The Math of War and Piece
Uncle Sam is the family’s synonym for carelessness. Whenever he and Aunt Grace are absent, anyone who makes a blunder is likened to him. The legend goes like this: they were heading to Gettysburg for…
Author: Robert Hamill
Emotions in Our Thinking
Why do we feel the way we do? How do emotions fit into our Thinking?
Burning Thoughts Lookback at 2023
8 stories. Numerous articles on thinking, economics, and society.
Reasoning by Analogy
Reasoning by analogy allows the target reasoning to skip details by starting at a high level of abstraction that is justified by the source in the analogy, not the target.
Immortality
Immortality Banished from Earth, death had beenFor centuries, none had ventured to goNot a soul to heavenNot a spirit to riseUntil one day, Mother Earth cried, “California to sea,Japan must quake.I want new companyAnd shall…
Jungle Rope Solution
Create a test case which depends only the new feature and involves as little as possible of other tool features.
Natural Social Groups
In the ‘out group’, we interpret their behaviors sternly. If their choices are poor, it’s because they are lacking in a needed personality strength.
