Ken Thompson points to this LA Times article by Jeffrey Kluger about simplexity – how apparently inconsequential things can have major effects in systems.
I’m not one for jargon, but I quite like this word simplexity. I’m fascinated by the paradoxical power of the simple and the complex. I think we too often miss it favour of seeing the merely complicated. (More on that in this essay I wrote a few years ago.)
Magic, relationship and changing status
leaving your props behind
feeling the power of presence… and what it really means to ‘read the room.’
we’re hungry for connection
What brings conversations to life is often missed when we aim too high
What I learned singing to strangers on the subway, and why emotional connections matters even more in a hi-tech era.
When facilitating, more and more I want to sense the next move at my fingertips
Letting go in order to get in flow…
A funny game illustrates what we may be missing in many of our meetings
Managing anxiety is a familiar challenge for facilitators.
Lloyd Davis is doing a great job blogging Podcastcon. So I don’t feel so bad about missing it. This section of his notes on a talk by Milverton Wallace especially
I found a lot to agree with in Patrick Thibodeau’s article Innovation is the most abused word in tech The iPad is about as innovative as the toaster. You can
Antony Mayfield writes about the psychological benefits of running. It is hard to run. To get yourself out the door is hard. To run the first mile in cold in
Paul Goodison commented on my post about Fundamental Attribution Error. He asks: Isn’t that the point of (traditional) branding i.e. to provide a shortcut to decision making for consumers of
