I’m just now on the tail end of dealing with accumulated bitrot in my Windows Vista tablet PC that is my primary computing environment. Most of it has gone smoothly, although the process can be tedious. Why you should need to reinstall the OS at periodic intervals remains a mystery to me.
Most of my [...]
“Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.”
- Laurence Peter
[Cross posted at FASTforward]
Dialogue Mapping: Building Shared Understanding of Wicked Problems, Conklin, Jeff
However you’re paying attention to the current external environment — the nightly news, newspapers, blogs, Twitter, or the Daily [...]
Here’s a fascinating animation reconstructing the flight of US Airways 1549 and overlaying the conversations between air traffic controllers and the flight crew. it really brings home the extraordinary job the crew did. A testament to the value of experience and training in responding to a crisis.
(h/t to Chris Carfi at the Social Customer Manifesto [...]
Tagged visualizationEat, Pray, Love is not the sort of book that I’m likely to pick up despite its tremendous success. Nevertheless, this TED talk by Elizabeth Gilbert, its author, is an excellent rumination and reflection on choosing the most effective emotional relationship between creativity and work. In a nutshell, the Greeks had it right in their [...]
Tagged creativity, Elizabeth Gilbert, TED
