The definition of Wisdom

• A datum is a measurement in five dimensions (length, width, depth, time, and a metric something like temperature)
• Data is a set of data of the metric within the other four dimensions
• Information is an abstraction or pattern gleaned from the data
• Knowledge is an abstraction or pattern gleaned from the information
• Wisdom is the understanding of the consequences of the application of the knowledge

Life is the Nexus of Order and Chaos

Life occurs at the nexus of order and chaos.  Most religions consider Order to be the Utopia they call Heaven.  Nothing changes, all wants and desires are satisfied.  But how can this Utopia allow for excitement or challenge?  It is merely a very comfortable existence.  So there is nothing to "live" for.  On the other hand all religions that have the concept, describe Hell as unbridled chaos.  Hell is normally full of fire and convulsive change.  So there is no way to live.

Again, the according to current scientific thinking, the Universe started out with the ultimate convulsion of the Big Bang (i.e. the ultimate Hell) and end with a cold, dead, relatively uniform and unchanging Universe (Heaven???).

Only in between the Big Bang and the cold, dead Universe can life exist.

Dr Aspee's Aphorisms

These are Aphorisms (some are extended) that I have authored or that say something to me:

To have success, you must allow for failure; most liberals don't want to allow failure.  These days parents teach their children that everyone is entitled to success whether they make an effort.  

All governments and governance has two and only two responsibilities. First, to secure the environs or territory for its citizens or team members to be able to interact including the rules for interaction.  Second to provide the standards and infrastructure for that interaction. 

Any organization's infrastructure includes both its physical and knowledge infrastructures.

Customers don't know what they want but they do know what they don't want.

Good judgement is based on experience, experience is based on bad judgement.

It's easier to critique than create.

Management is a non-value added activity for all organizations and should be out-sourced to the lowest bidder, but Leadership is more valuable than diamonds and must be retained and rewarded.

All value is created by knowledge, not land, gold or other products of knowledge.  It is the knowledge of the ways to use the land that makes land valuable.  The knowledge of how to refine gold and creates objects from it that makes gold valuable.