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Re: My Personal Discoveries exploring Creativity

Roundhead — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:26:29 -0000

You are a wise man to spend so much time with your son, and an even wiser one to know the value of that relationship now, not later.

Re: Commodities during a malaise

Steven Cox — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 01:16:15 -0000

"That the government helped with its own stimulus package does not obscure the fact that internal demand is no longer an insignificant variable, tossed like a tail by an export tiger."

I expected to find very good market insights and found some fine literature as well.

Re: Peak oil? Not.

Jim Leis — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 18:16:03 -0000

Al Gore regrets backing the ethanol industry:

http://online.wsj.com/article/...

Re: Knowledge brokering

Jim Leis — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 06:12:20 -0000

I have looked into Spiral Dynamics, although not in-depth. My only comment is that it smells Progressive to me, which is anything but a complex system. Hopefully I am wrong about them. The fact remains that I can not understand why the healthy pull between ego and sharing must be explained in such a tortured manner.

It is competition (and its brother cooperation) at work, often named self-actualization, which I have tried to explain in my articles on competition.

Re: Knowledge brokering

Troy Camplin — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 06:17:00 -0000

Have you considered the fact that human social organizations are optimal at a maximum of 150 people, and that that upper limit might provide for the local strong ties, with weak longer-distance ties that allow for a larger organization with power law network structure?

Also, have you heard of Gravesean psychology? It has been developed further by Don Beck and Christopher Cowen, who together wrote a book titled "Spiral Dynamics". Don't let the new-agy title fool you -- it's a work that explicates an emergentist psychology and sociology, and applies it to organizational structure and development.

Re: Zotero

Jim Leis — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:26:20 -0000

Since this post I have noticed Mendeley, which shares much of the functionality of Zotero but is more of a stand-alone approach, imports and synchronizes Zotero entries. Fantastic.