Last week I had the pleasure of meeting Dan Pink when he spoke at a lunch event here in St. Louis. While we were eating lunch waiting for the main event, my friend Gene said to me, “You should write a book.” Like many people I know, my initial reaction was along the lines of, [...]
Also tagged autism, Books, DeliberatePractice, learning, Life, the resistance, thinkingDuring 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” – [...]
Also tagged learning, thinkingEat food. Mostly plants. Not too much. These seven words make up the entirety of the “eater’s manifesto” that is the subtitle of Michael Pollan‘s book In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto. Of course, if the “doing” were as easy as the “saying”, Pollan wouldn’t have needed 200+ pages to explain the three rules [...]
Also tagged Books, Complexity, Life, Systems, Systems ThinkingTo help me plan out the direction and content for the Tramp and Tumble blog over the next couple of months I created a mind map to collect and sort the various topics that I want to discuss there. One of the things that I love about Mind Manager is that it has such a [...]
Also tagged Blogging, thinking, ToolsA mind map is a great tool, and mind maps should be a key part of any knowledge/concept worker’s tool kit. To supplement the hand drawn maps that are scattered throughout my notebooks and across whiteboards, I primarily use two pieces of mind mapping software: MindManager (Pro 6) and Personal Brain (5). (In the interest [...]
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