Entries by Barry Linetsky

Science, Human Action, The Search for “Truth”, and Consequences | Part 3: Science for Civilization, or Chaos?

© 2018, Barry L. Linetsky. All Rights Reserved. In moving beyond “common sense” and trying to understand and make sense of the nature of the world in which we live and function, there is occasionally a clash in perspectives that bubbles to the surface, as happened in a recent conversation between Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson […]

Science, Human Action, The Search for “Truth”, and Consequences | Part 2: Sam Harris–Jordan Peterson “What Is True?” Podcast Analysis

© 2018, Barry L. Linetsky. All Rights Reserved. The challenge Sam Harris faced in his discussion with Jordan Peterson on his Waking Up podcast episode 62, in my opinion, is that he couldn’t or wouldn’t comprehend the position Peterson was putting forth because it was outside of his philosophic and scientific paradigm of a materialist/positivist/empiricist worldview. […]

Science, Human Action, The Search for “Truth”, and Consequences | Part 1: Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson, and the Search for “Truth”

© 2018, Barry L. Linetsky. All Rights Reserved. In a recent podcast of a discussion by popular and best-selling authors Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson with the title “What Is True?”, these two high profile intellectuals attempted to discuss the nature of truth in science. Harris had received more requests from his fans to interview […]

New Book Review: “This book was a page turner.”

© 2018, Barry L. Linetsky. All Rights Reserved A new five-star review of my book The Business of Walt Disney and the Nine Principles of his Success appeared on amazon this week, courtesy of Jerry Kirkpatrick. Jerry Kirkpatrick is Professor Emeritus of International Business and Marketing, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Creative Innovation, Creative Destruction, and Walt Disney

Walt Disney was a master innovator across multiple disciplines. Many who worked with him directly classified him as a genius. Time magazine identified him as one of the great Builders and Titans of the 20th century. Throughout his business career Walt Disney continually sought out new technologies and pushed innovation and quality products to remain […]

Good Work and Creative Innovation

This excerpt from the book Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet by Howard Gardner, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and William Damon (2001) struck a chord with me. I immediately thought of creative geniuses like Walt Disney and Steve Jobs, but these observations equally apply to lesser minds who dedicate large aspects of their lives to working long […]

Did Walt Disney Really Say That?

Many quotes commonly attributed to Walt Disney have become Internet memes and find their way into articles and blogs as an inspiration for others. As inspiring as they may be, it turns out that many of these inspirational Disneyesque quotes are fake, in the sense that there is no evidence that Walt Disney ever said […]

It’s a Wonderful Way to Learn About Emergent Order

I have been listening to and learning about economics from Russ Roberts’ EconTalk podcasts  for years. Roberts is an economist and research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institute, and author of many books, the most recent being How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness. He’s also an […]

The Business of Fake News

The Internet and platforms such as Facebook and Twitter have democratized the news business. Anyone can now participate as self-proclaimed media, regardless of their credentials, viewpoint, and moral integrity. As media consumers, we hope that the criteria for acceptability are the veracity of the story and quality of reporting, but that’s not always the case. In […]