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OpenPodcast is a bit hit or miss these days, but it was delightful to have exit50.com post Ella in the Park so her Uke and voice could fill my ears whilst I took Willow for a walk. I've tracked down the original item so you can check it out in its original feed.
Ella sells baskets and plays the Uke at the sametime. She has been playing since she was 5 years old from Maui. The song she strums. Is Koke’e a song composed by Dennis Kamakahi in 1979 for Koke’e, the lush forested heights above Waimea and Kekaha, overlooking the valleys of the Na-Pali coast.
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What decisions can managers take to increase their probability of successfully building innovation-driven growth businesses? Many are convinced that it is impossible to predict with confidence whether an innovation will succeed, so they feel they need to place a number of bets with the hope that some will be winners. Others believe that the best way to create new growth businesses is to meticulously search for detailed quantitative data to identify opportunities and develop a rigorous plan to attack those opportunities. But many times conclusive data is only available after the game has already been won. Professor Christensen has another way. He suggests using theory. Every action a manager takes, every plan a manager makes is based on some belief of cause and effect.
Malcolm Gladwell is back on IT Conversations to discuss his new book, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. Dr. Moira Gunn asks him, "Do you really think there's a science of decision?" We have two kinds of thought, Malcolm says. The first is the rational, deliberate and conscious thought that we analyze and cherish. The other is the kind of thinking that occurs below the level of awareness, and it doesn't happen slowly and deliberately, but really quickly. We tend to dismiss the latter in our society, but in the past few years psychologists have referred to this as the product of the adaptive unconscious. It's a kind of a big computer that does all the background tasks. It's powerful and fast, but because it's not part of our consciousness, it's rather mysterious.
Join Moira for another great (audio) interview with an IT Conversations favorite.
The front end of this is a little confronting, but the bloke Hamish at the end is fantastic. Well worth a listen.
What is it like to live with a brain injury? What happens when one of your friends gets brain damage? How do you communicate with them? How can you stick by them? How do you remain friends with someone who can't speak? This program first went to air on triple j, February 4, 2005.
"Finding Humanity in the Interface: Capacity Atrophy or Augmentation?" A debate between Jaron Lanier and Will Wright, moderated by Mark Finnern from the Accelerating Change 2004 conference. (Audio from IT Conversations)
Rachel Kerr talks to some people who've seen and have suffered from cannabis psychosis. Having seen a few people flip out myself, I found this thoroughly interesting.