Ah… a few more days of vacation for me, but for you…. some food for your brain! Anything that Mark Brady over at Fouroboros writes is a virtual feast for the noggin. Here’s a post from awhile back that is just a typical example of the depth of Mark’s Think Tank:

Growing up around a career Air Force father who, for a while investigated aircraft crashes, gave us boys around the Fouro-senior household an interesting jump on several concepts. Once we grew bored with the too-cool crash site photos we’d occasionally see, we actually thought enough to ask: How do you figure out what happened?

His usual answer: “We’re good guessers.”

He was only half kidding. What he’d explain was that it took certain knowledge of what things would and wouldn’t do–metals, aerodynamics, people in stressful situations, weather, etc–and then, you begin to ask yourself and your team questions as if you had no clue about those things.

Click here and scroll down to April 8 to read more of Systems Thinking: Airplanes and Other Organisms.