DISCLAIMER: For the purpose of publication, DF stands for dumb friends and CF stands for clever friends. You are welcome to find other words that are more apt or entertaining for you personal reading pleasure.

Systems thinkers who don't think

System thinker who don't do "anything"

Spotting DFs Earlier

Go with you gut. You know but you don't like it.

Keep in mind that this early realization will make it easier to avoid getting rid of them later. See [[Hoe to Get Rid of Your Friends]].

Read John Seddon's Beyond Command and Control, to understand "failure demand."

If you feel annoyed, there is a clear signal.

When people tell you what you think, there is a clear signal.

AXIOM: DF's are unethical. AXIOM: Only CF can effectively deal with DFs. This is a derivative of the Conant-Ashby Therum.

People who are certain are DFs.

DFs are clear in small ways. They are smart enough to lie and conceal who they are and what their real goals are.

Ofthe DFs don't introduce you to other people in their network. This is to avoid the triangulation that investigative reporters use to discover misinformation.

To be clear DF are often quite clever but never in ways that are good for the rest of us. So their dumbness refers to the effects of their actions more that their cognitive capacities.

DFness is generally learned behavior. Often their friends [[See How to Get Rid of Friends and Family]] and families are DFs, though this is by no mean universal. So children are amazed by the DFness of their family and are stimulated to run in the opposite direction toward cleverness as fast as they can.

Sometimes DFness becomes a strange attractor that has rare and unpredictable escape trajectories.

CFs Become DFs

On the Rare Occurrences of DFs becoming CFs.

Correlation Ration

The distribution by gender:

DF's blame others.

DF's don's see their own patterns.

Double blindness and triple blindness.

DeFriending Work Associates

Religious Justification for Dealing Definitively with DFs

Hell on earth.

Balancing Your Own CF with DF Encounters

How many CF encounters neutralize a DF encounter. See Barbara Fredrickson's work on Positive to Negative Affective Ratio.

Monitoring DF Encounters

Glossary

DF Dumb friends CF Clever friends FEITCTAJ (you my thint this is Croatian but it not) Pronounced "fight cat ja" DFP

Interesting that the majority of the links focus on Gulliver in lilliput rather than the land of the Houyhnhnms