A FAQ

What is this place (he says and his own words echo back to him)?

This place is a place for some thinking on thinking.

What kind of thinking?

The only kind there is. It tends to have a first name these days--"critical"--but it is the same it has always been. We will make that point here more than once I imagine.

Why the reference to Prometheus? Didn't he bring fire to humans? He wasn't known for thinking was he, like Socrates was? Why use him and not call this "Socrates' Brain" or something like that? Doesn't Prometheus stand these days for technology and maybe a loss of innocence? Why use him?

You're right, he isn't known as the thinker in history. And of course he is a myth which most likely means he was a real person faced with real problems whose life was mythologized. But that aside, the reference is there for a reason. It is a kind of a label for the type of thinking that ought to be happening but isn't. That will probably be clear some time around here. But until then, this is all your gonna get.

So, it's philosophy huh? In other words, things will get muddier and muddier the more they are talked about?

I don't think so. My approach to thinking is highly pragmatic and more down to earth than philosophical. And I think it a good antidote to what is currently being served up in the schools of the academy. They pump out a lot of management professionals that think an awful lot and put out an awful lot of paper, but not much real thinking is going on. I hope to be able to show this here.

So no gobbledygook here?

Some of it might sound like gobbledygook but that will be mostly about the underpinnings of thinking and serve as a way to get back to first principles, to the foundations of thinking, so we can clear away all the brush. The rest will be quite practical.

So who is this for?

Anybody who thinks. Since I am a business consultant, I might tend to favor more thinking about business issues. But it also applies to the military, to government policy makers, to anybody who needs to think and think clearly. And that is everybody.

So practical, clear and no confusion here? That's what we'll get?

That's it.

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