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Inevitable Incompleteness of Knowledge: Gödel, Polanyi, You!

[The Prometheus Shot – EK02 :: Incompletness, Gödel, Polanyi, You! ]

This post is part of the Prometheus Shot series.

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The Artist’s Creative Cage: Is Wes Anderson Stuck?

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Why Certainty is an Illusion: Bohr & Heisenberg’s Uncertainty

[The Prometheus Shot – EK01 :: Uncertainty, Bohr, Heisenberg ]

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Jung’s Mandala : Creativity , Culture , Mystery

[The Prometheus Shot – E009 :: Jung’s Mandala – Creativity, Culture, Mystery ]

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Approximate Thinking, Politics, and Conflation : Rand & Lincoln

This post (podcast) is about a meta-example on Approximate Thinking and political discussions. Starting from a couple of examples, the power of identities and their role in understanding and obscuring (clarifying) thinking become evident.

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What is your “Great Work”?

Or… Is your current work Great? (Check the questionnaire)

Are you doing what you should be doing? Does it make sense that all of us should be working on Great things? How can we find out?

The Atlas of Worldly Wisdom is – in a sense – a guide that aims to help the learner find and pursue their own “Great Work”.

In management, as should be the case in life, we frequently think about the most that can be achieved given the limited resources available to us (Optimization).

So the question is : What is our great work? How can we find it?

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The Beauty & Richness of Social Media : Personal Lessons after 2/3 years on X (Twitter)

Should you call someone an “Idiot” on social media? Should you explain things to trolls? Why aren’t people nice to strangers (especially when we can’t see their face)?

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On the Virtues of (extreme) Imagination & Creativity : Sci-Fi and Fantasy (can be) Practical !

Extreme Imagination and Creativity (as in Sci-Fi and Fantasy) can be practical. They are useful as inspiration, for education, and even as inputs into scientific and engineering processes.

Here are a few thoughts on that.

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To Know or To Do : Timing & Awareness-Intent-Creativeness (AIC)

When do you ‘do’? When do you ‘know’ enough?

Knowledge or Action?

The Awareness-Intent-Creativeness triple spiral is the central framework of The Atlas of Worldly Wisdom (TAWW). It is an attempt to simplify our understanding of work and our aspiration for creativeness.

To Know or To Do… That is the (real) Question!

The below are reflections on Knowledge vs Action, inspired by discussions in The Atlas of Worldly Wisdom.

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Conflation in Politics: Lincoln & Slavery

Abraham Lincoln was a great leader who did a lot for equality! or Was/Did he? Are you making some unseen assumptions based on the small part of the story you know?

This is a discussion about conflation, politics, and assumptions..