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Ribbonfarm -- Just Add Water

'When you recognize a motif as potentially interesting, it is your stored memories sort of getting excited about company. “Interesting” is a lot of existing ideas in your head clamoring to meet a new idea. That’s why you are sometimes captivated by an evocative motif but cannot say why. You won’t know until your old ideas have interviewed the new idea and hired it. Motif recognition is a screening interview conducted by the ideas already resident in your brain. Or to put it in a less overwrought way, old ideas act as a filter for new ones. Badly tuned filters lead to too-open or too-closed brains. Well-tuned ones are open just the right amount, and in the right ways. Recognition must be followed by pursuit. This is the tedious-to-some laundry-folding process of moderated free association. It is all the ideas in your head interrogating the new one and forming connections with it. Finally, the test of whether something interesting has happened is whether you can extract a narrative out of the whole thing, once the interviewing dies down.'

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Eureka! Economic Illiteracy as Mental Substitution by Bryan Caplan

The "depletion effect" from Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow: 'Kahneman's book revolves around his distinction between knee-jerk "System 1" thinking and logical "System 2" thinking. When the costs of cognition rise, we use System 2 less, giving impulsive System 1 freer reign.' -- 'I propose a simple account of how we generate intuitive opinions on complex matters. If a satisfactory answer to a hard question is not found quickly, System 1 will find a related question that is easier and will answer it. I call the operation of answering one question in place of another, substitution... Faced with a genuinely difficult question, [people] answer a different, easier question, then conflate the answer to their question with the answer to your question. ...substitution is a plausible explanation of not only the absurdity of many popular views about how the economy works, but people's certainty about these absurdities.'

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january 2012 by adamcrowe

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Ribbonfarm -- Intellectual Gluttony

'...how you read can determine whether you become a pedantic bore who contributes nothing, or somebody who makes new contributions. The dangerous, mind-freezing approach to reading has a very good word to describe it: erudition. My biggest fear is that I might one day become erudite. Somebody who reads and collects knowledge for the hell of it, rather than with interesting and specific questions and unknowns driving the reading. Too much reading is only “too much” if it teeters towards erudition. One of the best defenses is to always start all your intellectual journeys with very small questions, growing them into big, ambitious, projects.'

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june 2011 by adamcrowe

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Wikipedia -- Strategic thinking

'In the view of F. Graetz, strategic thinking and planning are “distinct, but interrelated and complementary thought processes” that must sustain and support one another for effective strategic management. Graetz's model holds that the role of strategic thinking is "to seek innovation and imagine new and very different futures that may lead the company to redefine its core strategies and even its industry". Strategic planning's role is "to realize and to support strategies developed through the strategic thinking process and to integrate these back into the business".'

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november 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Freedomain Radio: The Bomb in the Brain Part 4: The Effects of Child Abuse: The Death of Reason

'The scientific evidence underlying the near-universal resistance to reason and evidence. If you want to change the world, you first must understand the unconscious barriers to thinking.' -- '"None of the circuits involved in conscious reasoning were particularly engaged," Western said. "Essentially, it appears as if partisans twirl the cognitive kaledoscope until they get the conclusions they want, and then get massively enforced for it, with the elimination of negative emotional states and activation of positive ones."

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october 2010 by adamcrowe

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ThinkCritically.net -- Standardising Arguments in Standard Form

'#1. Premise 1; #2. Premise; Therefore, #3. Sub-conclusion #4. Premise 3; Therefore, #5. Main Conclusion -- There can be any number of premises (as long as there is at least one) and any number of sub-conclusions (even 0). #Conjunctions should usually be split up and a letter assigned to each conjunct, because you are asserting that each of the conjuncts is true. #Disjunctions should not be split up, because you are asserting the entire disjunction. #Conditionals should not be split up because you are not asserting the antecedent or the consequent, only the conditional as a whole. #Modal expressions that are acting as inference indicators needs to be replaced by non-modal expressions. Other modal expressions may remain but make sure they are not being conflated if the same one is being used more than once. #Pronouns should be replaced by what they are referring to. #If the same assertion is made more than once, use a single letter for both. #Identify linked and convergent statements.'

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september 2010 by adamcrowe

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ThinkCritically.net -- Conditionals and Modal Expressions

'Three main types of complex statements: conjunctions, disjunctions, and conditionals. Conjunctions can be made up of two or more conjuncts joined together with 'and' or things that indicate an 'and'. Disjunctions consist of two or more simple disjuncts joined together by an ‘or’. used in one of two ways; inclusively or exclusively. Inclusive ‘or’ is when you are asserting that at least one of two statements is true. Exclusive ‘or’ is when you are asserting that exactly one of two statements is true. Conditionals are statements or sentences of the form ‘If A then B’, where A and B are statements. The two parts of a conditional are called the antecedent and consequent. A conditional is of the form ‘If [antecedent], then [consequent]‘. Conditionals are not arguments, they do not assert either A or B, they only assert the relationship between A and B. Modal expressions can be used to make statements about necessary truths, contingent truths, capacities, or as inference indicators.'

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september 2010 by adamcrowe

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ThinkCritically.net -- Introduction to Arguments

'An argument is a reasoned attempt to support, justify, or prove a conclusion via a series of statements. We use argument to try to find out what is true or false, or to convince others of a conclusion. Arguments are constructed from declarative sentences which are sentences that express a claim that something is the case. Declarative sentences can be true or false. Statements are declarations. The may be a whole sentence, part of a sentence, or even made up of more than one sentence. Statements can be simple or compound, just like sentences. A conjunction asserts that both of the conjuncts, meaning the parts, are true. There are two main types of statements in an argument. The conclusion is the statement being supported. The premises are the statements doing the supporting. Inference indicators are words that are commonly used in language to show that something is either a premise or a conclusion. Quite often you will run across arguments with hidden premises or implied conclusions.'

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september 2010 by adamcrowe

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Wikipedia -- Argumentum ad populum

'In logic, an argumentum ad populum (Latin: "appeal to the people") is a fallacious argument that concludes a proposition to be true because many or all people believe it; it alleges: "If many believe so, it is so." The argumentum ad populum is a red herring and genetic fallacy. It appeals on probabilistic terms... It is logically fallacious because the mere fact that a belief is widely-held is not necessarily a guarantee that the belief is correct; if the belief of any individual can be wrong, then the belief held by multiple persons can also be wrong. The argumentum ad populum can be a valid argument in inductive logic... However, it is unsuitable as an argument for deductive reasoning as proof... ad populum only proves that a belief is popular, not that it is true.'

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september 2010 by adamcrowe

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Wikipedia -- Argument to moderation

'An individual demonstrating the false compromise fallacy implies that the positions being considered represent extremes of a continuum of opinions, and that such extremes are always wrong, and the middle ground is always correct. This is not always the case. Sometimes only X or Y is acceptable, with no middle ground possible. Additionally, the middle ground fallacy allows any position to be invalidated, even those that have been reached by previous applications of the same method; all one must do is present yet another, radically opposed position, and the middle-ground compromise will be forced closer to that position.'

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september 2010 by adamcrowe

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Dictionary of Logical Fallacies: Suppression of the Agent

'"During the economic crisis, millions of people were thrown out of work." Who threw them out? The first answer to this would probably be, "their employers." The statment certainly invites the readers to infer this. But in fact, government, which destroyed the unfortunate workers' industries by means of taxation and regulation, is the causal agent that the passive construction of the statement suppresses or banishes from the mind. Dehumanization of the Action: "During the first two years of Garcia's administration, the economy grew rapidly." This sentence establishes a strong, though implicit, causal connection between Garcia's interventionist programs and good economic news. "But inflation escaped the government's control and the economy soon began to contract." Economic developments are now pictured as things with their own, non-human, principles of action. They are not caused by anything that humans like Garcia do, but proceed on their own way.'

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september 2010 by adamcrowe

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Dictionary of Logical Fallacies: Self Exclusion

'This is a form of the Stolen Concept fallacy: Using a concept while ignoring, contradicting or denying the validity of the concepts on which it logically and genetically depends. "You cannot prove that you exist." (proof presupposes existence) "Nothing makes any difference." (including this statement?) "There are no absolutes." (except this one, of course) "Words have no validity."'

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september 2010 by adamcrowe

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Dictionary of Logical Fallacies: Nirvana Fallacy

'A type of false dichotomy that compares an actual policy with perfection rather than an actual alternative. A good defense is simply noting, "Nirvana is not an option."'

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september 2010 by adamcrowe

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Dictionary of Logical Fallacies: Eclectic Fallacy

'Eclecticism consists of selecting the good parts from a set of ideas and discarding the bad parts. But this process implies that you already know how to do the selecting, and have a standard of judgment to use for evaluating the ideas. If you in fact do, then there is no problem and eclecticism is a valid intellectual process. But if you approach a set of ideas in a state of ignorance then you are not intellectually equipped to pick and choose from among them. You could not know whether what you accepted is true or false. Herein lies the danger of eclecticism if you are going to pick and choose you must already have enough knowledge to do the selecting.'

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september 2010 by adamcrowe

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Venkat -- The Dangerous Art of the Right Question

'Real questions frame things in a way that creates a restless tension, by highlighting the potentially important stuff that you don’t know. Insight questions can only be asked after you develop situation awareness. They are necessarily local and unique to the situation. When you are faced with a difficult situation, you will start as a prisoner of the unanswerable/too expensive formulaic questions, and your first job is to break out. The reason the weird “right questions” work is that they expose cracks in your default, formulaic mental model. By attacking those cracks, you force the useless default mental model to collapse, creating room for a new one. The right questions set you up for real success or failure. You never know whether a clue leads down a bunny trail or to genuine insight. Unique insight that buys you time is really the last competitive advantage.'

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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Center For Nonverbal Studies -- Walk

'Followers of Aristotle (384-322 BC), who founded the Lyceum in 335 BC, were known as peripatetics because they walked and underwent "restless practices" (Flew 1979:265) as they thought and shared ideas, rather than merely sitting in place. The two-point rhythm of walking's stride clears the mind for thinking. (N.B.: Perhaps, after telling the spinal circuits to "take a walk," the forebrain shifts to automatic pilot, so to speak, freeing the neocortex to ponder important issues of the day.) Many philosophers were lifetime walkers, who found that bipedal rhythms facilitated creative contemplation and thought. In his short life, e.g., Henry David Thoreau walked an estimated 250,000 miles--ten times the circumference of earth.'

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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NYTimes.com -- Abstract Thoughts? The Body Takes Them Literally

Embodied Cognition -- 'As they thought about years gone by, participants leaned slightly backward, while in fantasizing about the future, they listed to the fore. “How we process information is related not just to our brains but to our entire body. We use every system available to us to come to a conclusion and make sense of what’s going on.” -- The body embodies abstractions the best way it knows how: physically. -- ...when students were told that a particular book was vital to the curriculum, they judged the book to be physically heavier than those told the book was ancillary to their studies. “Something heavy is something you should take care of,” he continued. “Heavy things are not easily pushed around, but they can easily push us around.” They are weighty affairs in every tine of the word.'

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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Overcoming Bias: Two Kinds Of Status

#Prestige-status #Domination-status -- Comment: tom: "Only when we have no ‘near’ relationship to a person can there really be ['far'] prestige pride separate from ['near'] domination pride. Fear applies near only, but envy applies near and far." -- Comment: mjgeddes: "I claim there are actually 3 thought modes (very near, near, far), 3 types of reasoning, (deductive logic, bayesian induction, categorization), 3 types of intelligence (domain specific, rational, emotional), 3 types of causality (structure, action-potential, signal), 3 types of politics (conservatism, libertarianism, socialism) and so forth. I think there are 3 types of status, (1) Domination-status, (2) Prestige-status and (3) Charm-Status. Charm-Status: social skills, life of the party, good entertainer, sort of thing. 3-fold classification of personality types: Warriors (Domination status). Tycoons (Prestige Status) and Artists (Charm Status). I actually put Domination status as ‘very near’..." -- *nodding*

* psychology status body cognition embodiment embodiedcognition proprioception kinesthetic proximity nearfar criticaldistance thinking
february 2010 by adamcrowe

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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMAN MISJUDGMENT By Charlie Munger - Speech at Harvard Law School (1995)

'#This is a superpower in error-causing psychological tendency: bias from consistency and commitment tendency, including the tendency to avoid or promptly resolve cognitive dissonance. Includes the self-confirmation tendency of all conclusions, particularly expressed conclusions, and with a special persistence for conclusions that are hard-won: It's very important to not put your brain in chains too young by what you shout out. #Bias from deprival super-reaction syndrome, including bias caused by present or threatened scarcity, including threatened removal of something almost possessed, but never possessed: People do not react symmetrically to loss and gain. #Bias from liking distortion, including the tendency to especially like oneself, one's own kind and one's own idea structures, and the tendency to be especially susceptible to being misled by someone liked: Once you realize that you can't really buy your thinking you have learned a lesson that's very useful in life.'

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Boston Globe -- Easy = True

'Cognitive fluency is simply a measure of how easy it is to think about something, and it turns out that people prefer things that are easy to think about to those that are hard. On the face of it, it’s a rather intuitive idea. But psychologists are only beginning to uncover the surprising extent to which fluency guides our thinking, and in situations where we have no idea it is at work. -- “Every purchase you make, every interaction you have, every judgment you make can be put along a continuum from fluent to disfluent. If you can understand how fluency influences judgment, you can understand many, many, many different kinds of judgments better than we do at the moment.” “Disfluency functions as a cognitive alarm. It sets up a cognitive roadblock and makes people think, and it triggers a sense of risk and concern.” “Fluent things are familiar, but also boring and comfortable. Disfluency is intriguing and novel."'

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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Twelve Virtues of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky

'#Curiosity. Curiosity seeks to annihilate itself; there is no curiosity that does not want an answer. #Relinquishment. The thought you cannot think controls you more than thoughts you speak aloud. #Lightness. Let the winds of evidence blow you about as though you are a leaf, with no direction of your own. #Evenness. If you are selective about which arguments you inspect for flaws, or how hard you inspect for flaws, then every flaw you learn how to detect makes you that much stupider. #Argument. Truth is not handed out in equal portions before the start of a debate. #Empiricism. Do not ask which beliefs to profess, but which experiences to anticipate. #Simplicity. There is no straw that lacks the power to break your back. #Humility. Who are most humble? Those who most skillfully prepare for the deepest and most catastrophic errors in their own beliefs and plans. #Precision. #Scholarship, and a virtue which is nameless #The Void.'

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january 2010 by adamcrowe

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Wikipedia -- Confirmation bias

'Confirmation bias is a tendency for people to confirm their preconceptions or hypotheses, independently of whether or not they are true. People can reinforce their existing attitudes by selectively collecting new evidence, by interpreting evidence in a biased way or by selectively recalling information from memory. People tend to test hypotheses in a one-sided way, focusing on one possibility and neglecting alternatives. This strategy is not necessarily a bias, but combined with other effects it can reinforce existing beliefs. The biases appear in particular for issues that are emotionally significant (including some personal and political topics) and for established beliefs that shape the individual's expectations. Confirmation biases contribute to overconfidence in personal beliefs.'

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december 2009 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- The Life-Long Challenge of Differentiating Between Truth, Paradigms, Truisms and Plain Lies

'"Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm." - Donella Meadows' -- 'Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance can be deceiving; and, matters accepted as factual realities all our life may in fact not stand the test of simple logic... This is a reality we all have to live with and do our best to deal with honestly and openly. It´s one of the great challenges in life. It requires a flexible mind and mindset. And at times, it requires your admitting to be wrong. -- We are all molded by the information kit we are fed as we grow up and as we grow old. And, unless we actively take the effort and find the energy to question all the commonly shared "truisms", the spoon-fed "facts" of others, the things that "everyone knows" and that all take for granted, we are easy prey for those in possession of the means for mass propaganda.'

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december 2009 by adamcrowe

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The Argument From Morality by Stefan Molyneux

'The argument from morality is the most powerful tool in any freedom-lovers arsenal—but also the most personally costly, since it draws lines in relationships that can never be erased. The argument from morality can cost you friends, family, community—and so approach it with courage, and understand that, once you decide to use it, your life will never again be the same. Redefining "the good" is very, very hard. Throughout their lives, people make thousands of decisions based on certain moral principles—and it if turns out that those principles were wrong, then they will be forced to admit that their whole lives have been spent in the service of falsehood, or corruption, or evil—and that is more than most people can stomach. In order to preserve their illusions of goodness, they will fight any close examination of moral principles almost to the death!'

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december 2009 by adamcrowe

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Freedomain Radio Podcasts -- #252: Changing a Person's Mind: No Positions

Gisted: There are no positions; there are only methodologies. If you invest your ego in a position, people experience it as you attempting to dominate them. Don't do it. You are not trying to teach people conclusions. -- People think you have achieved your conclusions in the same way they have achieved their conclusions: propaganda. People are taught propaganda because other people want to dominate and exploit them. Without having any methodology, people simply pick their propaganda and stick with it. -- When you come to them with a theory, they will divert all of their feelings of humiliation and subjugation (due to their experience of propaganda) onto you because they feel you are attempting to bully and dominate them. It's up to you if you think it's worthwhile talking to these people. I don't. -- You know the vast majority of people are irrational and come by their beliefs dishonestly. To be frustrated by the fact that people are irrational is irrational. Don't do it.

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december 2009 by adamcrowe

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Zen Moments -- My Favorite Liar

'What made Dr. K memorable was a gimmick he employed that began with his introduction at the beginning of his first class: “Now I know some of you have already heard of me, but for the benefit of those who are unfamiliar, let me explain how I teach. Between today until the class right before finals, it is my intention to work into each of my lectures … one lie. Your job, as students, among other things, is to try and catch me in the Lie of the Day.” -- And thus began our ten-week course. This was an insidiously brilliant technique to focus our attention – by offering an open invitation for students to challenge his statements, he transmitted lessons that lasted far beyond the immediate subject matter and taught us to constantly check new statements and claims with what we already accept as fact.' -- There is NO LIE!

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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Lesswrong:wiki -- Narrative fallacy

"The narrative fallacy addresses our limited ability to look at sequences of facts without weaving an explanation into them, or, equivalently, forcing a logical link, an arrow of relationship upon them. Explanations bind facts together. They make them all the more easily remembered; they help them make more sense. Where this propensity can go wrong is when it increases our impression of understanding." — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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Paul Graham -- What You Can't Say

'The most important thing is to be able to think what you want, not to say what you want. And if you feel you have to say everything you think, it may inhibit you from thinking improper thoughts. I think it's better to follow the opposite policy. Draw a sharp line between your thoughts and your speech. Inside your head, anything is allowed. -- It's not just the mob you need to learn to watch from a distance. You need to be able to watch your own thoughts from a distance. You have to take that extra step if you want to think clearly. But it's harder, because now you're working against social customs instead of with them. Everyone encourages you to grow up to the point where you can discount your own bad moods. Few encourage you to continue to the point where you can discount society's bad moods.'

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september 2009 by adamcrowe

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Ribbonfarm -- Some Pointers to Thinking Styles

'Take a look at this quiver full of twisty arrows I made up, to represent thinking styles.' -- Brill.

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july 2009 by adamcrowe

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Figures of Speech -- Teach a Kid to Argue

'I’ve worked hard at making my kids good at arguing. Absolutely. Why on earth would any parent want that? Because persuasion is powerful. Rhetoric originated in the lawsuits of ancient Greece, when citizens who weren’t good at persuading could lose their houses — or their lives. It was a staple of education until the early 1800s, teaching society’s elite how to debate, make public decisions, and reach consensus. It probably explains how the founding fathers managed to carve a nation out of 13 squabbling colonies. And let’s face it: Our culture has lost the ability to usefully disagree. -- My kids grew so fond of debate, in fact, that they disputed the TV itself. “Why should I eat candy that talks?” “A doll that goes to the bathroom? I have a brother who does that.” It was as if I’d given them advertising immunization shots.'

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may 2009 by adamcrowe

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Cracked.com -- 6 Brainwashing Techniques They're Using On You Right Now

'Studies show the brain is wired to get a quick high from reading things that agree with our point of view. The same studies proved that, strangely, we also get a rush from intentionally dismissing information that disagrees, no matter how well supported it is. Yes, our brain rewards us for being closed-minded dicks. So with a little prodding, the followers will happily close themselves in the same echo chamber of talk radio, blogs and cable news outlets that give them that little "They agree with ME!" high.' -- Oh dear.

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march 2009 by adamcrowe

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Michael Hudson -- The Language of Looting

'Having undermined the economy at large, Wall Street’s public relations think tanks are now dismantling the language itself. Doublethink and doubletalk with regard to “nationalizing” or “socializing” the banks and other sectors is a travesty of political and economic discussion from the 17th through mid-20th centuries. Society’s basic grammar of thought, the vocabulary to discuss political and economic topics, is being turned inside-out in an effort to ward off discussion of the policy solutions posed by the classical economists and political philosophers that made Western civilization “Western.” What is being attempted is nothing less than an attempt to destroy the intellectual and moral edifice of what took Western civilization eight centuries to develop, from the 12th century Schoolmen discussing Just Price through 19th and 20th century classical economic value theory.' -- Newspeak gobbledegoop

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march 2009 by adamcrowe

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Christy's Corner of the Universe -- On Seeing: There’s Gold in Them Thar “FAILS”

d'Aquili 's and Newberg's cognitive operators: #1 Holistic: allows us to view reality as a whole or as a gestalt #2 Reductionistr: allows us to look at the whole picture and break it down into an analysis of individual parts #3 Causal: permits reality to be viewed in terms of causal sequences #4 Abstractive: permits the formation of general concepts from the perception of individual facts #5 Binary: allows us to extract meaning from the external world by ordering abstract elements into dyads. A dyad is a group of two elements that are opposed to each other in their meaning. Therefore, dyads include good and evil, right and wrong, justice and injustice, happy and sad, and heaven and hell…each opposite, in some ways, derives its meaning from its contrast with the other opposite #6 Quantitativer: permits the abstraction of quantity from the perception of various elements #7 Emotional Value: permits us to assign a particular emotional value to various elements of perception and cognition

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march 2009 by adamcrowe

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Sherry Turkle -- The Immeasurables (PDF)

"Young scientists are encouraged by a personal experience with an object they an understand and with which they can tinker. Playing with objects inn their own way leads children to build a personal scientific style. There has been no simple migration to a new digital world. Children grow up in many worlds–they are seduced by the virtual but always brought back to the physical, to the analog, and, of course, to nature. ...from the periodic table of the elements (because it offers an image of perfect and reassuring organization) to LEGO blocks (because they offer a way to create perfect and reassuring symmetries) can become points of entry to larger transformative experiences of understanding and confidence very often at the point they are shared."

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february 2009 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Best Jim Rogers Video Ever

"My passion has always been the world and what's going on in the world... how it all interacts together... this is all fascinating for me... it's a 3 dimensional puzzle and the pieces are always changing... it's such an unbelieveable challenge."

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january 2009 by adamcrowe

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Umair Haque -- How to Build a Better Economy

"Tomorrow's radical innovators will reconceive currency itself: they will design next-generation currencies that are globally accessible, ubiquitously liquid, and that are inherently, permanately hedged and insured - so instead of getting inflated, deflated, disinflated, and eviscerated, currencies can do what, well, they were meant to do: serve as a durable store of authentic value." -- Gold

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december 2008 by adamcrowe

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Umair Haque -- How To Be a 21st Century Capitalist

"... It is only by capitalizing the things we really value that the spark of value creation can be lit again. Next-generation businesses are built, instead, on human, social, natural, and cultural capital - to name just a few. Next-generation businesses are critical because next-generation assets are the key to rebalancing capitalism's toxic value equation. Ultimately, only next-generation assets can redefine how productive capitalism can be in the 21st century.... capital isn't just whatever beancounters and boardrooms decide it is. It's what we - collectively, as global citizens - decide has value, because it impacts our productivity, well-being, and quality of life. Capital is formed when people are willing to agree that something has value. And the miracle of the 21st century is that in a hyperconnected world, millions of people can debate, discuss, and decide in the blink of an eye. It's never been easier to capitalize something - so what are you waiting for?"

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december 2008 by adamcrowe

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Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions

"The acceptance of a paradigm frees the community from the need to constantly re-examine its first principles and foundational assumptions. Members of the community can concentrate on the subtlest and most esoteric of the phenomena that concern it. Because scientists work only for an audience of colleagues, an audience that shares values and beliefs, a single set of standards can be taken for granted. Unlike in other disciplines, the scientist need not select problems because they urgently need solution and without regard for the tools available to solve them. The social scientists tend to defend their choice of a research problem chiefly in terms of the social importance of achieving a solution. Which group would one then expect to solve problems at a more rapid rate?"

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october 2008 by adamcrowe

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Penguin Blog -- Clay Shirky: Tools and Transformations

"Most of the defenders of current culture don't even try to explain why it was OK that the printing press destroyed scribal production, but not OK that the internet threatens newsprint, or why a proliferation of new creators and experimentation with new forms was good in 1508 but bad in 2008."

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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Infothought -- Nick Carr: "Is Google Making Us Stupid?", and Man vs. Machine

"I've often wished there was what I call "technology-positive social criticism"... criticism of techo-hype often seems to end up couched in a certain type of fogeyism (which alienates tech types) because there's no power-center for that criticism."

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july 2008 by adamcrowe

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The Reality Club -- Larry Sanger ON "IS GOOGLE MAKING US STUPID" By Nicholas Carr

"... the problem is the weakening of our ability to think things through for ourselves. Sadly, some even glorify and encourage this disturbing trend. Remember 2005's Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking?"

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Umair Haque -- The Shrinking Advantage of Brands

"when interaction is cheap, the very economic rationale for orthodox brands actually begins to implode: information about expected costs and benefits doesn’t have to be compressed into logos, slogans, ad-spots or column-inches..." -- Features not ads.

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june 2008 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Could Methane Trigger a Climate Doomsday Within a Human Lifespan?

"None of this stuff is linear. It's non-linear." -- That's the essential problem for humanity. We're just not capable of exponential thinking without the augmentation of computing machines. Let's evolve us - fast.

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may 2008 by adamcrowe

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Maschmeyer -- Making Stuff Without Making Stuff

"The product is the transformed individual."

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may 2008 by adamcrowe

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I.D. -- Down with Innovation

"Design thinkers like to wax lyrical about the elegance of their strategic thinking as a form of design in its own right. They can keep it— in 2108, if there are museums then, no one will queue to see a strategy."

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april 2008 by adamcrowe

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n+1 -- Interview With a Hedge Fund Manager: Pt. 2: Black Boxes Enslave Brains

"... we had a [ten-sigma] loss... it should never happen... the model doesn't assume that everybody else is trading the same model as you are. So that's sort of like a meta-model factor. The model doesn't know that there are other black boxes out there."

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april 2008 by adamcrowe

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Exploratree by FutureLab

"Exploratree is a free web resource where you can download, use and make your own interactive thinking guides. Thinking guides can support independent and group research projects with frameworks for thinking, planning and enquiry."

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march 2008 by adamcrowe

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Maschmeyer - Design's Affect on Marketing: Finding the Idea, Not Giving It

"Advertisers give people the idea and ask them to remember it. Designers give people tools and activities and ask them to discover the idea. That’s a BIG difference with BIG implications." -- He's a bit good! ;P

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march 2008 by adamcrowe

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POV from India - strategic planning

"...as it stands, strategic planning is going nowhere, fast. In the long term, we are all dead. Only the paranoid survive." -- What are planners for anymore?

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february 2008 by adamcrowe

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The DIY Future - What Happens When Everyone Is A Designer?

"Design Feedback Methods: #social dynamics #network effects #game-like interactions #realtime analytics #simultaneous variations #parallel iteration"

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february 2008 by adamcrowe

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Maschmeyer - A Case for Strategy as Design

"Strategic thinking is value-driven. Because any strategy is invented rather than discovered, it is reflective of the values and world view of person developing the strategy."

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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Wikipedia - Transformation design

"In broad terms, transformation design is a human-centered, interdisciplinary process that seeks to create desirable and sustainable changes in behavior and form – of individuals, systems and organizations – often for socially progressive ends."

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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This Blog Sits at the - Brand Multiplicity

"Brands are designed to be exemplars of responsiveness. This means we may not insist on what they "really" mean, or what they "must" say. The brand must be multiple because increasingly that's what the world is." So wrong. So analogue. Multiple? Integral.

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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Paul Graham - How to Do Philosophy

"No one after reading Aristotle's Metaphysics does anything differently as a result." Hehe

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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Blackbeltjones - Glanceable Pored-Over

"the best interaction and information design is stuff that can be glanced-at or pored-over but unfortunately, most commercial interaction design falls between these two stools, in the ‘don’t make me think’ category."

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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Interconnected - the fancy legged man

"What are the consequences of living post-Peak Attention? Nobody will be able to understand anything hard unless they make sacrifices."

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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Life moves pretty fast - Don't write me a script, write me the press release

"Alex Bogusky of CP+B fame, has instructed his creative department not to write him scripts anymore, he wants press releases instead. He wants his teams to be able to answer the question, why would anyone be interested by this piece of content."

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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Maschmeyer - There are No Consumers, Only Heroes: The Truest Expression of Consumer-Centricity.

"[Transformation Design] defined as: The creation of interactive systems that intertwine products, experiences and marketing to create touch points that help people achieve the personal changes they desire and a client company offers." [Commented]

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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Whistle Through Your Comb - Innovation's Algorithm

"The innovation algorithm I laid out above and in my Hacking of Modern Marketing is my attempt to ... create an evolutionary-based human-software program that can solve complex problems." Fascinating.

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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Experience Design: Glossary

"It's not easy to define "experience design" and other, related, terms and these definitions are definitely in flux, but for now... An Evolving Glossary of Experience Design:"

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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Bertie Kingore, Ph.D. - High Achiever, Gifted Learner, CreativeThinker

"Identification of gifted students is clouded when concerned adults misinterpret high achievement as giftedness." (Which one are you?)

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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PSFK - Change The World panel at the PSFK Conference London

Video: Russell Davies (Very funny. (Not sure he meant to be. (The truth is always funny.))): “If you never said the word ‘brand’ again and said only product, company, reputation, things would get a lot clearer” Source: AdStructure(?)

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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From The Head Of Zeus Jones - Marketing adds what's missing.

"I'd argue that marketing can (and should) be proposed as a solution to fixing any of the items a) through d), but it won't happen by simply developing a message regardless of how clever that message is." Marketing redefined as "delivering value".

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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Zero influence - Designing Problems are for the Lazy

"Architecting, designing, creating, erm, even planning, needs to be used to find problems, not solve them. In return the final product will be as interesting to the audience as it was to you." ("What's wrong?") ;^)

* design thinking totaldesign criticaldesign wrong
january 2008 by adamcrowe

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Wired - Former Evangelical Minister Has a New Message: Jesus Hearts Darwin

"Evolution is real and science points to the existence of God." You know that spark that set off the Big Bang and all that stuff? Well, that's God, that is. Yeah, I know! Amazing, huh? Like, totally blows my mind, maan! So cool. God. Bang! High-five, dude

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december 2007 by adamcrowe

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iain tait - How To Do Digital Planning

"Be able to be big, and be able to be smaller too." Great advice. Pass it on.

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november 2007 by adamcrowe

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Herd - Another thing that's wrong with most strategic planning

'"how did they get to do this?" Don't bother with anything else til that's cracked.'

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november 2007 by adamcrowe

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The Register -- Adam Curtis: The TV elite has lost the plot

'We should be saying to people: "I'm going to take you out of yourself and show you something you haven't thought of, which is either awesome, or incredible, or will inspire you.'"

* AdamCurtis news politics thinking media commons democracy journalism bbc
november 2007 by adamcrowe

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Jaime Diskin - The Mind Head Eye - on Psychology.

Videos of very smart people.

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november 2007 by adamcrowe

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russell davies - chicken-sexing, expertise and 10,000 hours of something

"... what are we asking people at the start, or in the middle of their careers, to spend 10,000 hours doing? Will it be any use to them 10,000 hours later?... are we giving them expertise in something that will last?"

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november 2007 by adamcrowe

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Pasta&Vinegar - Ben Cerveny's talk at PicNic 2007: "Gaming the system"

"... play invokes the optimal experience: play invokes flow and brings you into the flow. Game design defines a vocabulary of moves that are internalized by players and this type of “literacy” is going to allow people to utilize complex applications."

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november 2007 by adamcrowe

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Lisa Seward, Mod - This Isn’t a Marriage, It’s a Monarchy (Video)

Video: What is Connection Planning? - Invention. Stop defining any further. 'Invention.'

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november 2007 by adamcrowe

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CognyWiki - The Cognitive TiddlyWiki

How to use a TiddlyWiki to organise your thinking. (If only I could organise tiddlers spatially like stickies.)

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october 2007 by adamcrowe

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The KJ-Technique - A Group Process for Establishing Priorities

Sticky fun.

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october 2007 by adamcrowe

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russell davies - applied green

"I'm starting to feel less and less comfortable about talking about this kind of stuff... it's clearly not something that's going to be resolved by anyone in advertising, marketing, design... even if they draw or think or imagine really, really hard."

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october 2007 by adamcrowe

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adliterate - Battle of Big Thinking

"Advertising is the new below-the-line"

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october 2007 by adamcrowe

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Whistle Through Your Comb - Account Planners, Meet Your New Horizon: Transformation Design.

"Transformation Design applies design thinking to large scale systems and services to identify the need and then create solutions to answer those needs." -- "Planning, meet future. Future, meet planning."

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october 2007 by adamcrowe

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RED - Transformation Design

"This paper is a call to action to all designers and non-designers wishing to work in this way to join us in developing transformation design as a discipline."

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october 2007 by adamcrowe

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Rory Sutherland - What is the single most underused word in advertising? (But)

'We love making trade-offs. Prada & Primark are multi-brand versions of the same phenomenon. It's the joy of solving value equations in our heads. It's what makes an easyJet booking rather interesting.... "it means getting up at 6am but it saves £90." '

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october 2007 by adamcrowe

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Experience Matters - "Digabilities": Essential "Abilities" for Thriving in The Digital Age

'some agencies have really struggled with the fact that unlike traditional advertising tactics digital isn’t a channel—it’s a lifestyle. I’m currently working a through a set of “Digabilities”'

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september 2007 by adamcrowe

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