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Rapid Idea Improvement
By Bart VanderhaegenBusiness
Rapid Idea Improvement episodes
- Episode 107 - One of the less dramatic arguments of anti-vaxxers (on vaccine testing)
There are dramatic and less dramatic arguments of anti vaxxers. The dramatic ones are the ones dealing with the 5G chip implanted in the vaccine or the conspiracy theories of virologists and politicians to make the people obey and stay home …
But some arguments are less dramatic than those (but still false though).
An example of this kinds of arguments: The vaccines are not tested for the long term effects
17 min - Episode 106 - Why it is a fallacy to think you need to be “hard” when you coach top performers
What “hard” coaches really do, has nothing to do with coaching:
- You scare your athletes (which is not giving any advice)
- You can already cover yourself in the case of bad performance (which also has nothing to do with coaching)
7 min - Episode 105 - Two key questions for sales people
- How will I meet this expectations ?
- Why in that way and not another ?
(to be asked continuously)
15 min - Episode 104 - Why we CAN (try to) understand quantum mechanics
About interpretations of QM and why those "can" allow us to understand QM.
13 min - Episode 103- The 3 ways of using “Why?”
"Why did that happen?" is a common question.
You can, rationally, answer this question in 3 (very) different ways:
1) Giving evidence for the phenomenon happening
2) Giving "a" cause for the phenomenon
3) Explaining why your cause is a better explanations than some other cause (comparing explanations and retaining the one that survives the comparison, so the one that explains "best")
10 min - Episode 102 - The fallacy of “Tell me how you are paid and I will tell you how you will behave”
A short treatment about what is wrong, pessismistic and dangerous about this statement ;-)
14 min - Episode 101 - Why personality tests such as MBTI and Insights discovery are wrong, and why that is actually a good thing
Discussion about why personality tests "must be" wrong and why that is actually a good thing (that they are wrong)
I am referencing 2 specific tests (there are many more)
- MBTI test: 16 types of behaviours
- Insights discovery test: 4 colors and 8 types of behaviours
My arguments for saying that they are wrong are based on Karl Popper's epistemology (critical rationalism)
20 min - Episode 100 - Bruce Nielson on the 4 strands of "The Fabric of Reality" (book by David Deutsch)
Bruce Nielson (@bnielson01) explains the 4 strands of the Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch (@DavidDeutschOxf)
The 4 strands contain our 4 deepest theories about reality:
- The theory of evolution - (specifically the neo-Darwinian theory of evolution / Richard Dawkins refinement of Darwinian theory of evolution): how life evolves, how we can explain how species look like and behave, and how they came to look the way they look
- The theory of epistemology - (specifically Karl Poppers epistemology of critical rationalism): the theory about knowledge. What it is, how is grows, how we use knowledge etc etc
- Quantum theory (specifically the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, or "the Everett interpretation"): about the behaviours of the smallest constituents of the physical world
- The theory of computation (specifically Alan Turing's theory of computational universality): the theory about what a computation really is, and what the set of all computations is that we can express in physical systems (hardware)
1 hr 30 min - Episode 99 - A proposal to address the central versus local polarisation in organisations
Should we centralise or de-centralise activities in organisations ? And why ?
14 min - Episode 98 - Why the hard sciences are not exact and why the social sciences are (evidently) no different
I argue that both of these statemnts are incorrect/ incomplete:
- The hard sciences (physics, chemistry, biology) are "exact" sciences
- The social sciences (psychology, sociology, economics, ...) are "different", and therefore not "exact", so we can treat them differently
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About Rapid Idea Improvement
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A podcast about the theory of knowledge applied to all fields that interest me (management, economics, physics, ...). My attempt at understanding & applying the ideas of Karl Popper (and his…
epistemology "Critical Rationalism") and David Deutsch (author of "The fabric of reality" and "The beginning of infinity").