Lunch group brainstorm of the day:
- Superbowl advertising is as much about hype as about the actual 30 seconds of actual exposure.
- The Food Network may have actually sold subliminal advertising to McDonald’s.
- Even though popular belief is largely debunked, there’s enough possibility to convince advertisers that value exists.
So, someone needs to buy a very […]
Tag Archives: mind
Blipverts
February 5, 2007 – 9:19 pm
Social Turing tests
October 13, 2006 – 10:11 pm
Attorneys in New York and Austin picked up my notes jury duty and sent dozens of their readers this way to review them. Then the defense attorney tracked me down at work just to ask a few questions about the case as routine followup.
So, I’m going to continue my newfound career in jury consulting […]
Dreyfus’s learning ladder
April 7, 2005 – 9:21 pm
The Dreyfus model of skill acquisition was popularized by Pat Benner in the nursing industry. The model aids understanding of learning and the development of intuition.
This is a much better approach to understanding the productivity gap among software engineers than the popular “packers vs. mappers” approach put forth in Chapter 1 of The Programmers’ […]
Herding Racehorses and Racing Sheep
March 19, 2005 – 12:00 am
Dave Thomas has a great presentation (that he somehow seems to enjoy giving despite doubtless hundreds of sessions) on the progression of people from novice to expert.
Great subtitle quote: “People improvement trumps process improvement”
Mostly, this was an application of the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition?. As Dave so eloquently explains, the model tracks a […]
MBTI
February 4, 2005 – 10:48 pm
Several MBTI tests have rated me an INTp, although I’ve never taken the official Myers Briggs. Over time, I’ve moved from extreme Introverted to only mildly Introverted, but the other measures have been stable.
20 Questions to a Better Relationship
February 4, 2005 – 9:42 pm
measure
result
eXpressive
5/10
Practical
8/10
Physical
5/10
Giver
6/10
You are a RPYG-Reserved Practical Physical Giver. This makes you a 1950s Parent.
You are relentlessly patient, loving, generous and devoted. You are unflappable. If on some rare occasion you do raise your voice or say a swear word in anger, anyone around to hear it will remember it (and think it was funny). At the […]
Om Asatoma Sadgamaya
November 15, 2003 – 12:00 am
There has been a lot of whining about The Matrix
Revolutions. Even those that appreciate the action complain that this was a weak resolution for a philosophically compelling story. Of course, these whiners are missing the point.
In May, I speculated that “human choice empowers us” was looking to be the cheap resolution in store. […]
