To paraphrase the late, great HL Mencken, "For every complex problem there is a train-of-thought this is logical, efficient, and completely misguided." Analytical thinking is a subconscious Western philosophy that often gets us into trickiest of pickles leading to a kind of logical insanity. But if we are mindful of this subconcious philosophy of top-down Deductive-Analytical thinking then we can better make sense of the world around us allowing us to take more control of our lives and caree ...
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The Origins of Analytics Part 1 EP10: Meet The Flintstones
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Why Mesopotamia had the right stuff and drove the appetite for Analytics. Music by Hannah Hepburn.By Neil Hepburn
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The Origins of Analytics Part 1 EP09: Tales of Organic Architecture
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How businesses like Toyota, Nintendo, and Google have embraced bottom-up organic thinking. Music by Hannah Hepburn.By Neil Hepburn
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The Origins of Analytics Part 1 EP08: A Tale of Sophistry
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The story of how Friederich Hayek, Milton Friedman, and the Chicago School fooled themselves and others through a series of logical fallacies. Music by Hannah Hepburn.By Neil Hepburn
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The Origins of Analytics Part 1 EP07: Whither The Tool?
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How Western Philosophy has always been anchored in Deductive-Analytical thinking and how that all came to an end in 1953. Music by Hannah Hepburn.By Neil Hepburn
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The Origins of Analytics Part 1 EP06: Behold The Tool!
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How Deductive-Analytical thinking created a force multiplier effect for Western mathematics, science, and computer technology. Music by Hannah Hepburn.By Neil Hepburn
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The Origins of Analytics Part 1 EP05: India's Ambivalence
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How Indian philosophers developed and later codified Deductive-Analytical logic, and discovered a key insight that Western philosophers would not begin to understand for another 1,000 years. Music by Hannah Hepburn.By Neil Hepburn
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The Origins of Analytics Part 1 EP04: China's Indifference
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How early Chinese philosophers developed Deductive-Analytical logic, and why there was little appetite for it. Music by Hannah Hepburn.By Neil Hepburn
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The Origins of Analytics Part 1 EP03: Release The Tool.
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How Aristotle and the Greeks forged Analytics, The Tool of Western Philosophy. Music by Hannah Hepburn.By Neil Hepburn
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The Origins of Analytics Part 1 EP02: The Noble Savage
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Neil explains how he stumbled upon a psychology experiment that would forever change how he sees Western culture. Music by Hannah Hepburn.By Neil Hepburn
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The Origins of Analytics Part 1 EP01: Introduction
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Neil explains what the Cradle of Analytics podcast is all about. Music by Hannah Hepburn.By Neil Hepburn
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