Commentary In the world of Business Analysis there is a discipline called Process Modelling. Its output would be familiar to most people, consisting of diagrams to show how a business process, like say fulfilling an order, is supposed to work. As a discipline it strives for clarity and simplicity, through a complex syntax and method,…

Commentary Families saving for college and encouraging their kids to aim for the top are getting scammed by the left-wing college industrial complex. Colleges distort and outright lie about who gets accepted, education quality, and what it costs. If they were selling auto loans and used the same deceptive tactics, they’d be in jail. Columbia…

Commentary Many readers are no doubt familiar with nudge theory, a concept built around achieving compliance without using coercion. Ostensibly, nudges are designed to help people make better decisions. However, when governments resort to nudging, we must ask, who benefits? Is this nudge actually a push? And in what direction, exactly, are we being pushed?…

LinkedIn ran undisclosed social experiments on more than 20 million users for five years, testing the importance of weak associations or acquaintances in the process of positively affecting an individual’s job mobility. “The authors analyzed data from multiple large-scale randomized experiments on LinkedIn’s People You May Know algorithm, which recommends new connections to LinkedIn members,…

Commentary What precisely happened in the month of February 2020, when Anthony Fauci and cohorts were plotting their pandemic response, is still a mystery. Jeremy Farrar, of the Wellcome Trust, in his book on the topic says that during these weeks, they went to burner phones, clandestine video calls, and warned family members that something terrible could…

Commentary Put yourself in the mind of a smart, power-hungry politician obsessed with winning, someone with no moral compass. He is calmly reviewing the events of the past two years, looking for useful lessons on how to advance his or her career and causes in the future. What nuggets of insight would such a person…

Commentary America’s cultural elites have a pathological obsession with equal representation (meaning equal outcomes) in many areas of our society. Countless schools, universities, and corporations now have some sort of diversity and inclusion director, which is just a fancy title for an overpaid activist who helps shape outcomes based on the idea that when equality…

Commentary We live in an age where political elites are deliberately creating mass hysteria through the corporate-owned mainstream media by relentlessly pushing false narratives to foment drastic changes on American society. To take away cherished constitutional rights from ordinary citizens, the elite class must first put those citizens in a state where many of them…

Commentary You were warned about this first in July. Now, it’s happening. On Sunday, the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended that seniors ages 65 to 74 be moved toward the back of the line for the COVID-19 vaccine. The reason, says ACIP, is that “racial and ethnic minority groups (are) under-represented” in this…