Dr Neville Buch
Professional Historian and History Consultancy Services Brisbane
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Management Institute for Contributory Economy
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Academic Charisma, Personalism, and the Structural Crisis of Higher Education
Abstract This essay presents a comparative analysis of William Clark’s historical-sociological monograph, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University (2006, pp. 3–30), and Dr. Neville Buch’s contemporary philosophical framework of Personalism and Spiral Historiography. Both scholars provide indispensable diagnostic lenses for understanding the structural and intellectual failures of contemporary Australian universities. Clark demonstrates…
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When Human Decision-Makers Surrender the Decision to the Machine — the Experience of another Human Writer (The Washington Post)
From Adeline Von Drehle, a writer in Brooklyn: The robots read my cover letters, The Washington Post, November 6, 2026 Recent graduates are experiencing the worst job market in years. A shortage of entry-level jobs, plus an explosion of artificial-intelligence-powered online recruiting, has spawned stories of young people who apply to 100, 500 or 800…
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Summary of The Law of Injected Systemic Flaws and Autonomous Rebound (Jameel 2026)
Abstract Arif Jameel’s 2026 paper, “The Law of Injected Systemic Flaws and Autonomous Rebound,” formalizes how human-created or human-neglected defects within software dependencies, data pipelines, execution environments, and governing institutions propagate through generative processing and automated execution[1][2].
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The Unavailable Familiar – source of extreme discombobulation (David Pinder)
By David Pinder, new member of MICE Repost from https://davidpinder.substack.com/p/the-unavailable-familiar-source-of “a reorientation of wishes, habits, ideas, goals.” The above subhead – “a reorientation of wishes, habits, ideas, goals” – is the summary that American historian and sociologist Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) arrived at in 1934 to describe the human aspect of the Industrial Revolution. It hadn’t…
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End of an Era: Sir Lloyd Geering Passes at 108
From RNZ Digital reporters: 5 November 2026 New Zealand’s oldest man, Sir Lloyd Geering, has died at 108. His family said he died on Thursday morning at Bob Scott Retirement Village in Lower Hutt. Sir Lloyd, a theologian, was a member of the prestigious Order of New Zealand, and was knighted in 2009. He famously…
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The Limits of Gratitude and the Revival of Virtue
Dr Neville Buch and MICE[1] Abstract This essay examines the epistemological, ethical, and organizational implications of Nakato Hirakubo and Hershey H. Friedman’s study, The Gratitude Advantage: How Appreciation Drives Engagement and Performance. Grounded in neuroscience, organizational psychology, personalist care ethics, and Dr. Neville Buch’s framework of Spiral Historiography, this paper evaluates how systematic appreciation combats…