Why this title? Because recent Italian news intertwined with the past, present, and future of the Balkans.
At the end, a short story to summarize the article.
A full month? July, 2010
Italian and Balkan news
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Quantitative vs Qualitative, Visual vs Verbal: false dichotomies
Monday, July 19th, 2010It is quite funny how we got used to charts, statistics, and discussions about different perspectives.
But, despite all our computers, technologies, and so on… we keep getting the usual white/black alternatives, or “dichotomies”.
This short articles is about something that I kept doing often to convert complexity into something we are all used to: getting a 0 to 10, or 0 to 5, or F to A.
The concept is simple: our brain is inherently multi-dimensional.
We are able to see, perceive, think in shades- and to switch from visual to verbal if and when needed.
But when we move from what is personal to what is abstract (our work, in most cases, or news), we seemingly accept at face value boundaries that do not exist- false dichotomies.
If you are lost- do not worry: the rest of this article will make sense: including the “Devil’s advocate” section (i.e. how to prepare for objections).
2015
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010First and foremost: why the title?
Since 2009 I posted few (ok- well over 100) articles.
Eventually, technologies and political options intertwined.
But each bit of technology, and each political development require a couple of interpretation keys: experience in relevant activities, and plenty of readings to update experience.
In the end, each article is semi-self-contained, as there is, [...]
An interesting case: GM policy shift in Europe
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010As I wrote before (”viral politics”), integrating XX century politics with the XXI century environment requires sometimes moving beyond the mere reaction to what happens in the “blogosphere”.
Today’s proposed decision has been considered in some quarters worth of Pontius Pilate: it has been defined by various newspapers, from Turkey to Spain and beyond, as a non-decision.
Business planning? Really?
Thursday, July 8th, 2010Today on one of the linkedin groups I am connected to there was a request concerning business planning.
As it has been my rule since 2008- anything that I do for free goes eventually online (except for confidential information, of course).
In this case, it was a community for artists.
I will give you at the bottom of this posting the same 5 bits of free advice that I sent today- but, before, as a case study, I want to describe the steps toward the development of a prior website.
AML and Identity Collection Points
Thursday, July 8th, 2010This short article is about the unintended consequences of desirable changes.
Anyway- the aim is not the specific case study (normative changes introduce for anti money laundering purposes), but reminding to adopt a systemic, comprehensive view while preparing the blueprint for changes.