When faced with competing explanations for the same phenomenon, the simplest is likely the correct one. Occam’s Razor (Conceptuality.com) The moment I learned that the suspect in yesterday’s tragic shooting of two National Guard soldiers in Washington, D.C. had come to America from Afghanistan, I turned to my wife and laid out the following scenario … Read more
I am not a member of an organized political party. I am a Democrat. Will Rogers If you think I am going to bash the Democratic leadership for the events of the last 48 hours, you are correct. But it is not because Chuck Schumer could not prevent eight members of his caucus joining with … Read more
NOTE: As many of you know, I am currently in Milan, Italy teaching a course in change management as part of the international MBA program at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart. Even though I did not have time to acknowledge it last month, October 28 was the 10th anniversary of my first post … Read more
The problem of synchronicity has puzzled me for a long time, ever since the middle twenties, when I was investigating the phenomena of the collective unconscious and kept on coming across connections which I simply could not explain as chance groupings or “runs.” What I found were “coincidences” which were connected so meaningfully that their … Read more
Buckle your seat belts. We are going for a ride on Mr. Peabody’s “Wayback Machine.” The dial is set to October 20, 1973. The location is the office of attorney general Elliot Richardson in the U.S. Department of Justice. Just as we arrive, Richardson’s phone rings. The caller is President Richard Nixon. One day earlier, … Read more