Category Archives: Strategy

02-Bump

MMXXII

Do a search on Google and you’ll find that MMXXII.com‘s place on page 6 is no longer preceeded, on page 3, by MMXXII.io (which no longer exists).

Thomas Hobbes’s describes life as “nasty, brutish, and short,” Keltner believes evolution has given Homo sapiens emotions like gratitude, joy, amusement, and compassion because they help us survive and build cooperative, ethical societies.

Dacher Keltner on the Science of Awe by Mark Leviton

28-AUG

Journey

Path to the Peak
  1. Get a big idea.
  2. Build an advantage.
  3. Improve it.
  4. Swap it out for a new one.
  5. Move quickly, see what happens.
  6. Make a new plan.
  7. Move again.

I made a hole in the forest so the light shined in, and started writing.

I put my mind to the pages of my journal, explaining myself to myself.

Luwi Ikabala

Make personal progress – choose the right path. Decisiveness sends you forward.

Libra by Eugenia Last

25-AUG

Representation

Stephen Crowley/The New York Times (Jan 2017)

Judy Woodruff: There are a lot of Democrats who are changing their registration.

Tamara Keith: There are not enough Democrats in Wyoming to help her win. That said, she has the Cheney name and is unlikely to disappear from the political scene, certainly.

Amy Walter: And a lot of Democrats nationally are writing checks to her. She has a very big bank account right now. She’s not going to spend it all down even in this primary. You can’t spend that much money in Wyoming.

Voters are pissimistic about the economy and think that Biden and Democrats aren’t doing a good job and believe Republicans would do better. That’s what you make the campaign about.

The more the campaign is about Donald Trump, January 6, abortion, the better it is for Democrats. It becomes really a choice election, instead of a referendum.

And even if it is a referendum between Biden and Trump, that’s probably pretty good for Democrats, not very good for Republicans.

PBS Newshour

13-AUG

Confrontation

2×2 Matrix

In a simple tit-for-tat strategy, one begins by cooperating and then mimics the other player’s moves. Tit-for-tat is nice in that it is willing to cooperate and it does not bear a grudge. It also cannot be exploited because any defection from cooperation will be returned.

By Robert Schenk @ ingrimayne.com Re: TitForTat

See also truth bias

11-AUG

Dedication

After the Battle

The officer standing in the center of this group of Union soldiers after the battle of Antietam is Lt. Alonzo Cushing, who died less than a year after this group portrait while fighting in Gettysburg during Pickett’s Charge.

Sitting at left is Evan Thomas, who was killed in ambush by the Modoc Indians a decade later in California.

02-AUG

Often Focused

Drinking at least two cups of coffee a day could decrease the risk of death from cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes.

Coffee is rich in polyphenols, a group of compounds with antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activity which can be divided according to their chemical structure into flavonoids and non-flavonoids.

National Library of Medicine