Wagner's MBA Law of Artificial Intelligence

Wagner's MBA Law of Artificial Intelligence: It remains unclear as to whether our future machine overlords will conquer us with "artificial intelligence" or "artificial stupidity," but, whatever strategy these collective devices use to overcome us will be, undeniably, artificial... and volitional...

Wagner's MBA Laws of Tending Burnpile

Wagner's MBA Laws of Tending Burnpile: 1. Don't fall in; 2. Don't lose control of the fire; 3. Don't get caught tossing in an old couch; 4. Don't let a branch grab your glasses and throw them toward the fire...

Wagner's MBA Law of Misguided Media Attention

Wagner's MBA Law of Misguided Media Attention: It is the misguided members of print, radio, and television press who are creating brands like Donald Trump and ISIS to attract audiences... for example, without press attention, these cowardly terrorist attacks against nonmilitary targets are virtually meaningless. Facts. Learn them.

Wagner's MBA Law of Moving to Canada

Wagner's MBA Law of Moving to Canada: British Food, French Technology, American Culture, Russian Healthcare, and Chinese Government... COME TO CANADA TO EXPERIENCE THE BEST OF EVERYTHING... ;)

Wagner's Law of Changing Your Beliefs: Change Your People to Change Your Beliefs

Wagner's Law of Changing Your Beliefs: Change Your People to Change Your Beliefs -- Frequently, people report they believe something about themselves or hold an opinion about their world, such as with shopping, religion, politics, or science, etc. However, these beliefs are rarely held independently of comparison with beliefs of others with whom we compare our beliefs. Others or groups with whom we compare our beliefs (or opposing beliefs) provide a social context for increases or decreases in cognitive dissonance. Feeling more comfortable with a choice between mutually exclusive beliefs or behaviors, such as buying an expensive product or supporting a religious, political or scientific belief, is a decrease in dissonance. For example, to buy an expensive car with your spouse, you have four options to reduce dissonance: 1. Imagine your spouse agrees with you; 2. Imagine your spouse's opinion is not important; 3. Imagine you agree with your spouse; 4. Compare your decision to another or group who agrees you. Change your people to change the intensity of your beliefs. Originally Published on Ideapod, March 8, 2016 https://www.ideapod.com/idea/Change-Your-People-to-Change-Your-Beliefs/56debc0e386bdf403750be8e

Wagner's MBA Law of Bad Publicity

Wagner's MBA Law of Bad Publicity: All bad publicity evolves into good publicity, because in the long term familiarity is often mistaken for favorability, and we'll gladly accept it as a concomitant branding effect... and this is how Donald J. Trump is doing so well in the U.S. Presidential Election.

Wagner's MBA Law of Learning Leadership

Wagner's MBA Law of Learning Leadership: When you've stood alone for what is right, then you'll know what leadership is all about. Somebody has to stand up and be the first one to run over the hill into enemy fire, and it is validating when others stand up and follow you into the fight; however, the right thing to do is the right thing to do, whether others follow or not.

Wagner's MBA Law of Ignoring Anti-Privacy Conspiracies

Wagner's MBA Law of Ignoring Anti-Privacy Conspiracies: If 2 or 3 people in government can't conspire to fix a 6 inch deep pothole on I-5 that thousands of people hit every day, dozens of people in government probably won't be able conspire to figure out what my Facebook posts mean... I'm guessing, but the odds are against the success of such anti-privacy conspiracies.

Wagner's MBA Law of Marxist Economies

Wagner's MBA Law of Marxist Economies: The net effect of all these Marxist, Communist, and Socialist schemes is that the person in charge (often the ugly guy, wearing poorly-tailored clothes, and brandishing lots of soldiers/guns) decides in "from each according to me; to each according to me" fashion who gets what from a shrinking economic pie...

Wagner's MBA Law of Not Looking Like I Need to Lose Weight

Wagner's MBA Law of Not Looking Like I Need to Lose Weight: The best way to not look like I need to lose weight is to lose some weight...

Wagner's MBA Law of Russian Expansionism

Wagner's MBA Law of Russian Expansionism: The Russians are not our friends, and they really don't like each other so well, either, and only respect the guy with the most guns, as history has proven, repeatedly, so keep your eye on Russians! "The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them, like Russians will." -- Jackson Browne

Wagner's MBA Law of the Fitbit Activity Wristband

Wagner's MBA Law of the Fitbit Activity Wristband: The Genius of the Fitbit Wristband is that it aligns calorie consumption and physical activity in the same day. Otherwise, we tend to minimize the calorie consumption and exaggerate the physical activity, such as, "I'm going to eat this now because I have a big workout planned for tomorrow."

Wagner's MBA Law of Micro-Aggressions

Wagner's MBA Law of Micro-Aggressions: With all this talk of micro-aggressive speech toward each other (i.e., 1 x 10 to the minus 6 power)... I have to say that 1.0 aggressions bug me, but 0.000001 (a millionth) aggressions really don't bother me very much.

Wagner's MBA Law of American Freedom

Wagner's MBA Law of American Freedom: We are free in America because we are willing to fight to be free; America is about guns and votes are simply proxies for guns owned by citizens, which is the UGLY TRUTH behind freedom. Disagree? Go ahead and make my day...

Wagner's MBA Law of Yams

Wagner's MBA Law of Yams: The taste of yams is acceptable when covered with butter, brown sugar, and walnuts... with some salt and pepper; meaning that they resemble the taste of yams in no discernible way...

Wagner's MBA Law of Transportation Security Agency (TSA) Screening Passengers

Wagner's MBA Law of Transportation Security Agency (TSA) Screening Passengers: If the TSA screeners are missing 95% (67 of 70) attempts to bring weapons on board aircraft, clearly it has not posed a large security threat.

Wagner's MBA Law of Hypocrisy

Wagner's MBA Law of Hypocrisy: It is better for our leaders to tell us to do right and themselves do wrong, than it is for them to tell us to do wrong and also themselves do wrong.

Wagner's MBA Law of Global Climate Change Science

Wagner's MBA Law of Global Climate Change Science: Climate change "doomers," journalists, and scientists are "flat Earth" thinkers who fail to consider the Earth as a sphere, that the Earth exists in three dimensions and time... There is a slight wobble to the Earth's rotation on its axis, so with the tilting on the axis as it revolves around the Sun each year and the wobble there is cyclic warming on one part of the globe, apart from daily or seasonal warming, solar flares not withstanding, but simultaneously the opposite is happening on the other side of the globe. [_I suppose that is the essential point of confusion; they can't always get data for what is happening on the exact opposite side of the Earth for the time period they are investigating... so they fail to consider it_] For example, melting Arctic Ice due to increased solar radiation would have to be accompanied by increased Antarctic Ice on the exact opposite side of the globe due to decreased solar radiation... climate change "doomers" are sort of having a "flat Earth" problem in reasoning... they are failing to realize that the Earth is actually a globe... not to worry... amateurs often fail to think in the three dimensions, including time and thus, they think they have the right answer, even though they are not considering all the variables...

Wagner's MBA Law of the "Giant Space Hijab"

Wagner's MBA Law of the "Giant Space Hijab": Shhh! Don't tell anybody about this terror... Watch out for the launching of a "Giant Space Hijab" that could be deployed as a massive shroud in orbit around the Earth half way to the Moon. The "Giant Space Hijab" could be the ultimate Radical Muslim Terrorist Device to create Solar Eclipses, Lunar Eclipses, and limit Solar Radiation (from periodic solar flares?) anywhere on Earth to create climate change! It could also disrupt astronomy and lunar new year festivities... I'm scared already! Seriously, in writing this semi-funny post, I'm trying to teach that the normal wearing of the hijab by Muslim women is nothing to be afraid of and I'm trying to make fun of the climate change doomers who don't understand science regarding solar radiation.

Wagner's MBA Law of Terror News

Wagner's MBA Law of Terror News: I'm done with TV news... All they do is spread terror. For me, I'm going to rely on the ONLY factual source of news: Facebook. Oh, and Wikipedia, too, which is just a slow, really slow version of Facebook without cat videos and selfies...