Tolkien party
Date: August 8, 2022
Categories: general
The Hedgehog and the Fox – Wikipedia
Date: June 22, 2022
Categories: general
The title is a reference to a fragment attributed to the Ancient Greek poet Archilochus: πόλλ’ οἶδ’ ἀλώπηξ, ἀλλ’ ἐχῖνος ἓν μέγα (“a fox knows many things, but a hedgehog knows one big thing”). In Erasmus’s Adagia from 1500, the expression is recorded as Multa novit vulpes, verum echinus unum magnum. (The fable of The … Read More
Golden mean (philosophy) – Wikipedia
Date: June 21, 2022
Categories: general
The golden mean or golden middle way is the desirable middle between two extremes, one of excess and the other of deficiency. It appeared in Greek thought at least as early as the Delphic maxim “nothing in excess” and emphasized in later Aristotelian philosophy. — Read on en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_mean_(philosophy) nothing to excess
Lead user
Date: April 13, 2022
Categories: general
Lead user is a term developed by American economist Eric von Hippel (Von Hippel 1986). His definition for lead user is: Lead users face needs that will be general in a marketplace – but face them months or years before the bulk of that marketplace encounters them, and Lead users are positioned to benefit significantly … Read More
Yerkes-Dodson
Date: February 20, 2022
Categories: general
The Yerkes–Dodson law is an empirical relationship between pressure and performance, originally developed by psychologists Robert M. Yerkes and John Dillingham Dodson in 1908.[1] The law dictates that performance increases with physiological or mental arousal, but only up to a point. When levels of arousal become too high, performance decreases. The process is often illustrated … Read More
Date: November 26, 2020
Categories: general
“The world of technology thrives best when individuals are left alone to be different, creative, and disobedient.” —Don Valentine
Mysteries vs Secrets – Musings
Date: November 13, 2020
Secrets are “I don’t know yet” problems. The answers are known by *somebody*, and you can find them out if you meet enough people. Examples of secrets: how to hire great engineers, what take rate can you justify in a B2B marketplace, how do we make this user experience more beautiful? Some of these are … Read More
Bridges Transition Model | William Bridges Associates
Date: November 12, 2020
Categories: general
Endings Transition starts with an ending. This is paradoxical but true. This first phase of transition begins when people identify what they are losing and learn how to manage these losses. They determine what is over and being left behind, and what they will keep. These may include relationships, processes, team members or locations. Neutral … Read More
Transitions
Date: November 12, 2020
Categories: general
Transitions, done well, are both terrifying and thrilling. They present you with visions of dazzling new futures and dig up all your deepest insecurities. There’s a tendency to rush through them — to fill the empty space with something, anything to avoid the confusion and in-betweenness of an ending without a clear new beginning. But … Read More
If
Date: October 23, 2020
Categories: general
If— Launch Audio in a New WindowBY RUDYARD KIPLING (‘Brother Square-Toes’—Rewards and Fairies)If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or … Read More