Charles Leon
Ascending Descending: Patternicity & ...

The brain cannot leave raw information alone. Given a scattering of dots, it draws lines between them. Given noise, it hears a voice.

Ascending Descending: Patternicity & Agenticity
Charles Leon
Is Logic Overrated?

A story, which opens Malcolm Gladwell's Blink, is where I want to start, because it captures something a fourteen-month due-diligence process is structurally incapable of noticing about itself: it can be flawless and still be answering the wrong question. Logic needs the “gut” to decide…

Is Logic Overrated?
Charles Leon
Don't Colour Inside the Lines:

The question our schools must answer is not whether children should be creative. They already are. The question is whether we will have the wisdom — and the courage — to stop educating it out of them

Don't Colour Inside the Lines:
Charles Leon
What cave painters knew (and the rest of us ...

Art arrives by a different road entirely, bypassing the locked doors and finding the person still waiting inside. It is a small, quietly devastating observation, and it captures something that neuroscience has been methodically proving ever since: that engaging with art — making it, experiencing it, losing yourself in it — does something profound and measurable to the human brain.

What cave painters knew (and the rest of us forgot)
Charles Leon
The Audacity of Ideas:

Economists, bless them, have spent centuries trying to explain why some nations prosper and others flounder, filling blackboards with supply curves, liquidity traps, and enough Greek letters to staff an Athens phone book. And yet the answer may have been hiding in plain sight all along

The Audacity of Ideas:

Political Decision Making. The Long and the Short of it.

Political Decision Making. The Long and the Short of it.

Uncertainty about the future is nothing new. In conditions of uncertainty, such as we have now, navigating towards a distant destination is perilous. Conditions change, viewpoints change, but if the destination is clear, then all decisions will point in the same direction toward the objective. Confidence, clarity and focus about this ultimate destination require perseverance and determination.

The long and the short of it is the problem. Short term thinking only leads to short term answers.

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Hot Gossip

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Hot Gossip

Gossip is part of our culture. It has fuelled tabloid newspapers, TV shows, and tell-all books and has found itself in many company cultures. The problem is that gossip, more often than not, tends to be negative. It’s a way of talking about someone who isn’t present and to whom you wouldn’t talk in the same way if they were directly in front of you.

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Six Socratic Questions for Critical Thinking

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Six Socratic Questions for Critical Thinking

The 6 questions of Socratic Questioning are still highly relevant today and indispensable to problem-solving. Problem-solving and critical thinking are indispensable to any creative pursuit or design thinking, where integrity, authenticity, and truth are important. In fact, the Socratic method of questioning is the essence of critical thinking.

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