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A review of “Principles of Applied Stupidity”
well i am very grateful to Robert Huebscher and David Raileanu for doing a review of “Principles of Applied Stupidity” in their newsletter which I guess gets read by a whole lot of people! http://www.advisorperspectives.com/newsletters09/How_to_Succeed_Without_Knowing_Anything.php David makes some very good … Continue reading
The Massive Economy of Imperfection Concealment
Well I am sitting here waiting to hear from the printer so I can see the proof of the cover of the 3rd edition of “Principles” and I thought, well, I can make productive use of my wait time by … Continue reading
Solving Problems is Not Recommended– A New Principle of Applied Stupidity
Have you ever gotten onto a plane and opened up the airline magazine, hoping to kill some time doing the crossword, only to find someone else has already done it? Annoying, wasn’t it? We tend to think of problems as … Continue reading
overcoming failure is getting to be fashionable
it’s interesting how many twitter tweets there are these days re: webpages and blogs that talk about overcoming failure. There is a fairly common theme to these posts, which is “I never experienced failure before . . .” Well this … Continue reading
elimination of risk is not leadership nor is it a winning strategy
A whole bunch of seemingly separate items all fell into one big pile today. Simply stated, it has occurred to me that there are an awful lot of people who think that success can be achieved merely by eliminating all … Continue reading
talent, not enough. determination, not enough either.
So I was reading this blog post somewhere today about a book called “talent is overrated.” I was in immediate agreement with this pithy little phrase… it always bothered me when people would refer to my pro bass playing as … Continue reading
Seven dirty words you CAN say on television
Readers of this blog know that semantics are (is?) Something of an avocation of mine. And, after reading some of the political comments to the Huffington post about a college course in stupidity listed below, this got me to rethinking … Continue reading
Stupidity Science and Healthcare
Regular readers of this blog already know that I am somewhat of a contrarian in the way I think and in the way I look at the world in general. Having written a book about the wonderful uses of stupidity, … Continue reading
On TV again
Well i just found out a few days ago, "Chronicle" is re-running their "I'm With Stupid" episode tonight . . . (thursday July 30th '09) which features . . . ME! if you can't wait to see it you can … Continue reading
The Importance of Failure Management
Whenever I am introduced as a speaker, the person who owns the event always stands up and reads an introduction which is essentially a laundry list of my various achievements in life. Beyond being customary, I suppose it is important … Continue reading
