Words Seldom Seen Words Seldom Seen: Deracination SimonNovember 28, 20180 Deracination Verb: To pull up by the roots, to isolate or alienate. Example: The Indian Schools in the USA were...
Simon Says Famous or Popular SimonNovember 27, 20181 What is the difference between: Famous and Popular?...
Ideas Forecasting vs Speculation SimonNovember 26, 20180 Forecasting (in words) bears no relation to speculation (in deeds). Nassim Taleb Author of Skin in The Game...
Humor Pigs SimonNovember 24, 20180 You can’t stop politicians and lobbyists from acting like pigs at a trough. But in a democracy at least we have a...
Maxims Churchill on Negotiating SimonNovember 23, 20180 “To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.” Winston Churchill...
Hohokam Ancient Sonoran Desert People SimonNovember 22, 20180 Pueblo Grande Museum is located at the SE corner of Washington St and 44th St in Phoenix. I had a class of young people...
Words Seldom Seen Words Seldom Seen: Terminological Inexactitude SimonNovember 21, 20180 "Terminological Inexactitude" An erudite way of saying "Liar." A phrase used by Winston Churchill during a...
Ideas Rationalization SimonNovember 20, 20180 Humans have an almost bottomless capacity to convince themselves that they are right about whatever serves their...
Maxims Tinkering SimonNovember 19, 20180 "The knowledge we get by tinkering, via trial and error, experience, and the workings of time, in other words, contact...