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Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 363 of Re-Modified Lock Down Now Level 1. Remaining Life at Sasol: 6 days This will be my last Ruminant Pink Friday™ submission as a corporate drone. I am then going to classify myself as semi-retired and will try to get part time temporary gigs if anyone wantsContinue reading “Ruminations on how your corporate career ends”

Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 356 of Re-Modified Lock Down Now Level 1. Remaining Life at Sasol: 12 days This week I am going to rework a couple of my earlier submissions into a more generic form because it is a topic so close to my heart. This week the topic for RuminantContinue reading “Ruminations on scientific elegance, and a scientific fashion faux pas”

Aweh fellow Ruminants & Groupies in day 349 of Re-Modified Lock Down Now Level 1. Remaining Life at Sasol: 19 days My name is Bruce and I am a petrolhead.  A petrolhead is a car fanatic and specifically petrol internal combustion engines. I am not a dieselhead or even worse an electrichead. Those of youContinue reading “Ruminations on the guilty pleasures of being a petrol head”

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”