The Art of the Possible? THIS MAKES UNCOMFORTABLE READING..BUT Without exception, all political parties are engaged in mutually destructive campaigns desperately trying to deliver warped interpretations of the Big Possible. It is hugely embarrassing to witness the relentless yet fruitless pleadings and cant of failing politicians trying to out do each other with facile promises to voters. Fanciful hope will never prevail, for if any party is to win they must give themselves a good talking to ...

https://gnosissite.wordpress.com/?p=247 Matt Hancock REDUX - the dire attempts of politicians to 'sell snake oil' and facile promises to the electorate is naive in the extreme. People will be won over by the trust they have in"the person on t he doorstep" (a BENEFIT) or the BURDEN they believe they they will face if they vote into power the wrong PRIME MINISTER - nothing more nothing less ...

THIMK It Through..Take time to re-evaluate what you are saying, thinking on, and about to do THIMK is an interesting take on logic, the day t oday logic of “doing” becomes defined by the action of "THIMKING" Back in 1977 at the Gray Tool Company. TEXAS I was a mainframe computer operator On the top of the mainframe (IBM 370/135 DOS VS/Power) was a sign that came from IBM . IT WAS ATTACHED TO THE MAINFRAME NEAR A H U G E RED EMERGENCY POWER OFF BUTTON The sign used a peculiar font that m...

Extracted thoughts from Tim Olivers paper (LSE) "Theory and Brexit: - can theoretical approaches help us understand Brexit?" whose thinking is acknowledged COGNITIVISM Cognitivist approaches look more at the mindsets – the psychology – of the individual decision makers as well as those who might " influence" those EU decision makers - by example the influence of powerful national EU politicians The beliefs and personalities of each EU decision maker means that they will react differently ...

The Troublous Paradox of Brexit Choices I assert that the multiple Brexit choices we have to make present us with unknowable outcomes - and the most potentially dangerous outcome will be to leave the EU without a deal - Thus our single choice rests in us backing the contender for PM who is least likely to commit us to the suicide option of no deal - no amount of dissembling will change that. TO BE OR TO DO TO BE overcome with choices and fail to act - or- TO DO what is necessary and suff...

THE DONKEY IN 'LA LA LAND' - The brexit conundrum REDUX Why Boris must play his cards very close to his chest (1) Donald Tusk @eucopresident recently tweeted " The backstop is an insurance to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland unless and until an alternative is found, those against the backstop and not proposing realistic alternatives in fact support restablishing a border. Even if they do not admit it" (2) Subsequently M. BARNIER was reported as stating that ' no change will be c...

Hopefully, in the context of a Brexit deal , MAYBE we are? We appear to have signals from Europe that - subject to a non trivial proposition - a proposition that presents a "viable alternative" to the current backstop arrangements - THERE WILL BE GROUNDS FOR A SUBSTANTIVE "DEAL" TWIXT the EU and GB. To get there however negotiators suggest that " creative options" must be invented. To do so (a) the acts of invention should be separated from the act ofimmediately judging any merits (b) both si...

Change By Design May 28, 2015 — 4 minute read A rare look into how design thinking looks and functions, and displays how it can be utilized to drive innovation. A review of Tim Brown’s book, Change By Design a 'listed' blog first publish attempt To give some background of the author, Tim Brown is the president and CEO of IDEO—a design and innovation consulting firm. IDEO works on a highly diverse range of projects from the Elmo Calls iPhone app all of the way to the development of Bank of Amer...