I’ve picked these from twitter in the last day or so.
“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’–it’s ‘that’s funny'” Isaac Asimov via @dearsarah
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.– Julius Charles Hare via @oncevision
I am always doing things I can’t do, that’s how I get to do them.” Pablo Picasso, also via oncevision
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
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
Viv picks out some nice ideas from Phelim McDermott on the subject of leadership. “We love the security of the illusion that someone is in
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
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
I really enjoy Chris Rodgers’ views on leadership. He argues against the assumption that it takes great leadership for organisations to succeed. He suggests that
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
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
These came to be via Tony Quinlan from Terry Tillman at 227company. “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than
Yesterday I got an email from Loren Ekroth of Conversation Matters. It touches on a favourite theme of mine and here it is verbatim. “Christmas
I was startled and glad, to read that leading Tory thinker Dave Willetts thinks this: The evidence has become stronger and stronger that inequality matters. That gradual accretion of the
I’m often alarmed by people who champion execution if in doing so they dismiss important conversations about feelings and meaning. At the same time there’s a lot of common sense
Deliberate practice and success in the spelling bee Abstract of research suggesting the more boring solitary practice is the best way to prepare for the spelling bee. Reinforces the theory
Lauren Collister defends emoticons and various other bits of linguistic shorthand against those who insist on the sanctity of language. I know I can be a language pedant tut-tutting the
