Interrelativity: musings about interrelatedness
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PRP, Regenokine & other biologic medicine treatments for joint & tendon problems
Science journalist Jonah Lehrer posted an interesting article last week about aging star athletes' embrace of biologic medicine, "Why Did Kobe Go to Germany? An aging star and the new procedure that could revolutionize sports medicine". The article describes Regenokine, a relatively new procedure for treating joint and tendon problems that sounds similar to the…
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The Games We Make Up About Ourselves: Interactive Narratives of Personal Transformation
I'm not a gamer, but a segment in last week's On The Media, Personal Video Games, inspired me on several levels, offering insights into the ways that game designers are utilizing their craft to enable others to more effectively relate to their personal trials and tribulations. I've long been fascinated with the stories we make…
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The Independent Project: An Inspiring Experiment in Student-Designed Learning
The Independent Project is an experimental school within a school, designed and implemented by a group of students at Monument Mountain Regional High School in Great Barrington, MA. I recently wrote about Carl Rogers' ideas regarding student-centered learning, in which a professor (who in this case was also a therapist) plays the role of facilitator,…
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Principle-centered Invention: Bret Victor on tools, skills, crafts and causes
I just watched an incredibly inspiring video of Bret Victor's CUSEC 2012 talk, Inventing on Principle. Bret's principle is creators need an immediate connection to what they are creating. He illustrates this principle during the first 35 minutes of the presentation, demonstrating some fabulously empowering "live coding" tools to enable programmers to manipulate and immediately…
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Design for Health: Notes from a Multidisciplinary CSCW 2012 Workshop
I participated in an incredibly well organized and facilitated workshop on Brainstorming Design for Health: Helping Patients Utilize Patient-Generated Data on the Web on Saturday. The participants represented a diverse range of backgrounds and interests – even for a workshop at a Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) conference, already a particularly diverse community. Our workshop…
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On the Personal Philosophy of Carl Rogers
A while back, I was delighted to discover the source of one of my favorite quotes: What is most personal is most general. The quote is from psychologist Carl Rogers' 1956 essay "'This is Me': The Development of My Professional Thinking and Personal Philosophy", which can be found in the first chapter in his 1961…
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Scott Berkun’s Personal Insights on the Experience of User Experience Professionals
Scott Berkun shared some mistakes and lessons learned from his experience as and with user experience (UX) professionals last night at a meeting of the Puget Sound Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction (SIGCHI). In a highly interactive session, he also invited the 40 or so other UX professionals who attended the meeting to share…
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Client-Centered Therapy, Student-Centered Learning and User-Centered Design
I recently finished Carl Rogers' 1961 book, On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's Guide to Psychotherapy, in which the renowned psychologist describes his approach to client-centered therapeutic relationships. Rogers makes a compelling case for extending his approach to cultivating relationships with his clients to all personal and professional relationships, including those between parents and children,…
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The Gaps, Crap and Gumption Traps in Creative Work
The poster above reflects hard-won wisdom acquired and shared by Ira Glass, host of PRI's This American Life, emphasizing the importance of perseverance in developing mastery of creative production. While Glass focuses on storytelling for radio and television, his insights and experiences about the gaps between ambitions and realizations – and the connections between quantity…