Better Questions and Al Yagoda

The Dunning-Kruger Effect has become popularized in recent days. Unfortunately it sometimes gets reimagined as "Stupid people often think they are smarter than they really are." Of course, that is not the issue. It is that people tend not to be self-aware of their own incompetence in a subject. People who are very ignorant in …

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Ministerial Recovery

We all fail sometimes. Sometimes the failure is minor... sometimes it can be spectacular. Sometimes one has control over the situation of the failure, and sometimes not. Failure is not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, failures are great opportunities to grow. But not all failures are equal to each other. Consider three forms of …

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