I enjoy reading, so like many people I have set a goal for myself to read at least 50 books a year for the last couple of years. I read 45 last year, you can see my list on GoodReads. As I was getting ready to publicly commit to another year of 50-in-52, though, I [...]
Also tagged Creativity, Deliberate Practice, FIRST, learning, reading, reflection, thinking“Do you really think George bothered to ask for f***ing permission?” This was Kevin Spacey’s response to a question from the audience during the Q&A following the St. Louis premiere of George Hickenlooper’s movie “Casino Jack” at the St. Louis Film Festival. This specific question was related to getting legal clearance for the music used [...]
Also tagged Creativity, Work as ArtIn his foreword to Marc Prensky‘s book Digital Game-Based Learning, Sivasailam “Thiagi” Thiagarajan (@thiagi) recounts the following (emphasis is mine): Early in my life, my mentor explained to me the three paths that lead to the creation of knowledge. The analytical path, where philosophers reflect, meditate, and make sense of objects and events; the empirical path, [...]
Also tagged 2.0, Creativity, Games, Knowledge Work, learning, Life, Mastery, thiagi, thinkingI had been reading up on Ubuntu (the operating system) when I came across ubuntu!: An Inspiring Story About an African Tradition of Teamwork and Collaboration (the book) at the library. It was obvious from the subtitle that this was not a book about the OS, but the title pulled me in to at least [...]
Also tagged 2.0, ArtOfLiving, Balance, LifeThis meme crossed my desk on Facebook last weekend, and I thought my response was worth sharing here as well. – – — — —– Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen authors (poets included) who’ve influenced you and that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no [...]
Also tagged authors, Creativity, influence, memeA couple of summers ago I read Management of the Absurd by Richard Farson. The book lives up to its title and one that I heartily recommend. It contains a wealth of ideas and views on management that you don’t often come across. For example, this on the management of creativity: Real creativity, the kind that [...]
Also tagged Creativity, Innovation, linchpin, Work as ArtI’ve read the reviews, I’ve seen the video (also embedded below), and I’ve listened in on the webinar. And now that the UPS guy has made his afternoon delivery, I can finally read Steven Johnson‘s (@stevenbjohnson) latest book Where Good Ideas Come From – The Natural History of Innovation. (Though it is going to have to [...]
Also tagged Creativity, learning, Life, thinkingAs a thank you for pre-ordering Steven Johnson‘s new book Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation, I was invited to listen in on a special webinar where he spoke about the book and some of its ideas. Here are my (raw) notes from the webinar. Lots of good nuggets to be [...]
Also tagged Creativity, Social Networking, thinking, ToolsThis past weekend I had the pleasure of meeting author William Gibson when he came through St. Louis promoting his latest book, Zero History. He started off by reading a bit from the book and then opened it up for questions from the standing room only crowd. Here are some notes from the conversations that [...]
Also tagged Social Media, WilliamGibsonSince I signed up today for the Strange Loop software developer conference here in St. Louis, it seemed fitting to repost this article, originally published on my autism blog nearly three years ago. – – — — —– ——– Earlier this summer [2007] I read Douglas Hofstadter’s new book, I Am a Strange Loop. As Hofstadter mentions [...]
Also tagged autism, Complexity, Life, Strange Loop
