“Nature gave us two ears and one mouth, clearly indicating that it’s more important to listen than to talk.”
Peter Shankman
(in Nice Companies Finish First)
Category Archives: This is how I see it
Quote of the day #75
“There are so many health conditions and the literature changes so fast that no doctor can keep up.”
Herbert Chase
(Professor of Medicine at Columbia University)
Quote of the day #74
“Ten years ago, Apple’s largest asset was an incredibly innovate research & development department. Today, Apple’s greatest asset is cash.”
Tom Webster
Logical fallacies – download the free poster now!
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Please spend a minute or two to have a look at this wonderful initiative from Jesse Richardson, an ad guy who decided to finally use the skills he developed while working in advertising for something useful: a website that lists a number of common logical fallacies in a very user-friendly way. On the site you can also download – for free – the poster you see here. A perfect tool for the development of critical thinking, which will no doubt help to uncover half truths and fake news!
After having downloaded your own copy, please do make an extra effort to point out this initiative to your family and friends, especially if you know people working in education. Both the website and the poster are published under a creative commons license, so all of the material can be used at will.
The website & poster are available in various languages, such as:
English: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/
German: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/de
French: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/fr
Spanish: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/es
And since this week also in Dutch (which is where I got involved, as I made the tranlation into Dutch): https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/nl
Case closed
“Your case has been closed” is a sentence you come across from time to time in the process of interacting with a helpdesk team. And in normal circumstances you feel pretty good when that sentence is presented to you, as it typically implies that your problem has been fixed. If, however, that particular sentence – in a case I have recently experienced myself – is the opening sentence of the very first reply you get after submitting a question, you will agree with me that this is far away from what is commonly understood as normal circumstances. Continue reading
Quote of the day #73
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion.”
Nelson Mandela
Quote of the day #72
“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in”
Leonard Cohen
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3 Things I said goodbye to in 2016
Some years go by without a lot of reasons for them to be remembered in great detail afterwards. 2016 will not be one of those years – for readers in the distant future: google ‘Brexit’ or ‘Trump’. Looking back to what happened in my personal everyday life, it turns out to have been a year of saying goodbye to some things.
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Quote of the day #71
“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”
Jim Rohn
Quote of the day #70
“Everybody has problems. Some people can deal with them, some can’t.”
Don Draper (Mad Men – Season 7, Episode 10)
THE SECOND HALF 