Akkam’s Razor

I saw this retweeted quote (via Twitter from Frank Roche) attributed to the recently deceased Russell Ackoff: “It is better to use imprecise measures of what is wanted, rather than precise measures of what is not.” On an intersecting tangent, I saw the below at John Baldoni’s Leadership at Work the Harvard Business Blog regarding a ...

The narrative of the wingnuts against Sonia Sotomayor is that she’s a racist, based on an out-of-context quote from a speech at Berkley: “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that ...