by david allan van nostrand | Dec 12, 2022 | Human Behavior, Items in the News
The original definition of a stereotyping was printing by means of a solid block of type, an image that was perpetuated without change. Anything that fit onto a single sheet, such as letters, posters and the like. Only 100 years later did it come to mean preconceived...
by david allan van nostrand | Dec 5, 2022 | Items in the News, Leadership, Organizational Behavior, Point of view
That’s the headline you’ll be reading soon when the powers that be get the details sorted out. It will not happen until early in 2023 because there are a lot of things that need to be done first. Why Tiger? Tiger Woods is the world’s most popular golfer. He is one of...
by david allan van nostrand | Nov 28, 2022 | Items in the News, The world around us, Using Information
Five years ago Domino’s announced it was testing driverless delivery of pizzas. Executives had come down with a case of autonomous vehicle fever and decided that was the future of home delivery. I wrote an article about it pointing out the fatal flaws in their testing...
by david allan van nostrand | Aug 29, 2022 | Items in the News, Point of view, The world around us
Over coffee one day in the 1950s, a shop teacher heard a policeman say he wished there was a way to immobilize parking violators’ cars instead of just issuing citations that are often ignored. It could have been called the Frank Marugg boot, but was given the name of...
by david allan van nostrand | Aug 22, 2022 | Items in the News, Unintended Consequences
A man wearing a silly little hat and a trench coat belted tightly around his waist enters a quaint old European mountain hotel where a clerk with bushy grey hair, eyebrows and mustache sits behind the desk puffing on a long-stemmed pipe. Near the clerk, a small furry...
by david allan van nostrand | Aug 8, 2022 | Human Behavior, Items in the News
What’s quick as a bunny, slow as a turtle, wise as an owl, sly as a fox, hungry as a wolf, free as a bird, slippery as an eel, clumsy as an ox, graceful as a swan, gentle as a lamb, silly as a goose, crazy as a loon, pig-headed, eagle-eyed, blind as a bat, stubborn as...
