The ability to form and bring about a mental image, one not directly traceable to a perceptual source, is habitually thought of as imaginative, or imagination proper. It can be an evocation of a true or phoney remembrance, even a mix of both, hence its potential for innovative newness. …

On the ambiguity of taking intuition as one’s grasp of unmediated knowing, or of content just appearing, presenting itself to our consciousness already wrapped up as a belief. Is it something we do, or it just happens to us? Something must be happening. Irrespectively of external stimuli, such credence is…

A book by Paulo Finuras, published by Edições Sílabo last week, Human Affairs: Evolution & Behaviour — Selected Papers. I’ve been following Paulo’s work for a couple of years now since I’ve bumped into him on LinkedIn, and we became sort of virtual pen friends. I was looking forward to…

About David Epstein’s book Range[1]. deliberate practice head start advantage or liability? sampling period late specialization slow bakers It feels like falling behind kind or wicked learning? parallel trenches chunking single and double-loop learning cognitive entrenchment Martian tennis scientific spectacles cognitively flexible computational thinking Fermi problems calling bullshit low on…

A book by Julia Galef, published by Penguin last April, The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t. This book is about stopping deceiving oneself and viewing the world realistically without choosing between being happy and being a realist. I came to know about it in…

This proverb, meaning “The one who writes reads twice” — which isn’t as old as might be supposed[1] — bears the idea that writing down what’s read improves one’s ability to retain and, eventually, to retrieve, as if by reading it twice. Longhand writing was a practice from the heyday…

Let me start by welcoming you to this Age of Agile[1], all-time permeating everyone, everything, everywhere, ailment to anything from a petechial rash to world inequality. At the height of the software crisis, the “Manifesto for Agile Software Development” came about with the proposal of valuing more some items on…

What gives, then? Let’s assume a contemporary, technology-driven business context, projecting itself onto the digitally-transformed future of work. Are these synonyms or have different meanings? If so, is it a difference in kind or degree? The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines “cooperation” as a noun, meaning “the actions of someone who is…

Those two are the main ones, the structuralistic existential constraints on the goal. Bloatedness is the quality or state of being bloated, as overfilled with a substance that’s been growing and stretching to the point of becoming excessively large; that’s the stuff I’m amassing to extract what I intend to…