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  • Manifestation of Truth Across Interpretive Approaches

    Manifestation of Truth Across Interpretive Approaches

    This essay explores how different interpretive frameworks influence our access to truth across disciplines. It argues that truth is not simply discovered but shaped—sometimes distorted—by the method of interpretation applied. Using examples from law,…

  • What if Inflation Isn’t What We Think It Is?

    What if Inflation Isn’t What We Think It Is?

    This article interrogates the established view of inflation as a neutral price phenomenon, exposing it instead as a mechanism of asymmetric value capture by dominant economic actors – part of a broader concept, ‘excumulation’…

  • Are Facts Possible Without Context?

    Are Facts Possible Without Context?

    Can facts exist independently of context? While facts are often seen as objective truths, closer examination reveals that they rely on underlying systems of meaning. This article explores a logical progression of ideas, leading…

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  • Data Management and ETL/ELT: Discipline and Order Are Your Choice

    Data Management and ETL/ELT: Discipline and Order Are Your Choice

    “There is nothing wrong in doing things right, first time” is Reason’s motto. Make Sense of your Data and ETL/ELT quality management. When it comes to data management and all ELT/ETL and data lineage matters in business, one can see what is physical such as cables but not what is travelling inside the cables and…

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  • How we present information matters as much as if not more than information itself

    How we present information matters as much as if not more than information itself

    Something a bit more enjoyable for Sunday: two visualisations reminding us that how we represent information is as important as the information itself. This point is often overlooked. Many visualisations focus on either the Wow! effect (with a sad “So what…”  question following as the reader can’t make any sense of the visualisation), or hold…

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  • ECJ, Schrems 2 and (real-world) data protection in the EU

    ECJ, Schrems 2 and (real-world) data protection in the EU

    Sharing a perspective and a few facts. Much has been said since the ECJ struck down the #PrivacyShield for US-EU data transfer. Earlier this week, James Sullivan, Jr. from the U.S. Department of Commerce shared a White Paper outlining the information that can help both US and EU organizations in this context. Interesting that the ECJ focuses on aspects related to…

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  • Your call is very important, which is why you are talking to a bot

    Your call is very important, which is why you are talking to a bot

    Technology is about serving human beings. Interestingly, some plan otherwise. Illustration with customers’ contempt by pushing costly, useless, dystopian bot assistants.

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  • DataVirus threat: targets are now your brain and decision-making

    DataVirus threat: targets are now your brain and decision-making

    Do you know what it is about behind the data you trust and use? Recently I had the opportunity to contribute to a LinkedIn post on what new can be said about data that wouldn’t have already been said. A rather difficult but very good question. Most approaches to data usually relate to the importance of its…

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  • Tesco creates 20K jobs. M&S wastes 7K jobs. Business as Usual?

    Tesco creates 20K jobs. M&S wastes 7K jobs. Business as Usual?

    Same market, same industry but different C-suite, obviously. We believe that less is more and that the post’s title should be enough. More on this topic CNN: UK’s biggest supermarket adds 16,000 jobs to cope with online shopping boom Retail Gazette: M&S to scrap 7000 jobs Reason‘s blogs:

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  • The Economics of #MeToo & Reference Checks: Do Recruiters Care?

    The Economics of #MeToo & Reference Checks: Do Recruiters Care?

    Abuse of power and backlisting are undoubtedly strengthened by dogmatic, arbitrary and unregulated practices of References / Background Checks leaving real risk prevention for businesses and candidates/employees often unaddressed. As a new landmark decision related to #MeToo has just been taken in the US, we are sharing here an article about “The Economics of #MeToo and How to…

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