Friction is a good thing

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Johnnie Moore

I’m Johnnie Moore, and I help people work better together

… when you consider the consequences of losing it…

Hat tip: Stumbleupon where I’ve spent hours today seeing all manner of great stuff.

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I went down to Surrey on Friday for long walk and pub lunch with Neil Perkin. We’d originally planned to run a workshop about agile

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Antonio Dias offers a fascinating description of what goes wrong when drowning: What separates a swimmer from someone drowning is the way a swimmer acknowledges

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Concreting Complexity

I’ve been thinking about the urge to scale things lately – see here and here. I understand the concern with being able to effect big

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In moving house, I radically downsized my collection of books which I can highly recommend. I used to think I’d one day find a reason

Rewriting history…

Thanks to my Improvisation friend Kelsey Flynn I rambled into a letter cited in Margaret Cho’s Blog (go to Letter #1): Lately it seems like

Who says fun is dangerous?

I wanted to share this email doing the rounds this morning… AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE After every flight Qantas pilots fill out a form called a gripe

Yes, and…

A quick ramble on the nature of paradox, inspired by a blog on the value of both fear of the new and curiosity

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Emotional debt

Releasing the hidden costs of pent up frustrations

Aliveness

Finding the aliveness below the surface of stuck

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AdPulp, now with added attitude

Here’s a raised glass to the folks at the AdPulp blog. Always a good read lately it’s become particularly good. They are posting with attitude and I like it. Today

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Marketing 0.0?

Years ago Alan Moore showed me a brilliant clip of Bill Hicks ripping Marketing a new one. I just found it on YouTube: (Warning: Not Work Safe!) I used this

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Tracking an errant driver

Jon Husband finds “A fascinating little story about how events in meatspace can get addressed and worked through with the help of hyperlinks blogs and virtual do-gooder energy.” How a

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Solving economic problems with a netflix prize

Rob linked to Umair Haque’s suggestion: Solve America’s Employment Crisis With a Netflix Prize. The whole thing is worth a read but here’s the core idea: for each of America’s