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My parents hired a professional to paint our garage every couple years. As a curious kid, I would pepper him with questions. "How do you get it smooth? Would it be faster with a sprayer? Who picked the color?" A few years later my mom gave me the job of painti…
Another System Thinking trope that gets my dander up. Not because it's ill intentioned but because so many well-intentioned people do it. In discussio…
A set of haunting images has hit the internet. Not Freddy Kruger haunting, but somehow equally disturbing for our brain. The text from one of the imag…
This post was adapted from A Literature Review of the Universal and Atomic Elements of Complex Cognition . Researching any of the four DSRP patterns r…
In this polarized landscape, unfortunately people focus less on what is being said than on who is saying it. Before you write me off as a pinko commie…
Distinctions involve several different skills blended into one simple underlying structure where two elements (identity and other) make up any distinc…
Distinctions are universal. They are commonly thought to be uniquely human and to exist only as concepts. This is untrue, as Distinctions exist for al…
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