Another for my collection of frameworks: “After observing children on playgrounds in Norway, England and Australia, Dr. Sandseter identified six categories of risky play: …” exploring heights, experiencing high speed, handling dangerous tools, being near dangerous elements (like water or fire), rough-and-tumble play (like wrestling), and wandering alone away from adult supervision. What! No mention [...]
I assume they have all read the same book, because they use the same outline, start-up CEOs I mean. It has two parts. The opening, and the gonna have a revolution bit. First the prolog: Open with how grateful you are for the ideas and help the host (and/or the most powerful people in [...]
Another entry for my set of frameworks. The Overton Window is a political science term for the subset of policy ideas that a mainstream political actor feels comfortable espousing. These change over time. For example one time public policies aimed at encouraging the right sort of people to have children while discouraging the wrong sort [...]
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Two more little frameworks for the collection, this time about swearing. The swearing section of Pinker’s talk appears to be taken from the book Forbidden Words. There are five (practical) applications for swearing. Dysphemistic – Opposite of euphemism. Force listener to think about negative thing. Abusive – Abuse, intimidate, or insult others. Idiomatic – Refer [...]
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Pinker is a bit of a jerk. He is very dominate by virtue of being a fire hose and he never tempers his pronouncements with even the slightest bit of doubt. Thus you often feel a strong “now just wait a minute there!” emotion when reading or listening to him. All that said it can [...]
I’ve not read Stephen Prothero’s recent book “God is Not One.” But, listening to him interviewed last night I was much attracted to his list. What each of the eight major world religions treat as their big problem, and what their solution is. Religion Problem Solution Buddhism suffering awakening Christianity sin salvation Confucianism chaos [...]
Makes sense to me: Knowledge stocks -> Knowledge Flows Knowledge transfer -> Knowledge Creation Explicit Knowledge -> Tacit Knowledge Transactions -> Relationships Zero Sum Mindset -> Positive Sum Mindset Push Programs -> Pull Programs Scalable Efficiency -> Scalable Peer Learning Stable Environments -> Dynamic Environments I’ve not read the book. Three things I might wonder about [...]
I can’t believe I haven’t put this list in my collection of frameworks. These are the eight ways to untrain a bad behavior, from Karen Pryor’s Don’t Shoot the Dog. Shoot the dog Punishment Negative reenforcement Extinction Train an incompatible behavior Put the behavior on cue Shape the absence Change the motivation Number 6 is [...]
Monday, November 23, 2009
I was working with someone a while back who was in the midst of advocating for an alternative approach inside his organization. He was frustrated. He was deeply convinced of the benefits of his new approach and frustrated by his colleagues passivity. My first thought was to recall a few of my lists, for example [...]
Why do we read those blogs, email, chats, twitter, voice mails, newspapers, magazines, etc. etc. Presumably there is some logic to that. Some motivational schema. There’s money in the answer to this question. Will my students pay attention? Will my novel be a hit? Will my newspaper survive? So, surely this question has [...]
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