+ The June issue of Wired had a piece called Baghdad, USA on the training of soldiers at Fort Polk that dovetails nicely with Tom's Monks of War and recent trip to Blackwater.
+ Stillest Words refers to Tom 'the self aware liberal' as a counterpoint to true conservatism relative to the Big Bang in the Middle East.
+ The Show featured Tom prominently. Strange. When I emailed it to Tom he wrote:
Zefrank is politically-minded performance artist who caught me at TED or Pop!Tech a while back.
Thanks to Eric Anderson of Stillest Words (above) for originally commenting this link.
+ Sun Bin picked up on the Gapminder post and ran with it, interacting some with what I said about Malthus.
+ Mark Safranski had a major post called Creating a culture of "Mediciexity". He picks up some of what Steve DeAngelis has been writing about over at the The Enterprise Resilience Management Blog. Tom is one example of horizontal thinker par excellence.
+ Matt McIntosh sends in this 'Fred Kaplan piece skewering the overinflation of China's military potentialities': The China Syndrome: Why the Pentagon keeps overestimating Beijing's military strength.
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Comments (2)
"Tom is one example of horizontal thinker par excellence"
He is indeed.
While I wasn't unfamiliar with the concept (used to be called "Lateral Thinking") before reading PNM, Tom supercharged my interest in horizontal thinking. His description of how new, big or unorthodox ideas were shot down in the Washington bureaucracy struck a chord with me.
One of the many points in PNM that gave me much food for thought.
Thanks for the link Sean !
Posted by zenpundit | June 4, 2006 10:32 PM
Fun to see Tom recognize zefrank; looks like he presented, as did Dr B, at popTech!
Thanks for the hat tip above, and the weekend well wishes Friday. It was a smashing success. I wish the same for you.
Posted by Eric Anderson | June 5, 2006 1:26 AM