Semantic Dream Analysis
They say that when you start thinking and dreaming in that foreign language you are trying to learn you are finally starting to internalize all that book learning with which you've been stuffing your...
View ArticleTemper Temper Temperament
As I've talked about before, one of my current areas of study is personality types. In particular, of late I've been reading up on the Myers-Brigg Type Indicator and Keirsey Temperament Sorter. Isabel...
View ArticleIrrational Rationals
Continuing on with Keirsey's Four Temperaments, I'll do one post each going into the details of each temperament. I'll start with the Rationals, just because that's what I am (barely).Recall that...
View ArticleArtful Artisans
Today I'll cover the Artisan Temperament.Recall that Artisans - or SPs - tend to be concrete in their thinking and communication and utilitiarian in their use of tools. As a result, they tend to excel...
View ArticleGuardians At The Gate
Today's Temperament is the Guardian. Recall that Guardians - or SJs - tend to be concrete in their thinking and communication and cooperative in their use of tools. As a result, they tend to excel at...
View ArticleIdeaful Idealists
The last of Keirsey's Four Temperaments is the Idealist.Recall that Idealists - or NFs - tend to be abstract in their thinking and communication and cooperative in their use of tools. As a result, they...
View ArticleSystin Testing
Jerrad is cooking up Systin, which he's building on top of Systir. All terribly exciting, but wait there's more: he's going to implement something similar to my team's automation stack on top of it...
View ArticleBrain Overload
Tell me, please, when exactly it is OK to park here? This is perhaps the most complicated set of parking rules I have seen. I am glad that a) I do not have a car, and b) I do not live anywhere near...
View ArticleDriver Wanted
I was walking along, minding my own business, when a sign in a shop window reached out and grabbed my attention: Driver wanted. Must have valid WSDL.Say what? Applicants must have their own Web...
View ArticleAYE? Aye!
I spent the previous two weeks in sunny Arizona. Last week I hiked around Sedona. The week before that I was in Phoenix attending the Amplify Your Effectiveness (AYE) conference. AYE is not your...
View ArticleAYE - Sunday
Sunday was a warm-up tutorial by Don Gray and Steve Smith. This was an all-day session meant to introduce newbies like me (and returnees looking for a refresher) to the lingo, vocabulary, and concepts...
View ArticleAYE - Monday
Monday morning I attended Steve Smith's workshop on Virgina Satir's Change Model. The short form of this model (see his popular article for the full skinny) is:Status Quo. Everything is stable and...
View ArticleAYE - Tuesday
Tuesday morning I took Naomi Karten's Building Connections That Amplify Your Effectiveness. I thought it would be about networking. Nope. (I don't know why I thought that since the class description...
View ArticleAYE - Wednesday
Wednesday morning I took part in a writing workshop by Johanna Rothman and Naomi Karten, each authors of multiple books and copious articles. I picked up numerous tips, such as to ask reviewers for...
View ArticleAYE - Thursday
Thursday was SHAPE Day, a gathering of those conference attendees who are also members of Jerry Weinberg's SHAPE Forum. We started out about twenty, which number dwindled throughout the day as people...
View ArticleAYE - Friday
Friday I recuperated from the week of brain stuffing, intellectual and emotional stimulation, and long days by motoring up to Sedona, where I processed my week (and wrote this) with the assistance of...
View ArticleAYE - Amenities
The conference hotel was one of those every-room-is-a-suite places. I found having an extra room helpful even though I wasn't in my room much. The hotel food was standard hotel food which I didn't...
View ArticleI Don't Think That's Exactly What They Meant, Exactly
A hotel I was in recently had a toilet:I found that sign over the toilet rather interesting:Um, I can think of at least two other things which are going into their septic system!
View ArticleIt's A Live (Mesh)!
A year ago I joined a team building a top secret project. Today we threw off our invisibility cloak and revealed ourselves as as Live Mesh. Come on over and browse around. Subscribe to our team blog,...
View ArticleCASTing For Participants, Part 2
Some months ago I posted about CAST 2008, how it's not your typical conference, how gobs of Smart Testers will be attending, and how you probably should attend too.The program is up now, and it's a...
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