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No mistakes, no errors, no risk implies no value People who have never made a mistake have never taken a risk.   Do we want such folks to govern the country?   Your answer is no, I hope.    But with vast data silos, data lakes, and soon data oceans, anyone’s past mistakes will be documented and available at cost.   From cheating in the 4 th grade, to groping in the 10 th , to claiming unusual heritage in the 12 th , to being charged with drinking in college, to an advantaged business deal in their 20s, only a few years remain before a full online biography of everyone is accessible – and publishable. We may get what we think we want: purely clean, unspoiled, untested, unknowledged, and unable representatives in our legislatures.    Lucky us.

  The only way to keep alive is to keep moving. It seems to be in the nature of man to push questions to the brink of impossibility and beyond.   An error made in the problem solution for today can generate the impossible problem having no solution for tomorrow. Induction and analogy, though important, often prove to be the lazy man’s route to problem solving – particularly when they are imprecisely or inaccurately   applied.   While induction is a valid mathematical technique, analogy merely provides heuristics and example to help with problem understanding.  One good marker of an impossible problem is this:  The greater the number of solutions offered, the more difficult or impossible it must be.  -------------------------------- Confusion Theory.  Yes, there is a confusion theory.  It purports many things.  Included are studies that suggest confusion may enhance the learning of complex topics.  Another is that they g...