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Recently I have considered that in a number of settings we do not have simple lists for working on tasks that would benefit many. For example, in government, there is no backlog of tasks that have been identified that should be prioritized for future politicians and leaders. The result of this lack of backlog and tasks, is that they don’t know what to work on next, or can find things to do, unrelated to our needs. This helps them avoid work, because if we don’t know what needs to be accomplished, they can get away with doing things unrelated that simply benefit them or allow them to avoid work.
Additionally, since there appears to be a lack of creativity about which problems are worth working on, many fields would benefit from having some pointers about where to spend time and attention. This is known in mathematics as a notable mathematician left a list of important unsolved problems that did end up being fruitful for the development of the field.
Below I have prepared various lists by category on problems that seem very important to be solved. These problems may indicate that other problems are illusory, meaning it may be that people are working on the wrong objectives and tasks. The first list prepared is on social issues which appear to need resolution. The very first social issue and problem being tackled here, is the need to have lists from which to work, rather than no lists at all.
Draft, more soon
I am a retired executive, software architect, and consultant, with professional/academic experience in the fields of Moral Philosophy and Ethics, Computer Science, Psychology, Philosophy, and more recently, Economics. I am a Pandisciplinarian, and Lifetime Member of the High Intelligence Community.
Articles on this site are eclectic, and draw from content prepared between 1980 and 2024. Topics touch on all of life's categories, and blend them with logical rationality and my own particular system of ethics. The common theme connecting all articles is moral philosophy, even if that is not immediately apparent. Any of my articles that touch on "the good and virtuous life" will be published here. These articles interrelate with my incipient theory of ethics, two decades in preparation. This Book and Journal is the gradual unfolding of that ethic, and my living autobiography, in a collection of individual books that fit into groups of book collections.
This Book and Journal is already one of the largest private websites and writings ever prepared, at nearly 1 million words, greater than 50,000 images and videos, and nearly one terabyte of space utilized. The entire software architecture is of my creation. Issues of the book for sale can be found under featured. These texts are handmade by myself, and are of excellent quality, and constitute the normal issues of my journal that can also be subscribed to. The entire work is a transparent work in progress. Not all is complete, and it will remain in an incomplete state until death.
I welcome and appreciate constructive feedback and conversation with readers. You can reach me at mattanaw@mattanaw.com (site related), cmcavanaugh@g.harvard.edu (academic related), or christopher.matthew.cavanaugh@member.mensa.org (intelligence related), or via the other social media channels listed at the bottom of the site.