philosophy
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Years ago, one of my favorite mentors shared his view that if you don’t understand an idea well enough to explain it using an analogy, you don’t understand it. In hindsight, I think this was his version of the quote attributed to Einstein that “if you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” Over
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It seems that people have been inventing stories to make sense of events for as long as people have been. Nassem Taleb, in Fooled by Randomness, commented about people’s tendency to create narratives to explain events. In his view, people tended to create deterministic narratives to explain random events or outcomes that resulted from uncertainty. Taleb believes that “You
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Years ago, I decided to accept a position that led to me transitioning from a high-volume industry with frequent product changeover and intense market forces to a low-volume industry with greatly reduced connectivity to market dynamics. My boss at the time provided me a bit of perspective and advice that has stuck with me over the
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Organizations, like spacecraft, rockets, and airplanes, rely on guidance, navigation, and control systems. Recently, I have been thinking about the similarities between guidance, navigation and control (GN&C) systems, the management and leadership systems in organizations, and how learnings from one type of system might be useful to the other type of system. At their core, GN&C
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When I was in college, much of the physics curriculum didn’t quite take for me. As I got later in my academic career, some of the ideas started to make more sense. Now, many years later, I have been seeking to relearn some of the material. To be honest, some of that relearning is probably learning things for
Musings of an Analyst 