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First circulated on 2 August 2019 Hi fellow Ruminants This week there has been an extremely worthy submission from an anonymous source for  Ruminant Pink ™ Friday and I will park the rules theme again to explore the  Gervais effect as explained by Venkatesh Rao. https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/.  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18581690-the-gervais-principle Let me state at the outset that thisContinue reading “The Gervais Effect”

Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 342 of Re-Modified Lock Down Now Level 1. Remaining Life at Sasol: 26 days In a few weeks this e-mail will cease and the Friday ruminations will move to my blog. Today’s topic is one that is considered very vulgar in genteel society namely what you get paid.Continue reading “Ruminations on Remuneration”

First circulated on 23 August 2019 Hi fellow Ruminants This week I have not received any worthy submissions. This Ruminant Pink ™ Friday  I am going to explore the topic of critical thinking versus intelligence. The source article is from Scientific American and is appended below. This references a book by Ken Stanovich which argues thatContinue reading “Why do Smart People Do Foolish Things? Critical Thinking versus Intelligence”

First circulated on 13 Sepember 2019 Hi fellow Ruminants It has been 3 weeks since my last ruminations. I have also not received any worthy submissions. This Ruminant Pink ™ Friday  I am going to return to the very topical topic of innovation. The source is once again the book by Safi Bahcall entitled Loonshots.Continue reading “On Innovation, Loons, Structure Eating Culture for Breakfast and Gardeners”

Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 335 of Re-Modified Lock Down Level 3. Remaining Life at Sasol: 33 days This week I am launching my blog and I wish to thank Leslie Luyt (fiancé of my niece who is an IT guru) for helping me navigate and start to learn the software involved whichContinue reading “Ruminations on Homo Sapiens Non Urinat in Ventum and Launch of the Blog ruminantpinkfriday.wordpress.com”

Originally circulated on 8 November 2019 Hi fellow Ruminants This week I have received a few ideas from colleagues which were interesting and thanks a lot for these. I’m still thinking about them. Today I have decided to return to Jordan Petersen who was the subject of a Ruminant Pink  Friday™  about a year agoContinue reading “Articulate your truth or pay the price”

Originally circulated on 29 November 2019 Hi fellow Ruminants This week I have received quite a few ideas from friends and colleagues which are all interesting and I have selected one. Thanks for the inspiration. Today’s topic comes from a very interesting blog site entitled Farnam Street (fs). The topic is complexity bias https://fs.blog/2018/01/complexity-bias/. ComplexityContinue reading “Complexity Bias: Why We Prefer Complicated to Simple”

Originally circulated on 29 November 2019 Hi fellow Ruminants Forgive me ruminants and groupies it has been two weeks since my last ruminations. I have a fascinating stock of ideas from participants and today’s idea came from one of you. Over (good) coffee  a few weeks ago a colleague and I and I were discussingContinue reading “Five Levels of Why”

Originally circulated on 6 December 2019 Hi fellow Ruminants Hi ruminants and groupies. This will be my last rumination for 2019 so I would like to finish with something suitably weighty. I have discussed this topic with some of you before and indeed I thought there was a Ruminant Pink Friday ™ submission on thisContinue reading “The Iron Law of Megaproject Management”

Originally circulated on 13 December 2019 Hi fellow Ruminants & Groupies Best wishes for the festive season and to very busy Ruminant Pink Friday’s ™ in 2020. I thought that last week would be my last submission for the year but I got such a fantastic submission from one of my more timid colleagues whoseContinue reading “The difference between a Snafu, a Shitshow and a Clusterfug”