sloppy science and tribalism

I recently had a number of highly interesting discussions with various people.

Briefly (more later) they were

• with a good friend on the subject of self-development courses, and where most go wrong.
• with a man who's a 'hard-nosed' engineer, and who spoke standard ideas of a mechanical, objective reality, not realising the 'hard-facts of science' are but a house-of-cards, reliant on some very very poor (and incorrect) assumptions about the detail and minutia of life.
• with another good friend on the the Enneagram and on the subject of tribalism.

All were quite set and confident in their beliefs, until I asked some awkward questions.

Much much more soon.