Analogy is everything
Ordered a copy (I don’t know what happened to the copy that I read in 1980!) of “Gödel, Escher, Bach – an eternal golden braid“, the Pulitzer-prize-winning non-fiction book by Douglas Hofstadter. Found his “Stanford Read More …
Month: December 2007
Gifts
I have long been a great fan of the writings of Ursula Le Guin – since yesterday, I am basically glued to a recent book of hers – The Gifts (German: Die wilde Gabe) – Read More …
Clarity clouded
Since I ran my CV through TagCrowd, I am trying this on all possible documents. Here e.g. is the tag cloud (10 words only, common English words filtered out) of an article that I am Read More …
Art touches science
I’ve had a 1st rate visual evening: first, my wife and daughter decorated our 2,4 m Christmas tree with items collected in 30 years, glitter, balls and the like. Then I find – through an Read More …
Blogvergence
For the past 16 months, I have maintained not one, not two, but three different blogs in (virtually) different locations (i.e. all hosted by WordPress ) – it occurred to me only now (??) to Read More …
The Patternmaster
Here is a leap (coming out of a discussion with my friend Dr. Slava Shumowski): one way to avoid both the “mathematisation” (the classical scientific approach), and the trivialisation (the “Realwissenschaft” [Carnap] approach – e.g. Read More …
Free books … python
I couldn’t really come up with a proper title for this posting. Lately, I have made contact with Python, an object-oriented, high-level scripting language (which I first noticed consciously after reading about Pausch). There is Read More …
How different are you?
A number of recent client sessions brought a particular “gestalt” to the foreground that I have been aware of for a long time: the issue of being different – not in a pathological way – Read More …
Is KM dead?
Funny feeling to read about knowledge management (KM) as “a buzzword of the 90’s” in a recent blog – because it was such a large part of my professional life… I don’t know why the Read More …
No time to sharpen the axe?
In the 1990’s I spent a large portion of my time helping large companies manage their “knowledge” – no matter how elusive this quantity (or quality) may be. Since then, the topic has not fallen Read More …