Wrong Tool, Right Idea – Courtesy of Flickr user HikingArtist
Déformation professionnelle is a French phrase, meaning a tendency to look at things from the point of view of one’s own profession and forget a broader perspective. It is a pun on the expression “formation professionnelle,” meaning “professional training.” The implication is that all (or most) professional training results to some extent in a distortion of the way the professional views the world.
– Wikipedia
Sometimes it’s hard to step outside of your own mental model to achieve transformative thinking. Writers get “writer’s block,” software programmers experience “anti-pattern,” and we all find ourselves thinking “I’m in a rut” every now and then. In fact, it’s easy to get stuck in seeing the world only through the eyes of your profession: “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if [...]
Source: Hilary Davis
Just heard that the pre-orders for iPad are over 152,000. And, if the battery dies on your iPad, no need for a new battery…instead, you will need to send in your iPad and a new iPad will be sent to you. The service is about $100. Your data must be stored to access it via iTunes.
http://b2bnewz.com/tech/computers/610-new-ipad-for-bad-batteries.html
Source: noreply@blogger.com (Barbara Fullerton)
A review of How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
photo by Ellie Collier / CC-BY-NC
I play Magic. It’s a fairly complicated card game which calls on many of the same skills needed for games like chess or poker. Poker has suits, Magic has colors. And I hate playing black. Unlike other colors, when I play a black card I often have to sacrifice a few of my life points or one of my other cards. Good players know that this instinctually painful cost is often negligible compared to the positive effects of the card. But my gut reaction is still a big knee jerk “NO!”
I’m suffering loss aversion and I would be well-served to pause and analyze the situation.
Magic isn’t my only bit of nerdom. My partner and I play a lot of games. We host regular game nights and play just the two of us several times a week. His favorites are German-style board [...]
Source: Ellie Collier