{"id":1842,"date":"2020-05-14T02:14:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T18:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abtax.org\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2020-05-15T01:00:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T17:00:36","slug":"the-grip-of-concepts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abtax.org\/?p=1842","title":{"rendered":"The grip of concepts"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>So, furlough payments have been extended in the UK but it&#8217;s clear the language is changing. We are now being encouraged back to work not because it is now any more safe (forget &#8220;R&#8221;, more people infected in aggregate means greater risk of catching the disease), but because they cannot afford to maintain the current levels of support forever. It&#8217;s oh so predictable and oh so sad.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>My latest addition in the Papers section discusses the effect having the wrong conceptual framework has on our ability to find the best solutions to problems.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abtax.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Conceptual-straitjackets.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Conceptual straitjackets<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, furlough payments have been extended in the UK but it&#8217;s clear the language is changing. We are now being encouraged back to work not because it is now any more safe (forget &#8220;R&#8221;, more people infected in aggregate means greater risk of catching the disease), but because they cannot afford to maintain the current [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-1842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-covid-19","tag-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abtax.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abtax.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abtax.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abtax.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abtax.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/abtax.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1852,"href":"https:\/\/abtax.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions\/1852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abtax.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abtax.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abtax.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}