This article is part of the series “States and ethnicities influenced by vicissitudes in the Russian history”. State and ethnic boundaries in areas affected by Russian expansion may appear nowadays as a given, with a reality of their own, but lots of them were shaped, trimmed, sprinkled, disjointed or mixed…

⟵ Old Abrahamic religious mindsets in new IT companies (part 9) In the previous parts of this series I wrote about topics spurred by the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude of Gabriel García Márquez. In continuation to some aspects mentioned there, let me get into more detail about what…

No oligarchs, no mafia, totalitarian state control without any party structure, economic growth without significant natural resources… Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus since 1994, has some peculiar features in his leadership style among the plethora of authoritarian leaders that emerged after the demise of the Soviet Union. No…

⟵ Old Abrahamic religious mindsets in new IT companies (part 8) In the previous part of this series I wrote about issues that may appear between the observational side and the side immersed in the existing organization, especially when men start to pay more attention to the (initially) feminine psychology…

(Part of the series Perceiving complexity) The dynamic human sense of organization is something groundbreaking and increasingly disruptive in the long history of life on Earth. For a long time, the concept of complex life was largely defined by the DNA as the relevant organizational structure, with individuals belonging to…

⟵ Old Abrahamic religious mindsets in new IT companies (part 7) By the end of part 5 of this series, I mentioned in passing One Hundred Years of Solitude of Gabriel García Márquez as one of the Latin American cultural products revolving around the topic of living within a psychological…

⟵ The mindset of the populations of Siberian origin (part 15) As a general impression around the topics from the previous part, more attention should be paid to the Haydar aka approach of the authorities frenzying the population in an arduous, psychologically refreshing struggle, with the underlying feeling that the…

Part of the series Perceiving complexity ⟵ The mindset of the populations of Siberian origin (part 14) I ended the previous part with Çakıl Taşları (translation) of the Turkish singer Şebnem Ferah, as a musical example of realizing the raw unknown you need to face in real life when there…

⟵ Old Abrahamic religious mindsets in new IT companies (part 6) So how does the Apple ethos relate with all those aspects I wrote about in the previous parts? I notice that its way of dealing with the complexity of information the IT field supposes is so idiosyncratically Islamic. It…