Episodes
In today's episode of The Literate Caveman, we continue our review of Dietrich Dorner's book The Logic of Failure. This episode outlines some of the parameters for dealing with complex systems, and helps lays the foundation for the authors advice on goal setting
Published 07/21/23
In today's episode of The Literate Caveman we are continuing our review of The Logic of Failure by Dietrich Dorner. We are going to discuss two of the experiments Dorner conducted and see how he compares those to the reactor meltdown in Chernobyl Ukraine, on April 26, 1986.
Published 07/14/23
In today's episode of The Literate Caveman, we are introducing The Logic of Failure, a fascinating text written by German researcher Dietrich Dorner, and published in 1997. The book explores the author's research at the University of Bamberg in Germany, providing detailed examples of how people interact with complex problems, and helping the reader to formulate practical strategies to deal with complex systems
Published 07/07/23
In today's episode of the Literate Caveman, we wrap up our review of The Four Loves by C.S Lewis. This episode focuses on Charity, the final chapter of the book
Published 06/29/23
In todays episode of the Literate Caveman, we continue our review of C.S. Lewis' book, The Four Loves, with a discussion of the chapter on Eros, or erotic love
Published 06/23/23
Today's episode of the Literate Caveman continues our review of C.S. Lewis' book the Four Loves. Friendship, the forgotten love, is the topic.
Published 06/16/23
It today's episode of The Literate Caveman, we are continuing our review of The Four Loves, by C.S. Lewis. The premise of the book is that in Greek, there are four different, distinct words for love, with implications that are sometimes quite different and sometimes overlap. Today we are discussing the chapter on Affection, called Storge in the original Greek.
Published 06/09/23
This first episode of The Literate Caveman introduces The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis. The premise of the book is that in English people tend to use the words 'like' and 'love' interchangeably, and often incorrectly. In Greek however, there are at least four different words for love, and they all have different, more precise meanings. This episodes outlines this, as well as introducing the ideas of 'gift-love' and 'need-love' and how they relate to C.S. Lewis' larger ideas about love.
Published 06/02/23