Mar 05

Do Search and Social Networks Mix?

…All these issues affect how you want your information to be visible from one network to the next and over time. Are all these factors taken into consideration when Google decides to share your network? Behaviours emerge from networks, they are not predicted or calculated in advance…


Mar 02

You cannot walk in another’s shoes

The riddle of experience vs memory

A man described how he had been listening to a glorious symphony. At the very end, there was a dreadful screeching sound – “It ruined the whole experience”. But it hadn’t. What it had ruined was the memory of the experience.


Jan 23

Amateurism can win battles

“If Churchill hadn’t been such an enthusiast for this sort of operation and given them full rein…In a way it’s a celebration of amateurism, they were allowed to think what ever they wanted and try it out.”

Radio 4′s ‘Start the Week’ show included an interesting discussion about amateurism during World War II, or as it was titled: ‘The dodgy dossier that fooled Hitler’…


Jan 10

Crashing with the nose up

“Most merit-pay systems share 2 attributes: they absorb vast amounts of management time and make most people unhappy”

‘Crashing with the nose up’ was presented by James R.Crow at the KMWorld conference in October 2001…


Jan 10

9 Brains Rules for Education

An amazing talk delivered by Marja Brandon at Microsoft in 2004. Marja believed that education was failing to take advantage of advances in neuroscience that have led us to better understand how we learn. She founded a school and based teaching around 4 core skills

  • Critical and creative thinking
  • Problem posing and solving
  • Bold thinking – don’t think outside the box, live outside the box
  • Community connectedness – connect everything they do to the real world

Marja built a new school curriculum based around 9 brain rules…


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