- Data deluge, complexity - experts can process the info better and can come to better conclusions than we can
- We give them parental-like authority
- Big problem
- Experts divide themselves into rigid camps, worshiping their own gurus, eschewing dissent
- We have to take them on and persist in the face of their annoyance
- We have to ask questions about their methodologies
- Google CEO actively looks for the arms-crossed disassociated person in the room
- Democratized expertise - shop girls get a say with the forecasting team for the company
- Best Buy introduced a gambling chip - employees could bet on stuff and they discovered important flaws in projects
Flashback Friday, a column on feminist notions ... To be fair - it's difficult to think of a non-self-defining feminist woman as anything but a tool of the patriarchy. I have to concentrate on the fact that even though a woman would not call herself a feminist, she would never endorse footbinding (to name a radical example) and it doesn't necessarily mean she is a doormat either. In fact, some of my favorite women scorn my feminism and hate it when they are judged solely on their marital status or gender. Ironically if you look at films made during the so-called liberal 60s and 70s you will see that movies align the woman's role less to what is happening politically in the big wide world and more to what is happening in pornography. The rise of the snuff movie mirrored the rise of violence towards women in the movies, serial killer paradise. Pornography always centers on the woman - probably in an attempt to hide the size of the penis. From my perspective, I am less un...
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