i will be on the road with only limited internet access for the holiday and regret that it will be unlikely that i willahave timeato do much in the way of posting replying to comments or answering blog email. in order that the readership not feel neglected i decided upon a very rare edition of best of zenpundit and open up the comment section for free but civil discussion the super empowered indiv...
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blogfriend dan of tdaxp clearly thinks so doing artsy stuff isnt creativity ive talked about creativity before in the context of the ooda loop purposeful practice a form of metacognition that is the opposite of flow and mental illness. another part of creativity is being recognized as useful by the field of a domain. if you invent a new type of hot water heater that is being creative. if youre che...
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a recent report fromathe jamestown foundation put a spotlight in the activities of neoeurasian ideologist the politically connected extremist aleksandr dugin to build bridges withaturkeys panturkic movement .on the one hand attempts are made to turn the two eurasias into allies rather than competitors on the other hand there has been a duginstyle ideologization of the term in response to american...
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let me state for the record that while i think seis superempowered individuals are a type of actor that can undertake 5gw 5gwers do not need to be seis. seis can do more things then 5gw. this is some overlap in the thinking and the people doing the thinking on 5gw and sei. they are not the same thing note this is my current working definition of 5gw 5gw is the secret deliberative manipulation of...
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john robb is hard at work on book ii which will be about the building of resilient communities. hes batted a few comments about on twitter and worked up aaseries of posts on the rc themeaat his formal site. here are a few samples to give the flavor of his enterprise journalco in without a model for resilience is futile authors note the resilient community the thermodynamic crisis journalwhy use th...
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edward de bono is a longtimeaguru in the field of creativity specializing in horizontal thinking de bono prefers the older terminology he coined lateral thinking. hat tip to david armanoa on twitter.......
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blogfriend matt armstrong was recently featured at the usc center for public diplomacy where he had a very thorough and wellconsidered oped on information operations and new media. pretty much everything matt had to say were things the usg should be doing in attempting to craft some kind of coherent narrative of its national objectives policies and values syn chronizing information the importance o...
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ai finally started reading nassim nicholas talebs athe black swan the impact of the highly improbableatoday and im already impressed with it. talebs very straightforward in attacking the limitations of bell curve assumptions and the common assumptions regarding the extent of uncertainty most people unless they are futurists or say design computer models seldom contemplate questions of deep uncert...
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from john robb at global guerillas the us national security budget is nearly 700 billion a year much more if the total costs of iraqafghanistan are thrown in more than the rest of the world combined. unfortunately within that entire budget there isnt a single research organization or think tank that is seriously studying analyzing or synthesizing the future of warfare and terrorism. fatally most o...
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friends of zenpundit are an enterprising crew shane deichman has launched a new business entity emc2 and has joined a thinker who has beenafeatured here dr. yaneer baryam at the new england complex systems institute. having talked a little science with shane where he swiftly blasts out of my humble laymans orbit i think this will be a fantastic fit for his expertise in particle physics. and if thi...
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interestingly william lind who previously has dismissed 5gw as a premature concept has returned to the subject to dismiss it once againain the context of superempowered individuals. in regard to the spree of crazed gunmen shooting up schools lind wrote is this war i dont think so. some proponents of fifth generation war which they define as actions by superempowered individuals may disagree. but t...
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