Why do we struggle with long-term problems like climate change and mounting public debt that need immediate solutions. A 10-year study says in part its our procrastinating ways…
Category Archives: Linking Thinking
Art and Science
In art, it is easier to imagine history without Hamlet than without Shakespeare. But in science, it is easier to make do without the discoverers, but not their discoveries.
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Power Texting Tips
Tips for text messaging, a way to communicate that is archivable, searchable, can never be misheard or cut off by bad reception, and gets to the point sans small talk and interrupting the current flow.
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Zurnet NYC
A collection of New York City subway maps and schedules that you can download to your iPod (and some other portable media players). Simple and useful.
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The Emergence of Citizen’s Media
The newspaper (as we know it) is history. The panelists discuss its transformation in the digital age.
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The Art of Complex Problem Solving
Visual modeling offers a means to build a systematic understanding of complex problems. Via Idiagram.
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Four Modes of Seeking Information
Given all what we don’t know, it is rather distressing that a web site’s information design can offer only four search modes: known-items, exploratory, don’t know what you need to know, and re-finding.
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Beyond Knowledge and Competence
This proposed framework of reflecting, enquiring and creating bridges two dichotomies found in professional development: between learning and practice, and between work and learning.
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Survey of Canadian Attitudes toward Learning
The No. 1 reason Canadians report taking work-related training as adults is to perform more effectively in their current jobs, far ahead of earning more money or getting a better job.
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British researchers determine that for some tasks – like picking out a unique object in a field of many others – often the first place we look is where it is. In fact, higher visual processing can confound perception.