My province of Ontario just got notice of an impending $1.1 billion bill. An auditor’s report made public the probable tally of costs, fees and various auditor stuff from a decision to cancel a project. Ouch! The blame game will be on, full force. Lots of weird stuff happened. Complexity brings that out. Too many moving […]
Language is a human capacity, a capacity for dealing with predicaments, rather than for perceiving, more sharply, the contents of the world. Wittgenstein Mr. Ludwig may have been on to something. What we perceive has to be translated into a label so that even our own perceiving beings can navigate around. Language assists in […]
This quote from Sanford economist Paul Romer has always struck a chord. The quote suggests counterintuitive thinking. The usual responses to a crisis are to mitigate damage and then to get things back to their previous normal. This is good if the river near you floods and the streets are now unpassable. Mitigate and return are the good […]
Where I live it is nearing the end of summer and cottage season. People try to get away for weekends and weeks. People like the fresh air and nature. They like doing stuff that is not in an office, or not required. Some people like being very active. For others a good book and something […]
We drill. Insert straw. Suck. Slurp the last drop. Repeat. We’re always surprised it’s empty. Hmmmm.
Thirty years ago. The second best time is now. I was introduced to that quote by Anna Warwick Sears. It may not be original to her, but it was new to me. It introduced the idea of time frames. A tree takes time to grow. The person planting the tree is not often the person […]
In the musical Cabaret, this song phrase was one of the most popular. We seem to have taken that on board even more so today. We are happy to have the money that oil and gas produce. We are happy for the tax benefits. We are happy to help pay down national debt. We are happy […]
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche A philosopher can say it better than I. The future has no right way to it. It might have preferred ways or ways which have had success, but none […]
…nature makes a drought. The drought is the backdrop for activity. If you live in a desert you understand that it doesn’t always rain. In truth you can have drought conditions that persist. Hence drought prone areas, attempt to mitigate a shortage by practicing drought smart actions. The actions may not always be successful but […]
If history teaches us anything it is that history is always being rewritten. What we learned in one moment of our lives about events no longer in our lives gets routinely updated. New documents are found. New interpretations are available. New links are added which change the understanding of events. History is as mysterious as […]
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