Jeffrey Philipps posted: Why do we think people can immediately and effectively “think outside the box” when for their entire lives we’ve reinforced “coloring inside the lines”? credit: More4kids To my mind that’s really one of the crucial points! Most people that I would call “creative” are also not what one would call “conformed”. So [...]
Harvard Business School professor Niall Ferguson includes the following key concept (among others) in his historian’s view on globalization and the current financial crisis: Optimized global networks may be vulnerable to crises. credit: wikimedia commons This reminded me of a general optimization problem: we always try to find a special state (optimum) for a special [...]
Sorry for being down for some time but my wordpress crashed due to a furthermore (at least to me) unknown reason. Afterwards some busy working days followed from some enjoyable holidays restrained me from solving the problem. Now I used the chance to update my wordpress und do a slight redesign. I hope you enjoy
