Wordle – Beautiful Word Clouds April 25, 2009
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Buddhist Wisdom March 15, 2009
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He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings,
and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an
impartial eye.
DFW: ON NOT HAVING CONTEMPT FOR YOUR READERS September 17, 2008
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If you, the writer, succumb to the idea that the audience is too stupid, then there are two pitfalls. Number one is the avant-garde pitfall, where you have the idea that you?re writing for other writers, so you don?t worry about making yourself accessible or relevant. You worry about making it structurally and technically cutting edge: involuted in the right ways, making the appropriate intertextual references, making it look smart. Not really caring about whether you?re communicating with a reader who cares something about that feeling in the stomach which is why we read. Then, the other end of it is very crass, cynical, commercial pieces of fiction that are done in a formulaic way ? essentially television on the page ? that manipulate the reader, that set out grotesquely simplified stuff in a childishly riveting way.
What?s weird is that I see these two sides fight with each other and really they both come out of the same thing, which is a contempt for the reader, an idea that literature?s current marginalization is the reader?s fault. The project that?s worth trying is to do stuff that has some of the richness and challenge and emotional and intellectual difficulty of avant-garde literary stuff, stuff that makes the reader confront things rather than ignore them, but to do that in such a way that it?s also pleasurable to read. The reader feels like someone is talking to him rather than striking a number of poses.
- David Foster Wallace
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Csikszentmihalyi: Ten paradoxical traits of the creative personality. September 17, 2008
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Csikszentmihalyi: Ten paradoxical traits of the creative personality. :
1. Creative people have a great deal of physical energy, but they?re also often quiet and at rest.
2. Creative people tend to be smart yet naive at the same time.
3. Creative people combine playfulness and discipline, or responsibility and irresponsibility.
Despite the carefree air that many creative people affect, most of them work late into the night and persist when less driven individuals would not. Vasari wrote in 1550 that when Renaissance painter Paolo Uccello was working out the laws of visual perspective, he would walk back and forth all night, muttering to himself: ?What a beautiful thing is this perspective!? while his wife called him back to bed with no success.
4. Creative people alternate between imagination and fantasy, and a rooted sense of reality.
5. Creative people trend to be both extroverted and introverted.
6. Creative people are humble and proud at the same time.
7. Creative people, to an extent, escape rigid gender role stereotyping.
This tendency toward androgyny is sometimes understood in purely sexual terms, and therefore it gets confused with homosexuality. But psychological androgyny is a much wider concept referring to a person?s ability to be at the same time aggressive and nurturant, sensitive and rigid, dominant and submissive, regardless of gender. A psychologically androgynous person in effect doubles his or her repertoire of responses.
8. Creative people are both rebellious and conservative.
9. Most creative people are very passionate about their work, yet they can be extremely objective about it as well.
10. Creative people?s openness and sensitivity often exposes them to suffering and pain, yet also to a great deal of enjoyment.
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Testing resending September 13, 2008
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This is a resend after a hiatus…..lets see if it works.
A quote from Anton in the movie “Ratatouille” February 3, 2008
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In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work to ourselves and our judgement. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic actually risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new. The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. The new needs friends.
A Thought on the Anxiety-ridden, Instant Gratification Culture-Ours February 3, 2008
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A few years ago when my oldest child was still in high school I began to notice a couple of language oddities that were new to me. As a long-term high school teacher and someone who has worked with adolescents in a variety of roles or settings, I guess it took hearing it at home to bring it home.The first of these oddities was the enjoinder to stop yelling when I was trying to take some corrective or even punitive action. I am not a yeller by nature but that does not mean I have not yelled. Indeed I have when I lost control or when extreme action was required. But I do not yell normally. So in the midst of heated though not vociferous discussions she would respond with “stop yelling.” At first my response was to yell but after a couple of times I soon realized-duh-that that was a counterproductive response. So I would say something obnoxiously wise like “What makes you think this is yelling?” which was of little help. Eventually I learned to be forthright-”I am not yelling”-and keep chugging right on with the issue. This worked best at home but sometimes I hear it at school where I have discovered the value of ignoring the claim and getting on with the business at hand.It is interesting to me in a youth “culture” where kids listen to aggressive, throbbing music at high volumes, watch violent, staccato noisy movies, play loud and violent video games find a voice of authority or (lacking authority) correction to be yelling. I wonder if there is a connection to the sub-universe of instant messages and sms. I am still trying to figure this one out.The second oddity is the use of the word “wait” when there is a miscommunication or confusion. It is not used so much in the usual sense of an enjoinder for more time as it is as a call for thinking time. “ We are all having breakfast together at Ernie’s. Wait, we are all having breakfast together?As I write about it here, it does not seem so unusual but it has felt odd when I have heard it. I will have to listen more.My preliminary theory is that our fast lives of agendas, overscheduling, overclocking, over-achieving (in many ways) has the younger heads spinning faster than they should (and probably ours as well). They are literally calling for a time-out perhaps more than they are calling for clarification. After how much clarification does a simple breakfast plan require? Wait! More on this later-further research required.Then there is always the “Tell me about it” phrase which is one of the biggest lies and/or ironies in current English usage. But, to use another, “Don’t get me going.”
Seth Godin’s “Really Bad Powerpoint” June 21, 2007
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The “I” in this is Seth Godin, not me. I borrowed this from an RSS feed a while ago.
Really Bad Powerpoint
I wrote this about four years ago, originally as an ebook. I figured the idea might spread and then the problem would go away–we’d no longer see thousands of hours wasted, every single day, by boring PowerPoint presentations filled with bullets.??Not only has it not gone away, it’s gotten a lot worse. Last week I got a template from a conference organizer. It seems they want every single presenter to not only use bullets for their presentations, but for all of us to use the same format! Shudder.??So, for posterity, and in the vain hope it might work, here we go again:
Really Bad Powerpoint
It doesn?t matter whether you?re trying to champion at a church or a school or a Fortune 100 company, you?re probably going to use PowerPoint.
Powerpoint was developed by engineers as a tool to help them communicate with the marketing department?and vice versa. It?s a remarkable tool because it allows very dense verbal communication. Yes, you could send a memo, but no one reads anymore. As our companies are getting faster and faster, we need a way to communicate ideas from one group to another. Enter Powerpoint.
Powerpoint could be the most powerful tool on your computer. But it?s not. Countless innovations fail because their champions use PowerPoint the way Microsoft wants them to, instead of the right way.
Communication is the transfer of emotion.
Communication is about getting others to adopt your point of view, to help them understand why you?re excited (or sad, or optimistic or whatever else you are.)If all you want to do is create a file of facts and figures, then cancel the meeting and send in a report.
Our brains have two sides. The right side is emotional, musical and moody. The left side is focused on dexterity, facts and hard data. When you show up to give a presentation, people want to use both parts of their brain. So they use the right side to judge the way you talk, the way you dress and your body language. Often, people come to a conclusion about your presentation by the time you?re on the second slide. After that, it?s often too late for your bullet points to do you much good.
You can wreck a communication process with lousy logic or unsupported facts, but you can?t complete it without emotion. Logic is not enough.
Champions must sell?to internal audiences and to the outside world.
If everyone in the room agreed with you, you wouldn?t need to do a presentation, would you? You could save a lot of time by printing out a one-page project report and delivering it to each person. No, the reason we do presentations is to make a point, to sell one or more ideas.
If you believe in your idea, sell it. Make your point as hard as you can and get what you came for. Your audience will thank you for it, because deep down, we all want to be sold.
Four Components To A Great Presentation?First, make yourself cue cards. Don?t put them on the screen. Put them in your hand. Now, you can use the cue cards you made to make sure you?re saying what you came to say.
Second, make slides that reinforce your words, not repeat them. Create slides that demonstrate, with emotional proof, that what you?re saying is true not just accurate.
Talking about pollution in Houston? Instead of giving me four bullet points of EPA data, why not read me the stats but show me a photo of a bunch of dead birds, some smog and even a diseased lung? This is cheating! It?s unfair! It works.
Third, create a written document. A leave-behind. Put in as many footnotes or details as you like. Then, when you start your presentation, tell the audience that you?re going to give them all the details of your presentation after it?s over, and they don?t have to write down everything you say. Remember, the presentation is to make an emotional sale. The document is the proof that helps the intellectuals in your audience accept the idea that you?ve sold them on emotionally.
IMPORTANT: Don?t hand out the written stuff at the beginning! If you do, people will read the memo while you?re talking and ignore you. Instead, your goal is to get them to sit back, trust you and take in the emotional and intellectual points of your presentation.
Fourth, create a feedback cycle. If your presentation is for a project approval, hand people a project approval form and get them to approve it, so there?s no ambiguity at all about what you?ve all agreed to.
The reason you give a presentation is to make a sale. So make it. Don?t leave without a ?yes,? or at the very least, a commitment to a date or to future deliverables.
Bullets Are For the NRA?Here are the five rules you need to remember to create amazing Powerpoint presentations:
- No more than six words on a slide. EVER. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken.
- No cheesy images. Use professional stock photo images.
- No dissolves, spins or other transitions.
- Sound effects can be used a few times per presentation, but never use the sound effects that are built in to the program. Instead, rip sounds and music from CDs and leverage the Proustian effect this can have. If people start bouncing up and down to the Grateful Dead, you?ve kept them from falling asleep, and you?ve reminded them that this isn?t a typical meeting you?re running.
- Don?t hand out print-outs of your slides. They don?t work without you there.
The home run is easy to describe: You put up a slide. It triggers an emotional reaction in the audience. They sit up and want to know what you?re going to say that fits in with that image. Then, if you do it right, every time they think of what you said, they?ll see the image (and vice versa).1
Sure, this is different from the way everyone else does it. But everyone else is busy defending the status quo (which is easy) and you?re busy championing brave new innovations, which is difficult.
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