communication. community. cognition.
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Thanks… (if only there were a simple way…)
You know, if I could answer that question, I could make a great deal of money.
Truly “making things simpler” can be exceedingly difficult, because it generally involves rethinking every assumption, or taking the whole paradigm out for a thorough flogging.
But an easier exercise for most of us is “making things less hard,” or looking for those steps in a process that we include even though they get in the way. [Read more…]
If you want to get down to the essence of something, you strip away the unnecessary. Jamie Oliver successfully branded this notion to cooking, and became the Naked Chef. Dr. Charles Whelan applies the same formula, and calls himself the Naked Economist. While I applaud anyone who is interested in making the complex easier to understand, there is a point where you bypass the truth and simplify to the point of conjecture.
Whelan, in a recent article about income gap, shows exactly how far you can go in asking the right questions.
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“Making the complex simple through better communication.”
What exactly does that mean, anyway?
If you’re coming here looking for scholarly or hip analysis about communications, you’re going to get it, but not directly.
I want to have fun, and that means I’m going to write about things that intrigue me. Along the way, I’ll try to explain why those concepts are cool (to me, anyway.) And that process of explaining the complex, simply, is really just an exercise in communication.
So, welcome to my sandbox. If, as you read, you find a quirky analogy or concept that hit home or you can use, then by all means do so. The step beyond communicating a concept is the assimilation by the receiver. (Resistance is futile.)
Words are powerful little packages. We take them for granted, and don’t always consider all of the hidden meanings behind the words we choose. However, we too often look at the written word, and ignore the sounds of the same word as an utterance. Only then do you appreciate the rhymes, the meter, and the possibilities of mistaken pronunciations.
How much of what we call “lateral thinking” — the joining of previously non-adjacent concepts — is really the product of a pun or a bad translation? And how many words or concepts do we take for granted, even though they were steeped in mistake?
For my first example, I take you all the way back to the Fiesta Bowl, where Boise State knocked off the Oklahoma Sooners. [Read more…]
January 9, 2008 – Las Vegas, NV
(AP) First there was iPod, then iPhone, and now the latest addition to the iLife family.
The next phase of Apple’s plan to reinvent itself as a consumer electronics company was unveiled Tuesday at the 2008 CES by Apple CEO Steve Jobs, and it received a warm reception from Wall Street. The touch-screen-controlled device answers the phone, babysits the kids, watches soap operas, shops for groceries, and has a unique killer app: a reminder function.
Jobs received a thunderous applause for the unveiling of iWife, the digital spouse for all of us. [Read more…]
Deep thinks. Hurt brain. So now for something simple.
I just want to wish a “Happy Otherversary” to my wife, Brenda. We met on the evening of January 10th, 1998, at an office Christmas Holiday party.
Yes, the party was late by a good three weeks or so. Our party planners didn’t get the funding approved until after all of the suitable venues were booked, so we had the party on January 10th. (We weren’t the only ones. Another television station in town had its Holiday Party that same night.)
So… how exactly do you meet a co-worker at an office party?
