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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”

Originally circulated on 21 February 2020 Hi fellow Ruminants & Groupies Apologies for the very slow start to Ruminant Pink Friday’s ™ in 2020. My weak excuse is that I was sprinting. I think it is appropriate to start the year with one of my favourite topics which is dominance hierarchies. Earlier I introduced thisContinue reading “Ruminations on life at the bottom of dominance hierarchies”

Originally circulated on 17 April 2020 Hi fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Lock Down Greetings from 21 day of lock down. This week I bewail  the lack of inspiration from you with no worthy submissions  from any  of you for  Ruminant Pink Friday’s ™ Hopefully this will change. This week I am going to focusContinue reading “Ruminations on the fabric of reality modelling, simulation and heuristics (part one)”

Originally circulated on 24 April 2020 Hi fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Lock Down Greetings from 28 day of lock down. This week I have received a number of worthy submissions for  Ruminant Pink Friday’s ™ which will be fleshed out in the coming weeks. Thank you for this.  This week I need to completeContinue reading “Ruminations on the fabric of reality modelling, simulation and heuristics (part two)”

Originally circulated on 8 May 2020 Hi fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Lock Down Level 4 Greetings from  day 42 of lock down. Over the past two weeks I have received a number of worthy submissions for  Ruminant Pink Friday’s ™ which I am thinking about. However because 42 is so significant I am assertingContinue reading “Ruminations on the precautionary principle & lock down”

Originally circulated on 5 June 2020 Hi fellow Ruminants & Groupies in Lock Down Level 3 Greetings from  day 70 of lock down. Over the past two weeks a number of people sent me the link for the free movie/documentary, “Planet of the Humans” and suggested this as a suitable topic for  Ruminant Pink Friday’sContinue reading “Ruminations on Planet of the Humans, criticism and the Malthusian debate”