that “in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.” It was formulated by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull in their 1969 book The Peter Principle”. Viewed from this perspective, we now have an explanation for the [...]
Lack
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010Author James The Wanderer Nicholas Nassim Taleb (The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, several other great books) has generated several good ideas, among which are: ( 1 )Events will occur which are both unpredicted and unpredictable. These he calls Black Swan events, in honor of the utter amazement of European naturalists, who KNEW all swans [...]
Self Deception
Thursday, April 15th, 2010Author James the Wanderer I am an Engineer, at heart; my delight is in those Things that Work, that turn energy into useful products or work, safely, efficiently, and in a controlled manner. Yet when I was an undergraduate, I was required to take Electives, and most of mine were in Psychology and Sociology, for [...]