Cradle of Analytics: Recent Episodes
Neil Hepburn
To paraphrase the late, great HL Mencken, "For every complex problem there is a train-of-thought this is logical, efficient, and completely misguided." Analytical thinking is a subconscious Western philosophy that often gets us into trickiest of pickles leading to a kind of logical insanity. But if we are mindful of this subconcious philosophy of top-down Deductive-Analytical thinking then we can better make sense of the world around us allowing us to take more control of our lives and careers. On that note, the Cradle of Analytics podcast hopes to start a new type of business conversation.
Why Mesopotamia had the right stuff and drove the appetite for Analytics. Music by Hannah Hepburn.
How businesses like Toyota, Nintendo, and Google have embraced bottom-up organic thinking. Music by Hannah Hepburn.
The story of how Friederich Hayek, Milton Friedman, and the Chicago School fooled themselves and others through a series of logical fallacies. Music by Hannah Hepburn.
How Western Philosophy has always been anchored in Deductive-Analytical thinking and how that all came to an end in 1953. Music by Hannah Hepburn.
How Deductive-Analytical thinking created a force multiplier effect for Western mathematics, science, and computer technology. Music by Hannah Hepburn.
How Indian philosophers developed and later codified Deductive-Analytical logic, and discovered a key insight that Western philosophers would not begin to understand for another 1,000 years. Music by Hannah Hepburn.
How early Chinese philosophers developed Deductive-Analytical logic, and why there was little appetite for it. Music by Hannah Hepburn.
How Aristotle and the Greeks forged Analytics, The Tool of Western Philosophy. Music by Hannah Hepburn.
Neil explains how he stumbled upon a psychology experiment that would forever change how he sees Western culture. Music by Hannah Hepburn.
Neil explains what the Cradle of Analytics podcast is all about. Music by Hannah Hepburn.