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A Mundane Comedy is Dominic Kelleher's new book, which will be published in mid 2024. The introduction is available here and further extracts will appear on this site and on social media in the coming months.

The 52:52:52 project, launching on this site and on social media in mid 2024, will help you address 52 issues with 52 responses over 52 weeks.

This site addresses what's changing, at the personal, organisational and societal levels. You'll learn about key changes across more than 150 elements of life, from ageing and time, through nature and animals, to kindness and love...and much more besides, which will help you better prepare for related change in your own life.

Knowledge

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You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did- and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been - from Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

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The four cardinal virtues- courage (andreia), moderation (sophrosyne), wisdom (sophia) & justice (diksiosyne) are ordered by practical wisdom, realised by interaction within the world, the capacity for knowledge in action - Dave Snowden, KM Australia 2009 presentation

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A funny thnig happened on the way to the knowledge economy- we somehow got stupider - Matthew Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft, quoted in Time, 08/06/09

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You should never allow knowledge to turn into a spectator sport, by condoning rankings, awards, "hotness" &"incentives"" - Nassim Taleb (on Twitter)

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something - Richard Feynman

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We don't expect everyone to drive the same make and colour of car to work, nor should we expect everyone to use the same tools for collaboration. We are shifting to a multi-supplier app driven eco-system and the behemoths so beloved of IT departments need to be challenged. Context is everything in KM and the attempt to create single software supplier ecologies is very very dangerous - Dave Snowden, http://cognitive-edge.com/blog/entry/5738/..-as-sick-stigma-is-to-innov…

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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom - Isaac Asimov