Meet the Psychos
So you’ve heard of Freud and Jung. But there’s more psychologists out there than that pair. I’d like to introduce you to a few of them. Maybe you’ll like them too, maybe not. That’s up to the both of you. Grab an Earl Grey. First, meet three unlikely amigos: K. Anders Ericsson (expert in the psychology of expertise), Robert Sternberg (expert in the...
Read MoreBookCamp Launch FAQs
Since we started to tentatively promote the launch of BookCamp for March 2011, people have asked for more juicy details. Let me oblige. Is there a booklist? In an attempt to make the choice of books objective and contemporary, I’ve decided to select from the New York Times Business Best Sellers list. That way, BookCamp doesn’t collapse into a “let’s all study the books...
Read MoreSome Interesting Stories #2
This is another selection of juicy-but-overlooked news stories that I found interesting and that have some relevance – promise – to the services of Sensei. How good software makes us stupid is a quality article about a fascinating book called The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. The books author is Nicholas Carr, an American writer on technology, business and...
Read MoreSome Interesting Stories #1
Every now and then ‘the news’ produces an interesting story that flies dangerously close to the ground. It therefore fails to register on our radars, which are primed to catch those important-sounding-but-personally-irrelevant ones instead. I thought it might prove useful if I gathered some of these together at semi-random intervals for your perusal. Their general theme is...
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