Archive for the 'counterintuitive'

• Expanding the Antilibrary

May 19th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 2010, academia, authors, book, cognition, COIN, cold war, complex systems, complexity, counterinsurgency, counterintuitive, creativity, economics, education, empire, Evolution, historians, history, ideas, illegal combatants, insurgency, intellectuals, intelligence, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, legitimacy, military, military history, public school, readers, reading, reform, scenario, social science, teaching, terrorism, theory, war | 10 comments

• Tweaking Cascio’s Futurist Bibliography

April 30th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, authors, book, cognition, consilience, counterintuitive, culture, fast company, fun, futurism, historians, ideas, intellectuals, Perception, science, science fiction, social science, society, theory, uncertainty | 9 comments

• Thinking With a Fresh Mind

April 21st, 2010 by zen

Posted in academia, analytic, bias, brain, cognition, counterintuitive, creativity, education, Epistemology, framing, horizontal thinking, ideas, innovation, insight, intelligence, logic, metacognition, Perception, physics, priming, psychology, scenario, science, teaching, vertical thinking | 23 comments

• More Mackinlay – On Why the USG Doesn’t “Get” AQ as a “Global Insurgency”

April 19th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 4GW, academia, Afghanistan, al qaida, America, analytic, army, book, britain, COIN, connectivity, counterinsurgency, counterintuitive, defense, DIME, Epistemology, extremists, foreign policy, government, hierarchy, history, IC, ideas, illegal combatants, insurgency, intellectuals, IO, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, john nagl, kilcullen, military, military reform, national security, networks, non-state actors, organizations, politics, primary loyalties, security, social science, strategy, Strategy and War, terrorism, theory, tribes, virtual states, war, warriors, web 2.0 | 9 comments

• Creativity in the IC – Or the Lack of It

March 28th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, analytic, art hutchinson, bias, CIA, cognition, complex systems, complexity, connectivity, consilience, counterintuitive, creativity, Epistemology, framing, futurism, government, horizontal thinking, IC, ideas, insight, intellectuals, intelligence, medici effect, metacognition, military intelligence, national security, Perception, psychology, scenario, social science, society, synthesis, theory | 6 comments