Think Deep Big Blue Chess Program applied to Organizations This is a popularization and simplification of Simon's ideas developed in business theory over a 30 year span of scholarship. My interest is just that I've heard people refer to decision-making [which I've since learned more often than not refers to Simon's ideas]. And I was just wondering if I had something to learn from Simon. I did.
Something about the possible purpose of emotions on the decision-making process, but not so much specifics. A specific example of such a possiblity that I've learned somewhere, outside this book, of an emotional toolkit key to reason and rationality: patience, persistence, optimism, and anticipation. Also meaning itself has something to do with this notion of the lenses of emotions on rationality: the appropriateness, for example, of the word statement in some contexts and, for example, the word message in others. This book provides a strong solution to C.P. Snow's Two Culture "crisis." (In my mind, this book in providing a simple solution makes C.P. Snow's Two Culture "crisis" look foolish.)
Another thing I learned about was the social value of docility. Some schools of Current Advanced Wisdom believes that thinking and learning depend upon docility. This school of CAW also believes that civilization protects us from the hostility of nature and its scarcity of resources. This is in contracts with another school of CAW which holds something a little different and a little contradictory about civilization. Neitsche and Freud both seemed to belong to this contradicotry school of thought. Neische holds that civilization is the spiritualization of cruelty and Freud that civilization is the sublimation of sexuality.
At any rate, I have yet to read Models of My Life, but I suspect, based on reviews, that this more common book would garner 5 stars from me.
Anything Goes Trivia
Megaton Man
Trevor
