Month: September 2013

Pre-game Giants view

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Great view with our pre-game tickets for this afternoon’s Giants vs. Padres game.

The Biggest Recruiting and Talent Acquisition Mistakes:

What impact can ignoring your Anti-Hires have? Well, if you are only aware of your false positives, you’ll tighten your screening criteria until you’re convinced that there are “just no good candidates out there”. Sound familiar? But is it really true? Not likely. It’s a big world out there. It’s only by knowing who you shouldn’t have missed, overlooked, or rejected that you can fully understand what constitutes a good candidate, how to identify them, and where to find them.

San Francisco

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Great view from my hotel room. Can see from Alcatraz to the tip of the Golden Gate.

How to hire. Really smart post about hiring and how to approach it.

The Mercenary. An epic and detailed narrative of Roy Petersen’s life working on the fringes.

Hi: Narrative mapping the world:

The above describes two-tier publishing. That is — the sketch tier is your quiet public stream. The extended tier is the more promotable top stream.

What’s nice about tiers is that there is an implicit amount of high-quality signal-to-noise filtering built into them. If someone takes the time to extend something, then that’s a good base indication of interestingness around that moment or place.

Goldilocks Management:

Instead, I think the most important value of a manager is to serve their reports: to unblock them, mentor them, and keep them pointed in a direction that best serves their needs and the priorities of the organization.

Somatic Work in the Digitized Library:

In the course of a couple generations, if digitized libraries become the new norm, new sensory profiles will reshape the somatic nostalgia of an entire population. This historical moment is at once terribly sad and incredibly sociologically interesting.

Good for what? Considering context in building learning objects.

I think we often view methods of tutorial creation as good or bad. Really, we would also be evaluating technologies and methods for tutorial creation based on the individual context.

How Experts Think:

Less thinking led to better solutions. More thinking led to worse solutions. Were grandmasters making their moves by inspiration?

No. Experts do not think less. They think more efficiently. The practiced brain eliminates poor solutions before they reach the conscious mind.