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SmallTorque: Minority Rule : Nassim Taleb has a great post on how quite small minorities can win over the majority in social matters: It ...

For date data this is superb, the scaling of period has removed the need for multiple graphs. And finally clicking the graph invokes the scr...

“However, we have an epidemic of MBAs who look purely at business cases. At some point you have to take the punt. With Government, there is ...

"When we see lists like that, we can start believing that all social objects are “content”, which gets the “rightsholders” of content s...

"The working theory You may recall a little while back that I posted a blog entry about the Five Ages of Media. My contention is that d...

"There's a certain blindness that comes from worst-case thinking. An extension of the precautionary principle, it involves imaginin...

"This warning about the escalation of the risk management of everything should be taken seriously. In his first Demos book, The Audit E...