Sublime

The second book he bought was Drift into Failure by Sidney Dekker, which he passed out to all his IT infrastructure and operations people. Dekker’s book forces organizational managers to rethink blame and accountability in complex processes. When something goes wrong, it asks, “Should you blame the person? Or is it the system?”2*

Matzinger challenged the idea that the human body is as interested in “the self” as nineteenth-century

Many of us have heard the new findings: A heavy clipboard causes job interviewers to rate candidates as more “substantial.” A hard-backed chair causes subjects to drive a harder bargain in a negotiation. Using your non-dominant hand for a few minutes can reverse right-hander’s judgments of good and bad. Sitting up straight causes subjects to expres

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Given the task at hand and the high quality of the result, Jigoro seems to have achieved wonders. Judo remains one of the more effective martial arts and is a great foundation for aspiring fighters. But its flaws were inherent in Jigoro’s method. By choosing what to keep or discard, he acted as the authority. We might say his doctrine acted as a se

Crucially, this population was distinguished from the broader population of the disabled. In general, the model of disability, then and now, was one of deficit: the body as subject to “handicaps” that rendered it weak and dependent. But in the case of wounded veterans, the sense was that they, as people—and the economic power they represented in th