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Originally circulated on 21 August 2020 Hi fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Lock Down Level 2 Greetings from  day 147 of lock down – now level 2. Lock down level 2 started this week and this has enabled me to buy restorative beverages which help immensely with creativity. This week my inspiration for Ruminant PinkContinue reading “Rumination on doubt, conviction and Brent Scowcroft”

Originally circulated on 18 September 2020 Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Lock Down Level 2 Aweh from  day 175 of lock down – now level 2 but soon to become level 1. An appropriate greeting for Ruminant Pink Friday’s ™ henceforth is “Aweh”. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=aweh. This is a South African multi-purpose slang term often associatedContinue reading “Ruminations on Green Hydrogen”

Originally circulated on 2 October 2020 Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Lock Down Level 1 Aweh from  day 189 of lock down – now level  1. Some eclectic Ruminant Pink Friday’s ™ thoughts in no particular order. Firstly a quick continuation of appropriate South African slang for our times: Dog het gedog hy plantContinue reading “Ruminations on feathers, punk accountants, Krav Maga & a recap on Parkinson’s Law of buildings.”

Originally circulated on 16 October 2020 Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Lock Down Level 1 Aweh from  day 203 of lock down – now level  1. Todays dense topic relates to the work of the late Clayton Christensen on the topic of disruptive innovation. This inspiration came from a friend who was lectured byContinue reading “Ruminations on Disruptive Innovation”

Originally Circulated on 30 October 2020 Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Lock Down Level 1 Aweh from  day 217 of lock down – now level  1. Firstly some ruminations on death spirals. In nature there is a bizarre phenomenon called an ant death spiral. See the link with an intriguing video. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/25789/natures-creepiest-metaphor-ant-death-spiral. The “antContinue reading “Ruminations on Death Spirals and Do We Get Paid What We Deserve?”

Originally circulated on 6 November 2020 Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Lock Down Level 1 Aweh from  day 223 of lock down – now level  1. I am sure most of you have heard the expression, “Drinking the Kool Aid”. This phrase is an established piece of business jargon and in fact in 2012Continue reading “Ruminations on Drinking the Kool Aid”

Originally circulated on 13 November 2020 Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Lock Down Level 1 Aweh from  day 230 of lock down – now level  1. All of us on this list are corporate drones. Some of us, like me, are (ageing) lance corporals and some of you are privates and lieutenants with perhapsContinue reading “Ruminations on Investment Arithmetic, John Bogle the Gotrocks and Looking After Your Own Investments”

Originally circulated on 20 November 2020 Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Lock Down Level 1 Aweh from  day 237 of lock down – now level  1. Some of you may be wondering how strategy works and how decisions are made. This is a recurring Ruminant Pink Friday ™ theme. The short answer – ItsContinue reading “Ruminations on Obscurantism and the Dark Side of the Loon”

Originally circulated on 22 May 2020 Hi fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Lock Down Level 4 Greetings from  day 56 of lock down. Over the past week I have received no worthy submissions for  Ruminant Pink Friday’s ™. As I try to digest the flood of ludicrously wrong information we all see on Covid-19 and,Continue reading “Ruminations on how wrong you can be. The Relativity of Wrong – Not Even Wrong and Wronger than Wrong”

Originally circulated on 18 December 2020 Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Lock Down Level 1 Aweh from  day 265 of lock down – now level  1. An  appropriate theme for Ruminant Pink Friday ™ are the various tools we all use to avoid facing reality. Reality can sometimes be an unpleasant place and soContinue reading “Ruminations on Willful Blindness, Nelsonian Knowledge, Organic Untruth and Disinformation”