Rube Goldburgh + Honda ==> an amazing commercial.

My mom was a "gifted and talented" teacher in an elementary and middle school.  Each year her kids had to design and build a Rube Goldburgh devices to compete in the Olympics of the Mind. 

I'm sure they'd appreciate this an amazing commercial. (Flash 6 required)

[Micah's Weblog]

Brilliant commercial. Of course, most of the systems we live with day to day have the complexity without the payoff.

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Don't worry about people stealing your ideas!. I just love this quote from Howard Aiken:

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

So true! [Gurteen Knowledge-Log]

I have a new hypothesis about why it's difficult to get people to contribute to knowledge management systems in organizations.

Conventional wisdow says it's because people are worried that someone will steal their ideas. I think that's a rationalization. I think the real fear is the fear of being ignored. The fear that the knowledge I share is so obvious or trivial that no one will care.  What's the old maxim from Mark Twain? "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt." (some input from my readers about the correct attribution of this quote. See my comments here for some more)

The issue may still be fear, but it's a fear that we need to address in a very different way.

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