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The Cult of the Business Guru, and the pop psychology anecdotalists that business doesn’t need
“Some people can only think in anecdotes, it appears, and are deft at using them as a social currency. In recent years, it is this group that has been in the ascendancy in many organisations.”
How Malcolm Gladwell created the template for modern business fads. Read more at The Daily Telegraph.
Self-driving cars are going nowhere
In this column at the Daily Telegraph, I explain why so little progress has been made in autonomous driving, and […]
Like kicking dead whales down a beach: understanding the Great Hydrogen Delusion
Engineers will rarely tell you something is impossible, even when your proposal is a very bad idea. Computer scientists at Stanford and MIT in the 1970s came up with a wonderful expression for this, an assignment that was technically feasible, but highly undesirable. They called it “kicking a dead whale down a beach”. The folklore compendium The Hacker’s Dictionary defines this as a “slow, difficult, and disgusting process”.
Yes, you can do it like that. But you really don’t want to…