ETECH Notes: Surowiecki on Independent Individuals and Wise Crowds
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James Surowiecki?s The Wisdom of Crowds:
A Review
James Surowiecki?s The Wisdom of Crowds:
A Review
06/14/2004 10:04 AMUpon hearing about a book on “the wisdom of crowds”, I
expected it to answer three qeustions: Are crowds wise?,…
Etech Notes
Etech Notes
03/17/2005 03:37 AM Transcribed two sessions: Wikipedia and the Future of Social
Computing (video snip) Tags and Folksonomies Panel...
ETECH Notes: Von Neumann's Universe
ETECH Notes: Von Neumann's Universe
03/17/2005 03:56 AMCory Doctorow:
Here are my notes from George Dyson's talk from the 2005 O'Reilly
Emerging Tech conference, called "
Vo
n Neumann's Universe." Dyson's father, Freeman Dyson, was a
contemporary of Einstein, Godel, Von Neumman and all, and raised
George in their company and still tells him stories about those days.
George Dyson has been collecting historical notes and recollections of
the early days of the computer (and the bomb). His presentation, which
draws on personal reminiscences, was funny, bawdy and fascinating
Von Neumann's reports were all public and non-proprietary -- they were
freely shared with NCR, IBM, RCA, etc.
The memory was really unreliable and sloppy -- the difference between
a 1 and a 0 was very subtle. Getting all this stuff to work was akin
to getting today's unreliable Internet services to work.
The hackers' notebooks are full of bile: YAWN, CLOSING DOWN IN
DISGUST, MANIAC LOST ITS MEMORY REGAINED ITS MEMORY, GARBAGE, CODE
ERROR MACHINE NOT GUILTY, DAMN IT I CAN BE AS STUBBORN AS THIS THING,
IBM IS PUTTING A TAR-LIKE SUBSTANCE ONT HE CARDS, MOUSE CRAWLED INTO
BELT: RESULT NO MORE MOUSE. I HAVE NOW DUPLICATED BOTH RESULTS HOW
WILL I KNOW WHICH IS RIGHT?
Link
Update: Carrott reminds us that George Dyson
gave a similar talk at the Long Now Foundation in Jan 2004 -- you can
download the audio from their lecture series page.
ETECH Notes: Web Services as a Strategy
for Startups
ETECH Notes: Web Services as a Strategy
for Startups
03/17/2005 03:56 AMCory Doctorow:
Flickr's Stewart Butterfield just delivered a fantastic talk called
We
b Services as a Strategy for Startups: Opening Up and Letting Go,
at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. It was a guided tour
of the lessons learned from the exhaustive and powerful Flickr API,
which has attracted tons of innovative development. Here are my notes
from the talk:
We've gotten a lot out of the open API:
* Trust: do you trust your data to someone else's service? Why
put my photos there when I can keep them on my own server and
know they're safe? API is a safeguard against us being bad
* We've added features we wouldn't have done on our own
* There's cred with the alpha geeks: very influential and good at
getting the word out; when it's Xmas and someone gets a new
digital camera, they're the ones getting asked what do do with
their photos
* Discipline: Makes us plan ahead further than we could have
* Unleashing creativity: Gives people a greater sense of
ownership when they can contribute, they buy into the process
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ETECH Notes: Life Hacks Live!
ETECH Notes: Life Hacks Live!
03/19/2005 03:03 AMCory Doctorow:
Here are my notes from Danny O'Brien and Merlin Mann's
Li
fe Hacks Live, at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in
San Diego. Danny's been doing variations on his Life Hacks talk since
the last Emerging Tech conference -- it's basically an effort to
research the productivity patterns of very prolific geeks and convert
them to wisdom that anyone can follow. Merlin has been adapting the
fantastic productivity cookbook
Getting Things Done into a series of tools for geeks, on an
equally fantastic blog called
43
Folders. They're now working on a book version of their stuff for
O'Reilly called
Life Productivity Hacks, and today's session
was a preview of it -- it was uproariously funny and incredibly
inspiring.
Here's a recap of last year, in bumper stickers:
HACKERS HEART PLAIN TEXT
Geeks store what they do in text and spurn big apps, using plain text
editors. Simplicity and speed, ease of search and extraction, cut and
paste. All you need in a filing system.
MY OTHER APP IS IN ~/BIN
If it wasn't plaintext, there's one app that they loved, like mail,
Excel, PowerPoint, etc. The rest was little glue scripts in ~/bin,
secret scripts they are embarrassed about and don't share with others,
though it turns out that they're all really similar.
SUPER PROLIFIC GEEKS DO IT IN PUBLIC WITH COMPLETE STRANGERS AND LIKE
IT. OH YES.
(don't put this on your car)
Geeks get their credibility and prolificness out of sharing everything
-- put it in public and the public organizes it for you. Put it on a
Wiki and others will fix it.
LinkETECH Notes: Bezos on vertical search
and A9
ETECH Notes: Bezos on vertical search
and A9
03/17/2005 03:56 AMCory Doctorow:
Here are my notes from Jeff Bezos's talk from the 2005 O'Reilly
Emerging Tech conference, called "
Ve
rtical Search and A9." A9 has added a ton of tools to let people
design their own domain-expert searches.
There are lots of things you can do if you're a domain expert in
vertical search. If you're a medical pro and you search on Vioxx,
you'll get different results from Web search and PubMed.
The data-sets are different and the relevance ranking and the
transformations on the query are all different too.
PubMed takes the user-query and does sophisticated transformations,
e.g. "Heart attack" into many medical terms.
The Web-search on Vioxx is mostly about class-action lawsuits, while
the vertical is about medical info.
A9.com has a visual metaphor for vertical search -- columns for web
results, image results, and reference results, your bookmarks, etc...
LinkETECH Notes: Danny Hillis and Applied
Minds
ETECH Notes: Danny Hillis and Applied
Minds
03/17/2005 03:56 AMCory Doctorow:
Here are my notes from Danny Hillis's talk from the 2005 O'Reilly
Emerging Tech conference, called "
Re
mixing Technology at Applied Minds." Applied Minds is a company
that Hillis founded because he wasn't having enough fun as a Disney
Imagineer and wanted to start a company where all he'd have to build
is "1.0" designs that he could license out to GM and the like to
develop the 2.0 of.
We have musicians, artists and even an astronaut around, which lets us
exploit a real mix of talents and viewpoints.
Shows an amazing desert-exploration vehicle with a high-masted
Infrared camera, the ability to inflated/deflate tires from inside,
every legal radio band, etc. -- a project for fun, called the
Multimog.
Remixing toy: You can connect a car, a robot and a connector. They all
work together. We've licensed this to a toy vendor, but the problem is
that we have no way to know if they'll ever bring it to market.
Here's a cancer-simulator visualization that attempts to discover the
chemical signature of which cancer drug works for which patient --
lots of cancer drugs are only effective for five percent of patents,
which makes them useless.
LinkETECH Notes: Feral Robotics and Some
Other Quacking, Shaking, Bubbling Robots
ETECH Notes: Feral Robotics and Some
Other Quacking, Shaking, Bubbling Robots
03/17/2005 03:55 AMCory Doctorow:
Here are my notes from Natalie Jeremijenko's
So
cial Robotics, Scmocial Robotics: Feral Robotics and Some Other
Quacking, Shaking, Bubbling (what would the opposite of feral be?)
Robots, at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San
Diego.
Natalie is a genuine cyberpunk heroine, whose hacks include hacking
robot toy dogs into feral volatile organic compound sensors; setting
up voicemail boxes you can call when you want to record your
interactions with Homeland Security coppers, and surreptitiously
filming jumpers off the Golden Gate bridge.
Feral Robotic Dogs: It's a website. Everything reduces to a website. A
couple years old, dates back to the launch of the Sony Aibo. One in a
series of interactive toys that express behaviors programmed in our
labs -- they're fun and interesting and sci-fi-ey. But what do you
learn from them? You learn construction from construction toys,
monopolization from Monopoly. What do you learn from interactive toys?
Interaction?
These toy dogs out of the box beg for bones or sing the national
anthem.
I became interested in this when someone said to me that a robot dog
would make a good pet for me -- what does that say about my capacity
to care for living things? What might we learn from these things? What
do we need to learn from these things.
Here's the website (xdesign.ucsd.edu/feralrobots) with instructions
for upgrading the raison d'être of your robot dogs.
Warning label: OUT THERE IN HAPPY FAMILY HOMES IN THE OFFICE OF
CORPORATE EXECS, IN TOY STORES THROUGHOUT THE GLOBE IS AN ARMY OF
ROBOTIC DOGS. THESE REMI-AUTONOMOUS ROBOT CREATURES, THOUGH CURRENTLY
PROGRAMMED TO PERFORM INANE OR ENTERTAINING TASKS, ARE ACTUALLY FULLY
MOTILE AND AWAITING FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS.
LinkETECH Notes: Folksonomy, or How I
Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the
Mess
ETECH Notes: Folksonomy, or How I
Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the
Mess
03/17/2005 03:56 AMCory Doctorow:
Here are my notes from "
Fo
lksonomy, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mess," a
conversation between Clay Shirky, Stewart "Flickr" Butterfield, Joshua
"Delicious" Schachter and Jimmy "Wikipedia" Wales at the O'Reilly
Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego. Folksonomy is the process
of letting users generate and apply their own tags to shared items
(such as blog-posts, encyclopedia entries, photos, links, lists or
interests, or what have you) and then discovering which tegs users
share with one another. Unlike previous ventures into this field, the
tags aren't "controlled" -- any user can invent one and any user can
apply them to anything, and yet it all
works.
Jimmy: We launched ours last summer after knowing we needed it for a
long time. For the first two weeks in English Wikipedia, it was a
madhouse with all kinds of categorization. The Germans were more
reserved but after a few weeks it caught on there. Eventually, because
people could adjust categories, it all settled down. We did it because
that's the Wikipedia way -- we never considered doing it any other
way.
Stewart: It's not really categorization on Flickr -- it's about
letting users remember. If I add the "Norma" tag to pix of my mom,
whose name is Norma, I don't think it goes into the Norma category.
The unfortunate thing about the term "folksonomy" is that it implies
that it's a replacement for categorization. People categorize things
by noting what they do or don't have: mammals have hair and live
babies; does it have property a? then it's a whatever.
Joshua: I was collecting 20,000 links in a text-file, and somewhere
along the way I started adding a hash mark and some text, so I could
e.g. grep out all the WiFi links and send them to a friend. Later I
built a Web version so I could send an URL to a friend, but it was
standalone. Eventually I made it massively multiplayer. The
interesting group behavior is the tagging that isn't categorization,
e.g., "To read" -- not a category, though it has a big group and a lot
of social and user context. People make tags for groups working
together, workflow in RSS -- that's what's most surprising.
Link
Gender-wise or otherwise, church decides
on PC-wise
Gender-wise or otherwise, church decides
on PC-wise
02/10/2004 10:46 PMThe Star Feb 11 2004 3:18AM GMT
Three Wise Men May Have Been Women - and
Not Wise (Reuters)
Three Wise Men May Have Been Women - and
Not Wise (Reuters)
02/10/2004 09:13 AMReuters - The Three Wise Men who followed the star
to Bethlehem bearing gifts for the baby Jesus may not have been
all that wise -- or even men.
James Surowiecki
James Surowiecki
05/31/2004 12:35 PMThis gentleman writes regularly in
The New Yorker on issues of
business and economics, and is one of the reasons I regularly buy that
magazine. Today he’s got a
fascina
ting essay in
Wired on collective corporate wisdom.
Seems to me that there’s a good case to be made that the companies
who figure out how to put this to work are the ones that are going to
win.
Groups, Individuals or both?
Groups, Individuals or both?
07/28/2004 02:54 PMJon Udell had an
interesting post on Shibboleth, which is an authentication system
for the Internet2 (among other applications....)
I met the Shibboleth folks at last year's DigitalID world. They're
doing real stuff.
Anyway Jon brings up the notion of group identification, as opposed
to individual. My feeling - is that we want - both!
Here's
Jon's post....
In last week's column, I suggested that individuals and
corporations should be the authoritative sources of basic
information about
themselves. That way, if an application needs my name, address, and
phone
number, I can refer it to a source that I control and guarantee to
be correct.
But how many applications really need my name, address, and phone
number?
Capturing the identity of individuals, along with personal
information about
them, has become a habit. In a climate of increasing concern about
privacy,
it's a bad habit we must learn to resist. [Full story at
InfoWorld.com]
As I mention in this week's column, the notion of selective
disclosure is a
core value of
href="http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/">Shibboleth, an Internet2
project
that's gaining some real traction in the higher-ed world.
What's up with the name 'Shibboleth'? Here's the scoop:
A shibboleth is a kind
of
linguistic password: A way of speaking (a pronunciation, or the use
of a
particular expression) that identifies one as a member of an 'in'
group. The
purpose of a shibboleth is exclusionary as much as inclusionary: A
person
whose way of speaking violates a shibboleth is identified as an
outsider and
thereby excluded by the group. (This phenomenon is part of the
"Judge a book
by its cover" tendency apparently embedded in human cognition, and
the use of
language to distinguish social groups).
The story behind the
word is
recorded in the biblical Book of Judges. The word shibboleth in
ancient Hebrew
dialects meant 'ear of grain' (or, some say, 'stream'). Some groups
pronounced
it with a sh sound, but speakers of related dialects pronounced it
with an s.
[Suzanne
Kemmer]
The federated identity system called
Shibboleth deals
with group membership, rather than individual identity. It's
interesting to
think about use cases, outside higher ed, that don't require the
identification
of individuals. Consider website registration. The
New York Times, or
InfoWorld, or other
media
sites that want to qualify readers to their advertisers, don't really
need to
know me as an individual. They just need to aggregate readers into
groups. From
the Times' perspective, I'm a member of the group of American male
writers who
work in Media/Publishing/Broadcasting and who read the Times regularly
but do
not subscribe. From InfoWorld's perspective, I'm a member of the group
of
consultants (Technical) working in the area of Tech: Publishing who
strategize
about (but do not directly purchase) IT assets.
What if it were possible -- and convenient -- to affiliate with
these groups
without giving up personally identifying information? In reaction to
registration regimes that are too granular, the bugmenot.c
om
hack abolishes granularity. But maybe there's a middle ground.
[Jon
Udell]
DVD publication taking off for
individuals
DVD publication taking off for
individuals
05/24/2004 12:59 PM
The New York Times reports on the rapid growth in DVD
publication, especially for small groups and individuals.
Independent filmmakers, specialty magazine publishers, artists,
educators - all those with a video to sell, no matter how narrow the
niche - are turning out DVD's and distributing them through the mail.
It's a trend that began in the era of videotape but has accelerated
with DVD's because they are inexpensive to duplicate and ship.
Next-generation tech: Individuals first
Next-generation tech: Individuals first
11/10/2003 11:11 PMSiliconValley.com Nov 10 2003 3:36PM ET
RIAA Grinds Down Individuals in the
Courtroom
RIAA Grinds Down Individuals in the
Courtroom
08/21/2004 11:00 AMSlashdot Aug 21 2004 3:24PM GMT
Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every
10,000 individuals may be neurotypical.
Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every
10,000 individuals may be neurotypical.
09/14/2004 01:54 AM
neurodiversity
An amazingly wide and varied site which began as a
collection of articles about Autism but
which has expanded to survey such varied topics as left-handedne
ss, gender and
sexual orientation, hysteria, and a
fascinating collection of articles on "Neurotypical
Issues." Hours and hours of material from a wide variety of
viewpoints. Study: Audits of Individuals Up Last
Year (AP)
Study: Audits of Individuals Up Last
Year (AP)
04/11/2004 06:25 PMAP - The Internal Revenue Service audited fewer corporations, small
businesses and partnerships last year but more individual taxpayers,
according to a study of government data.
Ancient Wisdom: Leave the Decisions Up
to Individuals
Ancient Wisdom: Leave the Decisions Up
to Individuals
04/08/2005 03:34 PM
 The Idea: Open Space offers
a process for decision making that is the exact opposite of that used
in most Western organizations: A collective understanding emerges from conversations,
and individuals are then
entrusted to decide what should be done.
One of the things that really
struck me in my recent conversati
on
with Chris Corrigan about Open Space meeting protocols, Appreciative
Inquiry ("discover pattern, dream/envision, design, do") and the Four
Practices ("opening, inviting, holding/making room,
acting/practicing")
was how it turns the hierarchical business model of doing things on
its
head. In business, the decisions on what to do are usually made by a
few 'experts' (executives, specialists etc.) and then those decisions
are carried out (if they know what's good for them) by everyone else.
Here's how Chris & Michael explain the process of acting using Open Space: "It is the
personal and individual (I, me, my) pursuit of the good that
we invite,
in the space that we provide." The
knowledge and understanding that prompts the decisions on what to do
come from collective
activity, and the decision about precisely what to then do is entrusted to each individual. The
individuals who are (if the process has gone well) inspired to action
have the context
to know best what exactly should be done in their own area, community,
job, or situation. In business, the 'experts' cannot hope to have the
Wisdom of Crowds (all of the individual knowledge and context of
everyone affected), and hence are prone to make wrong, even
dysfunctional decisions. The frustrated, untrusted employees are
forced
to implement these decisions, or quit, or, as more often happens, find
'workarounds' that allow them to implement what they know really needs to be done without too
obviously ignoring the instructions from the top.
The result in business (as I keep saying) is that things are the way
they are for a reason -- and usually the reason is that the
knowledgeable employees have brilliantly found a way to do what needs
to be done while still appearing
to be conforming to the relatively ignorant and often
counterproductive
instructions from the boss. It doesn't take new employees long to
catch
on to this incongruity between what actually happens on the front line
and what the manuals, directives, plans and organization charts would
have you believe are happening. In fact the whole new field of
'cultural anthropology' in business entails spending enough time to
study this incongruity, and gently and sheepishly report back to the
executives, experts, specialists and consultants the perfectly good
reasons why their advice and instructions are being ignored.
Only a few organizations (Semco
and WL
Gore
are reputedly among them) actually use the Open Space approach to
run their operations. This is, after all, scary stuff for
executives who get paid to make good, tough decisions. Yet most tribal
communities (other than those that have been coerced into using
Western
governmental structures) have used the Open Space approach
successfully
for tens of thousands of years. In Open Space cultures nobody tells you what to
do.
Why do our business, social and political organizations ignore this
obvious wisdom? Is it arrogance on the part of the executives? Is it a
means for 'experts' to justify their large salaries? Are line staff
complicit so they can always say they were just following orders when
things go wrong? How and why did the mistrust and disempowerment of
the
front lines arise? Is it because modern organizations, public and
private, are just so big they have become unmanageable, and
command-and-control is hence a charade to avoid acknowledging the
endemic reality of inefficiency, disconnectedness, distrust and chaos
in big organizations, to their customers and other stakeholders?
Diagram above: The 'classic'
decision-making process, adapted from NASA.
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E-Mail Security Services for Small
Business and Individuals
E-Mail Security Services for Small
Business and Individuals
01/07/2004 01:53 PMA number of vendors offer managed e-mail services for enterprise.
However, now individuals and small businesses owners can find services
for spam and virus protection, and at a very reasonable cost.
A new style of trading for both business
and individuals on the internet has
arrived
A new style of trading for both business
and individuals on the internet has
arrived
08/28/2004 02:37 AMsellitbuyitswapit.com brings no cost listing for business's on the
internet, a very small percentage fee is payable when you sell an
item.For individuals low cost listing fees coupled with no final value
fees means more of the sale stays with the lister. [PRWEB Aug 28,
2004]
N. Korea Acknowledges Intellectual
Property Rights of Individuals
N. Korea Acknowledges Intellectual
Property Rights of Individuals
01/22/2004 04:56 AMYonhap News Jan 22 2004 8:05AM GMT
Caught by the Act: Digital Copyright Law
Ensnaring Businesses, Individuals Over
Fair Use
Caught by the Act: Digital Copyright Law
Ensnaring Businesses, Individuals Over
Fair Use
11/12/2003 01:08 PMWashington Post Nov 12 2003 7:24AM ET
Music Industry to Target Individuals
Following File-Sharing Ruling?
Music Industry to Target Individuals
Following File-Sharing Ruling?
08/20/2004 09:56 PMA federal appeals court rules that makers of two leading file-sharing
programs are not legally liable for the copyrighted works their users
swap online. The decision is likely to force the industry to take the
more costly and less popular route of going directly after
file-swappers.
Japan prince absolves individuals over
wife's woes (Reuters)
Japan prince absolves individuals over
wife's woes (Reuters)
06/08/2004 07:29 AMReuters - Japan's crown prince says he had not meant to single out any
specific culprits
when he complained -- in words that rocked the royal court and public
-- of pressures on his wife, but
he added that steps were needed to make her life more bearable.
The Creativity Of Crowds?
The Creativity Of Crowds?
07/21/2004 12:59 PMWith all the talk about
smart
mobs and
the wisdom
of crowds, everyone seems to be looking at how we're becoming a
collaboration nation -- working together to get stuff done. However,
when it comes to more creative works of art,
it appears the mob mentality
doesn't work so well. In some, more highly structured areas it
does seem to work okay. Wikipedia is used as an example, where a
large collaborative group has done very creative work. However, more
free form artistic works seem to fizzle as the lack of direction
basically leads to very little worth talking about. With Wikipedia,
the structure is clear and it's easy to see how someone can add in
their own part. Other collaborative art projects get bogged down
however, as no one knows where to begin -- or where everyone disagrees
on where to begin.
Carnival crowds likely to top 1m
Carnival crowds likely to top 1m
08/30/2004 06:38 AMPolice predict a million people will attend the Notting Hill Carnival
by the end of the Bank Holiday weekend.
Hitler got big crowds, too
Hitler got big crowds, too
04/26/2004 11:34 AMWISE FTP v3.0.2.2
WISE FTP v3.0.2.2
05/13/2004 11:12 AMWISE FTP is a powerful and user-friendly FTP client. It supports drag
& drop of files, simultaneous transmissions of files and directories
and resumption of interrupted transfers, to name just a few of its
main functions. [Shareware $46.91 30 Days 5 MB]
Crowds run with Pamplona bulls
Crowds run with Pamplona bulls
07/07/2004 07:41 AMEight people are injured, none seriously, on the first day of the
popular bull run in the Spanish city.
Wise Cory
Wise Cory
12/23/2003 06:50 PM I'm fond of these words of wisdom from Cory: The last twenty years
were about technology. The next twenty years are about policy... I
have a special request to the toolmakers of 2004: stop making tools
that magnify and multilply awkward social situations An important note
for 2004: stop trying to build an Internet without malefactors,
parasites, freeriders and inefficiency. See you next year, Cory. Or,
more accurately: If you're Cory and you're reading this, then it is
net year....
Wise Solutions
Wise Solutions
06/22/2004 01:03 AM"Wise stewardship?"
"Wise stewardship?"
06/16/2004 01:31 PMSome of the Wise Men May Have Been Women
(AP)
Some of the Wise Men May Have Been Women
(AP)
02/10/2004 12:03 PMAP - The Wise Men, those famous early visitors to the infant Jesus,
were not necessarily either, the Church of England has decided.
Cracking wise
Cracking wise
11/19/2003 02:09 PMA couple
kids hacked into a Lowes store database and grabbed a bunch of
credit card numbers. They did it wirelessly from the parking lot no
less and frankly I'm surprised it was even possible. When I ordered a
custom item a couple weeks ago, I noticed that Lowes' internal systems
are all tied into open source programs. Custom ordering terminals are
running what looked like Redhat, and my order was entered into a
mozilla browser (with the URL address bar hidden), running a web app
with basic web forms for all data entry.
I suspect these dorks in the parking lot sniffed the traffic and
got in. Hopefully Lowes starts using ssh tunnels and https for all
communication on the wire, and puts a more robust wireless security
system in place. It'd be nice if they released their software
somewhere or left it open to public review, so the open source
community could find these gaping holes and fix them before they
become a problem.
- Time to wise up
- Time to wise up
04/20/2004 07:27 PMComputer Times Asia Apr 20 2004 11:14PM GMT
Wise InstallTailor
Wise InstallTailor
12/30/2004 12:57 AMUS Army wants "wise" G.I.s
US Army wants "wise" G.I.s
06/02/2004 12:10 PMSpotted on Noah Schachtman's DefenseTech blog today:
Soldiers of today need to new "skill sets. to function effectively
under high-stress and other emotionally-laden circumstances," the Army
says.
"These conditions are sometimes associated with interpersonal
transactions but may also emerge as reactions to fast-paced,
high-demand events and situations." The best way to determine whether
a grunt has these skill sets or not: gauge his "emotional
intelligence," or EI. It's made up of four abilities, according to the
Army: "the perception, management, expression, and utilization of
emotion."
The military is asking companies for ideas on how to put together a
new, "comprehensive personnel management and training system" that
would assess and build "an individual's ability to recognize, express,
react and manage emotions associated with these interpersonal events
and emotionally-laden circumstances."
Similarly, the Army would like to find leaders "who possess the wisdom
to extend their expertise and values beyond service interests." But
right now, it doesn't have an efficient way to find out who's wise and
who's not.
LinkWise Counsel
Wise Counsel
02/01/2005 09:27 PMWhen the time came for attorney Jody Stahancyk to computerize her
small firm, she took her own wise counsel — and went with Apple
technology. Today her firm has expanded substantially, from two
lawyers to 20, from one office to five. [Feb 01, 2005]
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