Monthly Archives: February 2014

TAMING

 Wicked problems are never solved. At best, they are only re-solved, over and over again. Horst Rittle and Melvin Webber “Solving” is for tame problems; “Taming” is   for wicked ones. Joseph Bentley   Among the most challenging (and frustrating) aspects of wicked problems is that they do not get solved.  Here is how Horst… Read More »

“Going Meta…”

“Anything you can do I can do meta…”  Many will recognize this as a take-off of the song Anything you can do I can do better, from the 1946 Irving Berlin musical Annie Get Your Gun.  The quote appears in a recent book by philosopher Daniel Dennett titled Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking  (2013)  Dennett… Read More »