Recommended Reading ( and Viewing)
Top Billing!: John Hagel – Pareto Power and Leveraged Growth and Pareto Paring – Achieving Strategic Cost Reduction
The “Pareto Curve” of Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto is bettern known in the blogosphere as “The Long Tail” due to Chris Anderson of WIRED who wrote the recent bestseller The Long Tail, (Revised and Updated)
Scientific American – Evolution of the Mind: 4 Fallacies of Psychology and The Future of Man–How Will Evolution Change Humans?
“…Harpending and Hawks’s team estimated that over the past 10,000 years humans have evolved as much as 100 times faster than at any other time since the split of the earliest hominid from the ancestors of modern chimpanzees. The team attributed the quickening pace to the variety of environments humans moved into and the changes in living conditions brought about by agriculture and cities”
Lexington Green – Clausewitz, On War, Book I: The Enduring Value of Clausewitz’s Articulation of the Nature of War
Also courtesy of Lex….
John Robb – Fewer Teachers more Automation
I want to tackle this post in detail later.
Fabius Maximus – “Some people just want to see the world burn”
I agree with FM. Mr. Bowman does not understand the psychology of the warlord, or those who would sign up with them. From my view, the world contains no shortage of armed bohemians.
Josephfouche – The First Rule of 5GW is, You Do Not Talk About 5GW
Heh. Dan of TDAXP meets his match in the smooth, original, Open Office, color graphics for war theory department.
SWJ Blog – A Proposal for a Unifying Strategic Doctrine for National Security
A discussion starter.
The Claremont Institute – Bennett and Cribb on Post-Racial Politics
There appears to be an interesting – though warily executed by both parties – reachng out going on between the conservative intellectual establishment and the incoming administration of Barack Obama. Sort of a political detente in progress for a possible strategic triangulation on issues where common ground can be discerned.
John Seely Brown on “Creativity”:
That’s it !
January 18th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
Thanks for the link.
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Fabius Maximus is right to flail Bowman. He fails to GET IT on many levels, including his completely uncomprehending assessment of Dark Knight, which is a deep meditation on conflict in the current age. The superhero guise is protective camouflage to get past the PC police, just like artist in the Soviet Union had to embed their actual message behind a screen of communist piety.
January 19th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Definitely impressed with J.F.’s graphics!
Re: the rapid human evolution piece, the debate over Farewell to Alms continues [1,2]
[1] http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/gclark/Farewell%20to%20Alms/EREH%20response%20-%20revised.pdf
[2] http://calculatedexuberance.blogspot.com/2008/12/farewell-to-alms-ii.html
January 19th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
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