by david allan van nostrand | Jan 16, 2023 | Statistics, The world around us, Using Information
Doe, a deer, a female deer; Ray, a drop of golden sun; Me, a name I call myself; Far, a long, long way to run; Sew, a needle pulling thread; La, a note to follow so; Tea, I drink with jam and bread; that will bring us back to do, oh oh oh. Guido d’Arezzo was a...
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 | Jun 6, 2022 | Point of view, The Wayback Machine, Using Information
The ship was on its way from Crete to Rome when a ferocious storm struck. At the mercy of gale winds and violent waves, the ship was perilously close to sinking. The crew were forced to do the only thing they could to try and save it: lighten the ship enough to give...
by david allan van nostrand | Jan 31, 2022 | Human Behavior, Teaching, Using Information
Some time in this century, a few of the world’s leading MBA programs realized students were being taught plenty about business but nothing about human behavior. They knew a growing body of evidence was showing clear linkages between management practices based in the...
by david allan van nostrand | Nov 29, 2021 | Human Behavior, Using Information
You’ve seen it in dozens of films, mostly in black and white. Somewhere outside in the dark of night, three guys take out cigarettes. One of them strikes a wooden match. The match flares up from the phosphorous in the tip and then settles down to a steady yellow...
by david allan van nostrand | Aug 16, 2021 | Human Behavior, Items in the News, Using Information
People who like to avoid shocking discoveries, who prefer to believe that society is just what they were taught in Sunday School, who like the safety of the catchphrases of what Alfred Schütz has called the “world taken-for-granted,” should stay away from sociology....
