Another gem from Richard Feynman. In this clip he uses the game of chess to illustrate how scientists go from making observations about the world to better and better theories that account for the observations. There’s a lot of depth in this simple analogy and it’s well worth dedicating some of your own brain cycles [...]
Tagged ThinkingThis has been lurking in my “to read/view” pile for months. The title from the original Boing Boing post sums it up quite nicely. It shows what is possible. Our challenge is to make it more common. The best 15 minutes I’ve spent in a long time. Enormously moving speech on the way the Internet [...]
Tagged internet, religionRussell Ackoff was one of the seminal thinkers in systems models of organization. Here is a short talk of his from 1994 that provides an excellent introduction to the topic. Learning to see and understand the systems behavior of organizations is an excellent antidote to much of the mythology around organizations that functions in lieu [...]
Tagged Ackoff, systemsI continue to be impressed by the insight and subtlety of the folks who put together xkcd. If you fancy yourself an organizational designer or believe that you are at the top of a food chain, you might want to consider this cartoon:
Tagged OrganizationI’m taking some time this Labor Day to attack a host of backlogs, including things in my RSS stream that are worth sharing. Here’s a link to an infographic created and shared by Online Schools. Created by: Online Schools
Tagged infographicThe New Edge in Knowledge: How knowledge management is changing the way we do business, O’Dell, Carla and Cindy Hubert Carla O’Dell and her co-author, Cindy Hubert, have been tilling the fields of knowledge management since the earliest days of the notion. In their latest effort, The New Edge in Knowledge, they take stock of [...]
Tagged Knowledge ManagementThis gem from Euan Semple made the rounds earlier this summer. I was too busy then to do more than note it. Ten ways to create a knowledge ecology TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 2011 AT 7:08AM A tweet yesterday prompted me to remember sage advice from Dave Snowden which I took to heart in my work [...]
Tagged Knowledge work, OrganizationAnother thought provoking cartoon from the good fools at xkcd. There are actually two interesting thoughts in this one. Yes, humans are pretty good teachers at that. More importantly, however, we manage to get by even with less than stellar teachers because humans are so supremely gifted at learning. Computers demand extraordinarily adept teachers because [...]
Tagged LearningSome details about what my partner in collaboration, David Friedman, and I have been up to lately. For the past few months, my colleague Jim McGee and I have been hard at work on a project we’ve named Collaborating Minds. It will be an online problem-solving community — with a unique membership recruiting strategy. The [...]
Tagged collaborationFinally had a chance to read a very interesting essay in the Journal of Cell Science titled "The Importance of Stupidity in Scientific Research." In the wondrous ways of the web, this little gem from 2008 found its way into my life by way of a blog post by Matthew Cornell in January of this [...]
