Apparently, humans were not born to read.
“Reading is a cultural invention ” [Dr. Guinevere] Eden said. “There’s nothing designed in the brain to make us readers. Reading has only been around for 4,000 years, maybe a little longer. There are no systems in place from an evolutionary perspective designed for reading.”
Governments and organisations seem to revere documents as the means by which things are run… it’s interesting to reflect on how unnatural this may be.
Hat tip: Harold Jarche
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
Thanks to John Husband for pointing out this sharp clip from the Daily Show about blogs over on onegoodmove (Secondary hat tip to A VC)
A few months ago I chatted to Liam Mulhall who was doing some Open Source marketing for his Blowfly beer. Now (via Jake McKee) I see Vores Øl taking it
Kay Scorah and I enjoyed our first Day of Noticing workshop in Dublin in March. We had some very positive feedback from our first set of participants. So now we’re
