The Horizon of Reason

Exploring the boundaries of logic and perception

Month: November, 2008

The customer is always right

One of the adages often proclaimed in marketing is: “the customer is always right”. An often heard objection against this is that bowing to every whim of customers would make it very hard to achieve organisational goals, i.e. to make a decent profit.
To find out what this actually means, this statement needs to be unpacked [...]

The truth of Pi

My idea of a great time: smoking sheesha in Egypt, wearing my favourite T-shirt (ThinkGeek.com).
The print on the shirt consists of the first 4,493 digits of the number Pi in the shape of the symbol itself.
The number Pi, not the number 42 as some have proposed, symbolises the ultimate truth of the universe. Let me [...]