Kathy Sierra has written a great post on the “Whats” and “Hows” of being a good teacher/trainer. Unlike Johnnie Moore I’m not worried about lists if they give you useful information in a digestible form – especially if (as in Kathy’s post) the list is supported with references to online and book reading for those who want to explore further. My favourite? 8) Know a little something about “the Socratic method”.
There’s been an outpouring of blog entries about this week’s events but strangely I’ve felt no desire to write myself until now. I was lucky – running late for work I was still waiting at my suburban tube station when the network was shut down. That meant I spent the day at home, watching things slowly unfold on the net and the TV. Like many others I know people who were more closely affected, though so far as I know so far all have had lucky escapes.
I’m an occasional reader of Whiskey Bar (I don’t often have the time his posts deserve) but this seemed especially thought-provoking for the way it captures the feeling that the country in your heart is no longer the one you live in: […] It’s a strange place to end up: a man without a country, grudgingly supporting the country he no longer has because the alternatives are so much worse. But that’s how it goes, I guess, in this world of empires and religious fanatics.
Lots of people have raved about Google Earth (Gary for one), but for me one of the coolest features has to be the ability to overlay your own graphics which then become locked in place and move with the earth model…
Finally got around to joining Skype – so
I’ve changed the licencing for the material in this blog to pick up the recently-released UK version of the Creative Commons licence. Henceforth all original content created by myself and published on this website (including material previously published under different terms) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 England & Wales License.
I’ve been working through the books I added to my collection after the strategy course, especially Co-opetition and (just started) Thinking Strategically. When I was on the course, especially as we started to touch on the idea that certain strategies arise inherently from the structure of any situation (especially the [bliki]Value Net[/bliki]) it occurred to me that design patterns may be the natural way to express the thinking in a condensed form.
New on the bookshelf… Proactive Risk Management, Controlling Uncertainty in Product Development by Preston G. Smith and Guy M. Merritt
Inside Knowledge has a great article on the work my friend and colleague Euan Semple has been getting up to. He introduced me to blogging, so I’m really pleased to see him getting the sort of profile he deserves.