Tag Archives: behavior

People watching – A Weekend in Chicago

Posted on January 24, 2011 by

I had a great weekend with my family in Chicago. It’s always enjoyable to haunt your old stomping grounds and relive the old stories, hopes, heartbreaks, jobs, dinners, and strolls. For this trip I really want to soak in a … Continue reading →

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Biggish Thought of the Day

Posted on February 9, 2010 by

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves. – Herbert Simon

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In Free Will, It’s the Free that’s Problematic

Posted on June 24, 2009 by

So it’s not that will doesn’t exist; it’s that the free part is problematic — a lot of people see free will and say, “Well, you’re showing there’s no free will; therefore, people have no intentions or will.” No. There … Continue reading →

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Conditioned Incompetence

Posted on May 22, 2009 by

We often blame businesses, leaders, ourselves for “not knowing better.” The reality is, in modern American, there is a healthy amount of conditioned incompetence.  Yes, as a society, we really don’t know better, don’t know different.  For a very long … Continue reading →

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Confusion on Easter Sunday

Posted on April 12, 2009 by

When I sit down to make sense of the world I often start with this question: If beings from another galaxy were to show up on our planet on an anthropological mission, what would they think about all of this? … Continue reading →

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Human Behavior is a Strange Loop

Posted on March 28, 2009 by

Please listen to this file. It’s called the Shepard Risset glissando.  It’s very unnerving to me. If I were to put sound to  various cause and effect data trails from complex systems (like human behavior), I imagine it would sound … Continue reading →

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What is a Ponzi Scheme? – Getting Caught Up In Definitions

Posted on December 16, 2008 by

The last 7 days of Internet blogging and searches have been dominated by Ponzi scheme debate and definition. For reference, here’s Google Trends for Ponzi/Ponzi Scheme vs. Britney Spears.  I use Britney Spears as a proxy for actual volume because … Continue reading →

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Reality Mining a ‘thick web’: collective intelligence

Posted on December 4, 2008 by

Data once was a signature, a number on a driver’s license or even a newspaper subscription. Now it is much more but less of what you are used to accounting for. Digital information is today recorded by all manner of … Continue reading →

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Their bailout, your unemployment and changes in schedules

Posted on November 20, 2008 by

UPDATE 1-US weekly jobless claims surge to 16-year high Reuters - 11/20/08 – 1 hour ago US weekly jobless claims shoot up to 542000 MarketWatch Boeing layoff of 800 rattles Wichita aircraft economy HP to possibly layoff 25,000 world wide coincident … Continue reading →

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The High Cost of Misperception: Behavioral Economics

Posted on October 31, 2008 by

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/opinion/28brooks.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=&st=nyt&oref=slogin – free registration to read if not registered… Go with the as postulated in this NYT.com article, there are four steps to every decision… you perceive a situation you think of possible courses of action you calculate which course … Continue reading →

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