All our lives we are taught by strangers. We are told to listen, respect and learn from their teachings. It’s been a long since teaches actually taught us something worth learning though and that’s the…
Tag: straight answer
If this then that
It’s always worth re-visiting first principles i.e. the theory from time to time…today is a very basic recap of a fundamental logic using facts, rules and definitions as the basis for reason; deductive reasoning. Lets…
Stand up
Stand up for progress. Stand up for change. Stand up to brief. Stand up to debrief. Stand up to sprint. Stand up to retrospect. Stand up to scrum. Stand up to iterate. Stand up to…
Captive
I’m going to take a slightly different approach today as I realise I’ve been rather negative in dealing with some issues explored here at Ask a Toddler. So I’m not going to focus on our…
Mind works
For if you [the rulers] suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what…
Illusion of choice
We are constantly faced with decisions, hundreds of times a day. What to eat, what to wear, how to travel, who to speak to, what to say, how to say it etc etc. Choices. Decisions.…
Everybody is a genius
Albert Einstein was a genius. There is no question about that. According to Einstein we are all geniuses. Can that be the case? Are we being judged against the wrong criteria? Formal institutionalised education imposes…
Too far to turn back
What do you do when you know you’ve gone too far to turn back? Do you give up and start afresh? Do you trace back a few steps and change trajectory? Or do you carry…
Open your eyes
Open your eyes to the truth. We have been blindfolded ever since we’ve been taught anything. Our formal education systems are designed to build drones, a workforce not required to think but to follow orders…
A picture tells a thousand words
Taking pictures comes naturally to me…writing is a little more difficult…as you’ve probably noticed. Assessing the light, picking the mid-tone and exposing to capture the intended mood is something that happens in my head in…
Lights are on…
…but nobody’s home. I’m founding that more and more. We all seem so distracted with other things…who knows what…but there are so many absent looking people it’s actually a bit scary. There are so many…
Getting a straight answer
I’m finding that the pool of people you can rely on for getting a straight-up honest answer is shrinking. I’m not exactly sure why but it must have something to do with a lower level…