[ meeting tells] Four years ago I read and reviewed Keith Johnstone's book Impro, in which he explains how pervasive dominance and submission behaviours are in human interactions. He describes an example of physical dominance and submission (status displays) in our encounters with strangers: Imagine that two strangers are approaching each other

Auditors at a Pentagon oversight agency were pressured by supervisors to skew their reports on major defense contractors to make them look more favorable instead of exposing wrongdoing and charges of overbilling, according to an 80-page report released yesterday by the Government Accountability Office.

[On Writing] "The Omnivore's Dilemma" is a crappy title for a great book Matt Jul 23 21 comments Latest by Luke “Fast Food Nation” was revealing. “Kitchen Confidential” was juicy. But wow, “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” is something else. The best book on food I’ve ever read. In the book, Pollan shoots a pig, hunts for mushrooms,

Not a journey I had a great meeting yesterday with Jack Martin Leith, who has done more thinking about things like innovation and change and is refreshingly cynical about much conventional thinking about both. For instance, read his latest post about change metaphors in which he puts the boot into the pervasive idea that change is a journey

New color picker in Basecamp Ryan Jul 23 26 comments Latest by JF Creating color schemes in Basecamp just got easier. Before, you had to understand complicated hex codes to customize your colors. Now anybody can choose colors with a shiny new color picker. Kudos to Sam for the extra attention to detail on the color picker

If you ever sketched out an idea on the back of fag packet or on a notepad and got just a little bit excited about the possibilities captured in that rabbled scribbling, you may get a kick out of these sketchbook doodlings posted on Flickr by the founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey. [ ZZ35A4DA89.jpg] There's a really intriguing explanation of the

[ back of the napkin by dan roam] The Back of the Napkin, by Dan Roam "Visual thinking means taking innate advantage of our ability to see, with our eyes and our mind's eye, in order to discover ideas, develop those ideas quickly and intuitively, and share those ideas with others in a way that they simply 'get'"

[ bolag1]Delivered By Hand To all employees: Beginning August 1st, you will no longer be able to send an e-mail to another employee of our organization. After some study, we have concluded that such e-mails are almost never the most efficient or effective way to obtain, provide or exchange information. In fact,

[ birdstar dot org photo tree sparrow] Photo from birdstar.org, one of the amazing shots from the Bond brothers of SW Ontario. Disparity, Poverty and Environmental Health: I'm reading Hervé Kempf's How the Rich are Destroying the Earth (review next week). His message, from France, is essentially the same as Ian Welsh's in his new article There