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For organisations beyond aviation, it is not about creating a literal black box; rather, it is about the willingness and tenacity to investigate the lessons that often exist when we fail, but which we rarely exploit. It is about creating systems and cultures that enable organisations to learn from errors, rather than being threatened by them.
Black Box Thinking
Matthew Syed
The Veil of Ignorance : Create a constitution for a country as though you could wake up tomorrow in the body of any citizen, of any race, religion, or gender, and be forced to live as them in the society you've created. A central idea behind liberalism.
My Peoples, the Time Has...
@G_S_Bhogal on Twitter
Schrödinger argued that it is not only the gas laws that derive their accuracy from the statistical properties of large numbers; all the laws of classical physics and chemistry – including the laws governing the dynamics of fluids or chemical reactions – are based on this ‘averaging of large numbers’ or ‘order from disorder’ principle.
Life on the Edge
Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden
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