Category: Making Connections
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Reflections on Connections: A Review of Connected, the Film
Watching the recent Seattle premiere of Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death and Technology, a documentary directed by Tiffany Shlain, I experienced a cascading and interconnected series of thoughts and emotions evoked by this loving tribute to the intellectual and emotional influence that her late father, Leonard Shlain, had on his family and the world…
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Dark Nights of the Soul
Maureen McHugh, a science fiction writer (who also enjoys "not science fiction" books), has written about the challenges of writing novels (and battling cancer) on her blog, No Feeling of Falling. She augmented her words – which unfold with exquisite openness and vulnerability – with a graphical depiction of the soul work involved in rising…
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Data “Mining” vs. Data “Oursing”: On the Integration and Integrity of Data, People and Organizations (Len Silverston)
[The following article was written by my good friend, Len Silverston, founder of Universal Data Models, who is an inspiring thinker, writer and speaker, but not a blogger (yet). It weaves together many threads I’ve touched on about before — radical transparency, us vs. them and the business value of openness, integrity, vulnerability and compassion…
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Data, Judgments, Feelings and Wants: A Path toward Clarity
I was talking with some colleagues this morning about recognizing and resolving misunderstandings and [other] conflicts. I mentioned a few different perspectives and processes that I've used, and sent along some references. I've blogged about two of them before: the four agreements and love and logic. I was surprised to discover I'd never blogged about…
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Joining Nokia: Connecting People … and Helping People Relate
On Monday, I embark on a new chapter in my career, as a Principal Scientist at Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto [Update: I rather prefer Principle Scientist, the title ascribed to me by Anne Galloway]. I'm excited about the opportunities to contribute to a number of strategic initiatives NRC is exploring, and to help this…
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An Unfolding Series of Pit and Peak Experiences
Dan Oestreich‘s invocation of labyrinths and U’s in a recent post on his Unfolding Leadership blog really got my juices flowing. I started posting a comment, but it got so long I decided to take it back here, include some of the most inspiring pieces (er, which is most of his post, actually), and riff…
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Locks and Keys to Object-centered Sociality in the Physical World
After packing up our proactive display equipment from the Zino Society event, we headed over to BalMar Lounge to observe another kind of technology used to enhance interactions among people attending an event: a Lock and Key Party organized by Space City Mixer. Here are the rules: The Lock and Key Encounter is a very…
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Everyone’s a Customer: The Importance of Empathy, Respect and Helpfulness
I increasingly see how a variety of roles in society might be viewed from a customer service (or customer care) perspective, and how all our interactions can be seen as manifestations of customer relationship management … and how we all might be better off if more members of society adopted this view, especially those in…
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iPods, Soma, and Turning On, Tuning In, Dropping Out
Alex Pang has written an insightful and provocative article entitled "From iPod to ourpod: Will it become a more social machine" in the Mercury News, in which he talks about the evolution of personal music technologies (including transistor radios, Sony Walkmans, and portable CD players) that have enabled us to carry our music with us. …