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Contentious|How Organizations can Get Human and Credible with Blogs, Podcasts, and Journalism (audio) Episode
I remain an incorrigible word geek. Here are some items related to this theme that have caught my interest lately...TOP OF THIS LIST: Stupid Attractors. The attractor is key concept of the mathematics of systems. Three types of attractors are generally defined: finite, periodic, and strange. I posit a fourth type– the stupid attractor. Rather than create a meaningful pattern, here the "solutions" that converge are random bits of cosmic jetsam and annoying dunces. Examples of stupid attractors include shopping malls just before Christmas, or the IMAX theater just outside of the Grand Canyon. However, in the grand design of the universe, stupid attractors serve the greater purpose of consolidating idiots in clearly identified clumps that can be avoided. (Read the rest of this list...)
[ Tue, 18 Jan 2005 18:08:00 +0000 ]
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