I’m enjoying Jonah Lehrer’s How we Decide. I’m currently on the chapter looking at the role of dopamine on our thinking. Getting a hit from dopamine is what gets people addicted to intermittent positive rewards – think fruit machines or World of Warcraft. This makes our thinking quite non-rational, for good or ill.
On the good side, I guess we might consider this bottle bank.
Hat tip: A tweet from Christian Heilmann
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
A quick ramble on the nature of paradox, inspired by a blog on the value of both fear of the new and curiosity
Well now you need wonder no more. A friend told me about this (no, seriously… my Feedster feed on improvisation turned it up). Is it
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My morning swim is a reminder of the value in accepting different styles—a lesson that applies to group dynamics too.
Leaked memo reveals what Whitehall really thinks of its new masters – Telegraph Some of the foolishness that inevitably surrounds hierarchy is made explicit here (tags: politics status hierarchy)
I’ve just stumbled across Jaron Lanier’s op ed from the WSJ: World Wide Mush. It’s like a trailer for his new book You are not a gadget. I found his
