6 Dec, 2024
Op 10 oktober 2024 kwam EenVandaag met het volgende nieuws: “Helft linkse kiezers wil immigratie beperken, maken zich vooral zorgen om opvangtekort en polarisatie”. Begin december 2024 draaide Frans Timmermans (o.a. BNR). Hij verschuilt zich achter het (kennis) rapport van de Staatscommissie Demografische Ontwikkelingen 2050. Meer waarschijnlijk is dat het om (zijn)...
24 Oct, 2024
Intro LO: While reading this Aeon - Psyche article, the Big Bang Theory TV characters of Dr Sheldon Cooper and Dr Leonard Hofstadter came to my mind, as an example of the “reflective aspect of wisdom“ and the “socio-emotional dimension of wisdom” (respectively). Alone, Sheldon highlights “the quality of being very unpleasant or rude” a.k.a. obnoxiousness, while...
16 Oct, 2024
Recently, I noticed two interesting articles that seemingly contradict each other: (1) China tells schoolteachers to hand in their passports (FT, 6 Oct 2024), and (2) Scale of Chinese Spying Overwhelms Western Governments (WSJ, 14 Oct 2024). The contradiction is about gathering knowledge. Does China trust its spies more than public information from the Financial...
9 Oct, 2024
My blog title is borrowed from a recent PS article that caught my interest. Wealth has always been a metric for Power. It’s very hard to imagine that Big Tech billionaires could - let alone would - be considered a metric for wisdom. Nevertheless, the quote below suggests differently. “In an America where wealth has increasingly become the primary source of social...
12 Aug, 2024
In principle, we do not know what we do not know - a.k.a. unknown unknowns. In my view, nearly all information is unknown to us. Perhaps, this immense segment is even 99.99999999 % - or far more. The other 3 segments are - once again, in my view - extremely small: known knowns (ie, knowledge), known unknowns (ie, beliefs), and unknown knowns (ie, instinct,...
28 May, 2024
Usually, we do not think about finding our goals in life. Those goals arrive “automatically” and/or subconsciously. For nearly everyone, our primary goal is survival (eg, food, housing, water). For most of us, money is our secondary goal in life because money satisfies our needs and our wants. When our needs and our wants (in life) have been satisfied then finding...
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