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Edward De Bono on Creative Thinking
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008Edward De Bono is a longtime guru in the field of creativity, specializing in horizontal thinking ( De Bono prefers the older terminology he coined, “Lateral Thinking“). Hat tip to David Armano ( on Twitter).
“Smoooooooke on thee Waaaaaaaater….”
Friday, March 28th, 2008This is something you don’t see every day. A traditional Japanese orchestra playing Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water“.
Hat tip to Mithras at Fables of the Reconstruction
To Start the Morning on a Lighthearted Note
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008One of the Superbowl Commercials.
Thinking in an Alternate Scale
Sunday, January 20th, 2008Dave Davison at Thoughts Illustrated recently featured the “Powers of 10” video by IBM; by today’s hyperkinetic attention span, it might be considered “long” but the impression it makes is very powerful, particularly on those not well acquainted with physics. Dave justly called it “9 Minutes of video you will never forget”. Here it is:
One of the themes that I stress with my students, when we are trying to analyze a primary source, is the danger of relying upon one’s own habitual perspective and frame of reference. An important element of a mental perspective is scale and the general tendency of people to visualize new concepts only in terms of the scale in which they go about their daily lives without any comprehension of alternate orders of magnitude leads to serious logical errors. The distortion becomes still worse, when matters of science or economic policy or planning are involved and the person trying to analyze is equally unable to conceive of using different time frames.
