Dogs are animals of integrity. We have much to learn from them.
Year: 2009
Nassim Nicolas Taleb has a deserved reputation. His book, The Black Swan, has become a classic and, for me, was a wonderful and deeply educational read.
Here is Taleb’s recipe for our present, difficult times, as published in The FT.
By Paul Handover
Yesterday, a Post asked the question “Are we now living through a historic turning point in terms of attitudes and behaviours?”
Further browsing found a very thought-provoking article in The Guardian newspaper, online version, of the 6th May 2009. Let me encourage you to follow the link and read the article by quoting the opening and closing paragraphs:
What do we want to see emerge from the greatest crisis of capitalism for 70 years? If I had to answer in a single phrase, I would say: new models for a sustainable social market economy. This requires us to change as well as our states.
And the article closes with this (my underlining):
What you end up with is not just a systemic conundrum but also a personal challenge to every one of us. The challenge is to find a new balance in our double-lives as producers and consumers, at the same time consciously contributing to a larger set of new international balances between economy and environment, oversaving east and overspending west, rich north and poor south. That, too, is what I mean by a sustainable social market economy.
By Paul Handover
As it happened, just a few minutes after my Post on Louis Blériot I came across this epic adventure including a leg of over 4,000 km across the Pacific Ocean. It really does put the last one hundred years into contrast!
By Paul Handover
May you live in interesting times is reputed to be the English translation of an ancient Chinese proverb, the first of three of increasing ‘cursedness’, the other two being:
Anyway, a quick Google search will reveal many references to the saying, and others, if one is so minded.
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On this day, 100 years ago, the Frenchman, Louis Blériot, became the first man to fly across the English Channel!
By Paul Handover
A simple heading but, in truth, a very complex subject. This was brought home by a recent article in The Economist by Bagehot. That is “Politicians frequently lie. So does everyone else. Why all the fuss?”
Bagehot writes a Blog so those who don’t read the newspaper can read the rest of his thesis here.
By Paul Handover
Do you have a great story about your dog, or any dog, that shows that not only are they man’s best friend but that they do have integrity?
Well here’s your opportunity to share that on the Blog and with the wider world.
Just click here and tell your story via the comments link just under the title line.
By Paul Handover
These days, commenting on something that happened longer than 24 hours ago is probably passé. The last few days have been a bit busy but one couldn’t possibly not comment about this sad news.
Nice piece from the BBC and, thanks to technology, his voice lives on.
By Paul Handover
We all know that patting a dog’s back always gets a wagging tail in response.
But when everything is piling up against us, sometimes we forget to pat our own back.
By Paul Handover
Well, it’s been exactly a week since Learning for Dogs was promoted to a couple of Forums and a couple of hundred email contacts.
Just wanted to say ‘thanks’.
Thanks, first of all, to the good guys and gals at WordPress. They provide a really impressive product and lots of great support.
Thanks to Google for some really smart search optimisation tools.
Thanks to all the friends and colleagues who have given me feedback.
And, finally, thanks to all of you who have looked in at the Blog and especially those who have chosen to subscribe. As new Blogs go, it looks like this is getting off to a great start.
Going to take a break for a few days but, automagically, Posts will be published each day.
By Paul Handover
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