William Diamond

From Clockwork to Uncertainty-What Classical and Quantum Physics Taught Us about Reality and Ourselves

From Clockwork to Uncertainty-What Classical and Quantum Physics Taught Us about Reality and Ourselves For most of modern history, humanity believed it finally understood how the universe worked. The world, we thought, was a Machine. A vast, Elegant System of Gears and Levers Governed by precise Laws. If you knew the Forces involved and the […]

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Where I Stand After Thinking It Through – A Scientific and Moral Conclusion to the Abortion Debate

Where I Stand After Thinking It Through – A Scientific and Moral Conclusion to the Abortion Debate You probably noticed that the first essay slowed the abortion debate down on purpose.It cleared away slogans, forced definitions, and exposed where both sides cut corners. This second piece exists for a different reason. Once you strip the

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Abortion Is a Hard Question — Pretending Otherwise Is the Real Problem

Abortion Is a Hard Question — Pretending Otherwise Is the Real Problem Few topics shut down thinking faster than Abortion. Usually, very little listening happens after that. But abortion is not a slogan problem. In my opinion, it is a Moral Collision Problem. And I don’t think moral collisions can be solved by shouting louder or

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When Leaders Don’t Understand the Work, Decisions Become Dangerous- Part 2

When Leaders Don’t Understand the Work, Decisions Become Dangerous- Part 2 When Performance Pressure Destroys the Real Competitive Advantage There is a quiet assumption in many organisations that performance comes first and people follow. Motivation is treated as something that should “take care of itself.” In reality, the order is often reversed. When Motivation Collapses, Performance

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When Leaders Don’t Understand the Work, Decisions Become Dangerous

When Leaders Don’t Understand the Work, Decisions Become Dangerous I always doubted it and never thought it was real but there is a quiet problem in many Technical and Engineering Organizations. It doesn’t show up in strategy documents.It doesn’t appear on dashboards.And it rarely gets discussed honestly in boardrooms. That problem is this:– Decisions are

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The CEO Job Has Outgrown Milton Friedman

The CEO Job Has Outgrown Milton Friedman – Why Corporations Can’t Exist Only to Maximize Shareholder Value Anymore For decades, many companies behaved as if they had one purpose: Maximize Shareholder Value.That idea became common sense after Milton Friedman famously argued that a corporation’s only social responsibility is to increase profits within the boundaries of

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The Degree Isn’t the Leader: Why Experience and Skill Still Matter

The Degree Isn’t the Leader: Why Experience and Skill Still Matter Before I ever wrote “MSc Engineering Management” after my name, I was covered in grease, working on massive machinery as an apprentice fitter and machinist. I still remember the smell of cutting fluid, the heat from the workshop floor, and the hum of equipment

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Namibia, Africa Will Rise — But Not Through Slogans Alone

Namibia, Africa Will Rise — But Not Through Slogans Alone Leadership With Purpose, Not Positions When I look at my home continent, I don’t see a place without potential. I see a place without alignment. Africa is not behind because Africans are incapable. We are behind because the world went through revolutions, scientific, industrial, technological,

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Why I Don’t Believe There’s a Gender Pay Gap in the Way in the Way People Think

Why I Don’t Believe There’s a Gender Pay Gap in the Way People Think There Is! There’s a widely repeated claim that “women earn 77 cents for every dollar a man earns.” It’s emotional, easy to remember, and it sounds like an open-and-shut case of injustice.Here’s the problem I have with that argument: That number

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