A double-bill blog post with snarky comments about two trending ideas that I’m not much of an expert on. The state of disruption In a much-discussed paper from the beginning of the year, Park, Leahey, and Funk proclaimed that science is becoming decreasingly disruptive. This was somehow seen as a worrying trend, but imagine the […]
Category: Psychology
Intro video to the history and ideas of complexity science and networks
I needed a video presenting the historical development of ideas behind the complexity and network science in 20 minutes—an impossible task of course (especially since I couldn’t spend too much time on prepping it). Anyway, someone out there could be interested, so here it is: Some credits not stated in the video: The starling murmuration […]
The ability to unfocus
(I’m sure there are tonnes of literature and science on this topic that I don’t know of, so the purpose of this blog post is to reveal my ignorance by thinking out loud 😊.) The ability to focus is such a universally esteemed virtue that there must be some catch. I came to believe it […]
Petter Holme 