On Wikipedia 21st March 2018: “Today in the United States we have somewhere close to four or five thousand data points on every individual […] So we model the personality of every adult across the United States, some 230 million …
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6th July 2017 Have them sleep under the bridge (Press the red ‘play’ button to hear the audio – 7:45 minutes) Transcript of the Audio The Grenfell Tower disaster, that took place in London on 14 June 2017, is symptomatic …
It Doesn’t End With Grenfell – Accountability and Power Read more »
3rd April 2017 The Coincidence of Living at this Time (Press the red ‘play’ button to hear the audio – 3:20 minutes) Transcript of the Audio On April 3rd 1973 Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first handheld mobile phone …
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Executive Function in the Individual and the Organisation Successful organisations like Google and Facebook allow their employees an opportunity to experiment and pursue their own projects. Many public sector organisations also allow their employees opportunity for personal development. Why does …
Human Operating System 3 – Executive Function Read more »
12 Policies for Theresa May Brexit currently dominates UK politics but other issues should not be neglected. This article from July 2016 is as relevant now as it was when Theresa May gave her first speech after becoming PM. From …
Twelve Radical Policies Read more »
A Radio Play Set in 2050, the wellbeing index is approaching 10,000 but what does David Cameron have to say about it?
How does the UK cabinet office make decisions about policy? Last week I went to an interesting workshop that threw some light on this (and on sausages). This account looks at some of the influences on the policy making process …
Policy Regulates Behaviour Read more »
Part 1 looked at language and thought, mental models and computational approaches to how the mind represents what it knows about the world (and itself). Part 2 contrasts thinking in words with thinking in pictures, looking first at how evidence …
Representations of Reality Enable Control – Part 2 Read more »