{"id":1623,"date":"2006-01-22T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-22T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1623"},"modified":"2006-01-22T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-22T15:36:00","slug":"1623","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1623","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>SUNDAY &#8216;S RECOMMENDED READING<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Here we go&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Hagel<\/strong> at <a href=\"http:\/\/edgeperspectives.typepad.com\/edge_perspectives\/\"><strong>Edge Perspectives<\/strong> <\/a>has pride of place for his post &#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/edgeperspectives.typepad.com\/edge_perspectives\/2006\/01\/zerosum_thinkin.html\">Zero Sum Thinking<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Hagel is one of those extremely smart bloggers whom I wish posted more often.  Understanding the implications of zero sum and nonzero sum dynamics is a critical one and it simply isn&#8217;t all that common due to the often counterintuitive nature of nonzero sum thinking.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rebecca MacKinnon<\/strong> at<a href=\"http:\/\/rconversation.blogs.com\/rconversation\/\"> <strong>RConversation<\/strong> <\/a>on the disturbingly cutesy, quasi-Pikachu, internet censorship initiative of the Chinese government in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/rconversation.blogs.com\/rconversation\/2006\/01\/chinas_big_bro_.html\">China&#8217;s Big Bro and Sis now have names and faces<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>It as if the Gestapo had access to Japanimation ( Hat Tip: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainrunner.us\/\">Mountain Runner<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/lounsbury.aqoul.com\/\">Collounsbury<\/a><\/strong> posting at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aqoul.com\/\"><strong>&#8216;Aqoul<\/strong> <\/a>on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aqoul.com\/archives\/2006\/01\/us_diplo_servic.php\">US Diplo Service: Out into the Field She Says<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Col, who is not known for lavishing praise on Bush administration officials, is pleased with the reforms initiated by Rice ( as am I). Like the military, the foreign service needs a major overhaul of its personnel and promotion policies that have only been tinkered with ad hoc over the last century.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Drs. Eide<\/strong> at <a href=\"http:\/\/eideneurolearningblog.blogspot.com\/\"><strong>The Eide Neurolearning Blog<\/strong>  <\/a>on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/eideneurolearningblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/aha-how-we-learn-something-new.html\">Aha! How We Learn Something New<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>I often discuss horizontal thinking and have speculated that it plays the role of a catalyst in stimulating insight. Here the Eides discuss research demonstrating bilateral brain processing old old and new data &#8211; &#8221; novelty-seeking with a purpose&#8221;  as a driver of innovation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Simon<\/strong> of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/simonworld.mu.nu\/\">Simon World<\/a><\/strong> draws our attention to <a href=\"http:\/\/simonworld.mu.nu\/archives\/153033.php\">three Jamestown reports on China<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUNDAY &#8216;S RECOMMENDED READING Here we go&#8230;. John Hagel at Edge Perspectives has pride of place for his post &#8221; Zero Sum Thinking&#8220; Hagel is one of those extremely smart bloggers whom I wish posted more often. Understanding the implications of zero sum and nonzero sum dynamics is a critical one and it simply isn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}