Sorry about the late response thanking you both for your timely and welcome visits and comments. Your work is much appreciated and it is my pleasure both to read it myself and to mention it periodically here (as I will, no doubt, be doing now with yours as well, Katy).

Thanks again!

Thanks for your kind comments. “In the real world of management uncertainty is a certainty.” That pretty much sums it up!

It seems to me that the issue is the questions – they tend to stay pretty much the same – it’s the answers that change. It’s more difficult to generate, ask, and do the work suggested by the questions than to engage our perpetual wish that we can just check items off a list of answers provided to us.

Thanks, as always, for stopping in!

Thank you for your visit and your comments. You certainly don’t lack certainty about the Uncertainty Principle, do you? It is odd, though – even to many quantum physicists, including the one who opened the field, Einstein. On the one hand, he’s not alone, and on the other, many quantum physicists who suffer little doubt about the veracity of theorems like this seem to brush aside the very question of doubt the way the rest of us do when we, simply, think the evidence appears sufficient and we want to just move on.

I’m certainly not picking a side in this fight, and haven’t the training to do so. What I can do, though, is evaluate the arguments presented to me, and I see problems in many of them, and clear indications that far too much than is presently warranted is being made of the evidence offered for this or that idea. This is what leads me to listen with rapt attention when these scientists explain their fascinating – and even peculiarly plausible, often highly satisfying – theorems, but still to keep my options open. There is too much evidence of scientists from too many specialties turning out to have sometimes heated disagreements with each other (climatology is hardly the only or even most prominent one).

And yet, for all that, none of this means I disagree with anything you have said – and certainly not with your caution about using these insights as metaphors to explain what is happening in our lives in the classical dimensions. Many management gurus, sadly, are jumping on that bandwagon and claiming the most absurd connections between the two, often leaving the question of metaphor out of it altogether.

So, your comments are welcome and interesting in this context, and I thank you for them! I hope we’ll see you here again soon.