How To Think | Roger Martin’s “Opposable Mind”

I like the focus on "dealing with complexity" and not "sweeping it under the rug". I'm wired to like books on "thinking" and this is very interesting book of the thinking genre. It reminds me of Marg Wheatley's "Management and the New Science". In that book she describes how our world is complex and that...

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I’ve got the “Curse of Knowledge”

I think you suffer from the "curse of knowledge". You don't know what it is like not to know what you already know. I've finally reviewed the student evaluations for the course I taught in the fall. This was my favorite comment. It is spot on. 👿 I found that the more I knew the...

Link | Resume Writing … It’s not about you! » Squawkfox

I really like the first point in "What is a killer resume" -- Your resume isn't about you. That hooked me. I scanned the whole series: Resume Writing Series » Squawkfox. Here is the summary list for a Killer resume. Lotsa good ideas. Enjoy. What is a Killer Resume? Your resume ... isn’t about you....

Link | JDarkRoom Backdrop Tofu & good ol’ vi | WebWorkerDaily » Zen Computing

I can always count on GigaOm's WebWorkerDaily for software gems. WebWorkerDaily » Archive Zen Computing: Toward a Distraction-Free Desktop provides a good list of editing tools that are distraction free. I particularly like JDarkRoom (beware it doesn't use all the standard Mac key sequences for example: save is Ctrl-S instead of the usual Command-S) and...