Suppose you’re not happy with the quality of your sleep. You’ve already stopped doing the obviously harmful things (no more coffee at night), and your sleep has improved - but you’d like to work on it further. A coworker gives you an herbal mix with St. John’s wort and lavender....
Rhetorical Attack by Substitution and Buffer Overflow Recently, I've seen following rhetorical technique used in several places: 1. The speaker takes a secondary aspect of some concept and presents it as if the entire concept boils down to that aspect. Or simply provides their own definition of the concept -...
Companies send employees to systems theory courses to hone their high-load systems' designing skills. Ads pop up with systems-thinking courses claiming it’s an essential quality for leaders. Even some children’s toys have labels saying “develops systems thinking”. “An interdisciplinary framework for analyzing complex entities by studying the relationships between their...