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, Tools… not Microsoft, not social media tools, but: PEOPLE. A recent blog post by Dave Snowden and some commentary by Luis Suarez have reminded me of something Bruce Schneier said a while back (in 2004, actually): Since the beginning of time, people have always been the biggest security threat. That hasn’t changed because of computers. [...]
Tagged 2.0, Security, Social Networking, ToolsI am reading Clay Shirky‘s book Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age and will share my thoughts once I’ve completed it, but wanted to share this little tidbit now. The idea of true competition is one that really resonates with me and is something I’ve been trying to make sense of in [...]
Tagged 2.0, Books, competition, Creativity, learning, LifeIt is better to do nothing than to be busy doing nothing. Doing nothing is refreshing, a chance to recharge if only for a little bit. Your mind is free to wander where it may, with or without conscious intervention. Free association of thoughts runs rampant, resulting in ideas that would never have come to [...]
Tagged 2.0, Life, Work…you have already lost. Competing – and hopefully winning – can be a key part of any journey, but it shouldn’t be the destination. If reaching your destination is all you have to look forward to, what happens when you get there? Or as I tell my sons: the goal of competition is, of course, [...]
Tagged competition, Life, MasteryMusic. Movies. Higher education. What do these three things have in common? A solid entrenchment in the ‘good old days’ and an incredible unwillingness to engage the present, much less the future, of their industries. At least that’s the impression I have a little more than halfway through Anya Kamenetz’s latest book, “DIY U: Edupunks, [...]
Standardization of medicine as a result of the desire for predictable outcomes. Unbelievable differences between US practice of medicine and doctors in other parts of the world. Doctors as cogs in the machine as the “art” of medicine is systematically removed from the practice of medicine, despite the fact that those in the need of [...]
Tagged art, Books, Mastery, Work as ArtOn my way back to the hotel this evening, I stopped by the El Paso History Museum to visit “The Da Vinci Experience”, an exhibit of machines and models of quite a few of da Vinci’s many inventions and ideas. Over the years I’ve read many books about da Vinci, explored his notebooks online, and [...]
Tagged Mastery, Work as ArtIn his book Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism, author Roy Richard Grinker mentions chess legend Bobby Fischer (p. 63) as someone who may have been an undiagnosed autistic. When I read David Edmonds’ book Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How A Lone American Star Defeated the Soviet Chess Machine, I thought the same thing. (For [...]
Tagged Asperger's Syndrome, autism, awareness, Books, Life, parentingThe concept of “knowledge curator” has been creeping slowly from the back of my mind to the front over the past couple of years, and received a couple of jolts over the weekend that resulted in one of those elusive “aha moments”. What we need are curators of knowledge, not managers of knowledge. First, I [...]
Tagged Complexity, Concept Work, curate, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Work
