Richard Wiseman researches luck and says:
Personality tests revealed that unlucky people are generally much more tense than lucky people and research has shown that anxiety disrupts people’s ability to notice the unexpected.
Interesting and feels connected to my own little mantra of notice more change less.
Hat tip: Charles Frith
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
Chris Corrigan tells a good story about storytelling. After Al took his leave from us, we debated the truth of these stories and I think the consensus was that any
Dan Pink gives a punchy TED talk about the adverse impact of incentives. He reports studies that show that offering incentives will increase performance for routine tasks. But for activities
I loved Dave’s post about the village which took road safety into its own hands. Frustrated by bureaucratic delays to safety measures, they ran a competition to create scare-cars to
My friends at Pipeline are doing a little barnraising on December 4th in the form of an event called Good for Nothing. A group of geeks tinkerers and ideas people
