I’ve been following Luis Suarez’ (@elsua) thoughts on a world without e-mail for quite a while now. His arguments have always made sense, and yet I’ve always had this nagging feeling of, “Yeah, but….” Last week I had a chance to view/listen to a recent presentation Luis gave about making the jump from e-mail to social [...]
Tagged Creativity, DeliberatePractice, elsua, Social Media, ToolsThe following ties in well with my recent post Parents should be leaders (not managers) and my overall theme for Autism Awareness Month, so I’m reposting it in its entirety. I first posted this in April of 2008. – – — — —– What would you think if your friend/neighbor/sibling told you that they had [...]
Tagged acceptance, autism, awareness, leadership, learning, Life, parentingI have had a lot of teachers throughout my life. Some taught me because they were paid to, some because they were supposed to, and some because they wanted to. Many of the best teachers in my life, though, had no idea that they were teaching me. (Or, perhaps more accurately, that I was learning [...]
Tagged learning, Life, Mastery, parentingOn the TV show NCIS the main character, Special Agent Gibbs, has two primary passions: catching bad guys and building boats. Not just any kind of boat, but hand made wooden sailboats. Which he builds in his basement. (A running gag on the show is the question of how he gets the boats out of [...]
Tagged learning, Life, Mastery, Work as ArtDuring a New Year’s Day seminar in which he spoke about some things he would be tracking and doing in 2010, Dan Pink made an offhand comment that “I like lists”. This comment, along with the coming of the new year and the inspiration from the seminar, prompted me to create a new “brain” – [...]
Tagged learning, Mind Maps, thinkingLast night I attended my first kendo class. As a beginner, I felt clumsy and awkward as I tried to coordinate my footwork, proper holding of the shinai, and basic overhead strikes. And awed as I watched the senior members of the club do some free sparring toward the end of class. I am looking [...]
Tagged Aikido, ArtOfLiving, Books, kendo, learning, Life, Mastery, passion, Work as ArtIn the letter that he sent along with the early review copies of his new book Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?, Seth Godin asks us to “read it through (twice if you can)” before we review it. I get the impression from his letter, and from his introduction to the book, that he expects many people won’t like [...]
Tagged ArtOfLiving, Books, DeliberatePractice, Education, learning, Life, linchpin, Mastery, WorkIn Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School, author John Medina discusses the importance of sleep (Rule #7: Sleep well, think well): Why do we sleep? It may be so that we can learn. The brain replays information learned during the day hundreds of times while we saw logs. [...]
Tagged brain rules, Complexity, dream, learning, meetings, organizations, sleep, WorkOne of our goals as a society is to educate our children, to pass along the knowledge of what has gone before so that the children understand where they’ve come from and how we got to where we are. At the same time, we are dependent on our children to create the new knowledge that [...]
Tagged Education, FIRST, kids, knowledge, learning, MasteryI love the Matrix movies. All three of them. (Four if you count Animatrix.) As someone interested in learning and knowledge management, I find the whole idea of being able to simply download knowledge and really, truly learn how to do something very cool. Need to know how to fly a helicopter off a roof and [...]
Tagged KM, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Work, learning, Mastery, Movies
