May 2024

UPDATED: Patterns – Part 2

In my previous post I discussed how media shape the narratives by which we interpret the world. I used as its example the near-hysteria surrounding changes in the capital-gains attribution…

Patterns – Part 2

In my previous post I discussed how media shape the narratives by which we interpret the world. I used as its example the near-hysteria surrounding changes in the capital-gains attribution…

First we take Manhattan

Student encampment at Columbia University. Photo courtesy Columbia Students for Justice for Palestine/X. There are snipers on the roof of the school where I got my MA. There are police…

Happy birthday, Daisy!

Daisy Group is 18! We’ve had some great clients and colleagues over those many years, and we’re still growing – with two new Daisy folks hired just this week! Happy…

Megaproject madness

Professor Bent Flyvbjerg, Executive Chairman and co-founder of Oxford Global Projects has written about proponents getting large undertakings approved by using “strategic misrepresentation” when they conjure up budgets. Strategic misrepresentation…

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