We’ve been hearing for years about “T-shaped people” (with deep knowledge and competence in one or two areas, crossed with wide knowledge across many domains); Microsoft’s Bill Buxton recently wrote about “I-shaped people”: These have their feet firmly planted in the mud of the practical world, and yet stretch far enough to stick their head [...]
Tagged as: analogies, creativity, education, gurus, innovation, knowledge, metaphors, skills, teams
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[Update: within minutes I decided to change the title to "Designing Ideas for Democracy" -- replacing "methodologies" with "ideas" -- which occurred to me after I thought about search results, then realized "ideas" is more appropriate anyways.] This will be the provisional mission for Open/Conceptual. As usual, “designing methodologies ideas for democracy” is something that [...]
Tagged as: analogies, civics, creativity, design, design thinking, enterprise modeling, epistemology, ideas, ideation, meta-methodology, metaphors, methodologies, philosophy
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I left a comment on this post at the LFPress Editor’s Blog about the traffic disparity between Tori Stafford-related livestreams (up to over 5,000 viewers) and yesterday’s Beyond the Crisis panel (55 viewers — it would have been 56 if I didn’t have to work). By chance, a food metaphor popped into my head: some [...]
Tagged as: analogies, diet, food groups, information, information diet, metaphors, news
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