They’ve done a good job of making moderate people critical. I tend to give police the benefit of the doubt, and I was one of the people thinking, “well it’s not an easy task” last week, but the way complaints have been handled (i.e. not) since then is deplorable. Both the police and people in all [...]
competence
Continuing the series… Trying to understand human motivation and behaviour, a few years ago I finally came across this article: Motivation Reconsidered: The Concept of Competence, by Robert White (1959). According to the current APA abstract: Theories of motivation built upon primary drives cannot account for playful and exploratory behavior. The new motivational concept of “competence” [...]
Jeff Jarvis has been “thinking a lot about this lately: the need to risk and fail and not hold perfection as the standard of success.” That’s a ‘perfect’ jump-off to introduce an important concept I’m trying to promote: generativity: instead of evaluating things on how well they accord with preconceived models and assumptions, let’s evaluate [...]
Invert the notion of Web 2.0. Take all the principles we love and understand about Web 2.0 (or whatever you want to call it, or not call it) and apply them to the way we think about our own thinking. The mind works like the web, with continuous dynamic linking, aggregating, associating, categorizing, mashing-up, referring, and so on [...]
I could try to call this ”philosophy” but I avoid using the word whenever possible. There are too many meanings I don’t want to associate with.
This’ll be the last I write or say about this (… come to think of it, this is also the first I’m writing about this — but I’m already tired of it). So Barack Obama and Sarah Palin (and John McCain, and Joe Biden for that matter) don’t have much “executive experience.” Well it’s reassuring [...]
