TITLE: Knowing and Doing in the Wild, Antifragile Edition
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: April 27, 2014 7:20 PM
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Reader Aaron Friel was reading Taleb's Antifragile and
came across a passage that brought to mind this blog. Because
of "modernity's connectivity, and the newfound invisibility of
causal chains", Taleb says, ...
The intellectual today is vastly more powerful and dangerous
than before. The "knowledge world" causes separation of
knowing and doing (within the same person) and leads to the
fragility of society.
He wondered if this passage was the source of the title of my
blog. Knowing and Doing predates Taleb's book by nearly decade,
so it wasn't the source. But the idea expressed in this passage
was certainly central to how the blog got its name. I hoped to
examine the relationship between knowing and doing, and in
particular the danger of separating them in the classroom or in
the software studio. So, I'm happy to have someone make a
connection to this passage.
Even so, I still lust after
naming my blog
The Euphio Question.
RIP, Mr. Vonnegut.
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