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And this is why Edward de Bono makes for interesting reading. I wont bother detailing his bio but point you to his website. de Bono spent the early part of his life working on the structure and self organisation of the brain.

He has spent considerable more time trying to get people to think better. For example in a thinking exercise he tries to explain why people (not just smart ones) argue incorrect results to problems through a simple example:

• '... Most people cannot distinguish between: 6+2 = 8 8 = 6+2 The difference can be rather important. The addition of 6 and 2 cannot produce any answer other than 8. But 8 can be made up of combinations other than 6 and 2 (5+3, 4+4, 7+1). Why is this important? Because people start to believe that if you have a 'right' answer there is no need to think further because you can never be more than right. Having the right answer means you do not have to listen to other answers because they can never be 'more than right'. The result is a severe limitation on thinking. The point will be followed up in my next message. [Weekly Message (Week 20), Edward de Bono 8th May 2004] ...'

Good ideas flow from good thinking. Good thinking is (mostly) about changing perception not logic or argument.

And this is why Edward de Bono makes for interesting reading. I wont bother detailing his bio but point you to his website. de Bono spent the early part of his life working on the structure and self organisation of the brain.

He has spent considerable more time trying to get people to think better. For example in a thinking exercise he tries to explain why people (not just smart ones) argue incorrect results to problems through a simple example:

• '... Most people cannot distinguish between: 6+2 = 8 8 = 6+2 The difference can be rather important. The addition of 6 and 2 cannot produce any answer other than 8. But 8 can be made up of combinations other than 6 and 2 (5+3, 4+4, 7+1). Why is this important? Because people start to believe that if you have a 'right' answer there is no need to think further because you can never be more than right. Having the right answer means you do not have to listen to other answers because they can never be 'more than right'. The result is a severe limitation on thinking. The point will be followed up in my next message. [Weekly Message (Week 20), Edward de Bono 8th May 2004] ...'

Good ideas flow from good thinking. Good thinking is (mostly) about changing perception not logic or argument.

And this is why Edward de Bono makes for interesting reading. I wont bother detailing his bio but point you to his website. de Bono spent the early part of his life working on the structure and self organisation of the brain.

He has spent considerable more time trying to get people to think better. For example in a thinking exercise he tries to explain why people (not just smart ones) argue incorrect results to problems through a simple example:

• '... Most people cannot distinguish between: 6+2 = 8 8 = 6+2 The difference can be rather important. The addition of 6 and 2 cannot produce any answer other than 8. But 8 can be made up of combinations other than 6 and 2 (5+3, 4+4, 7+1). Why is this important? Because people start to believe that if you have a 'right' answer there is no need to think further because you can never be more than right. Having the right answer means you do not have to listen to other answers because they can never be 'more than right'. The result is a severe limitation on thinking. The point will be followed up in my next message. [Weekly Message (Week 20), Edward de Bono 8th May 2004] ...'

Good ideas flow from good thinking. Good thinking is (mostly) about changing perception not logic or argument.

And this is why Edward de Bono makes for interesting reading. I wont bother detailing his bio but point you to his website. de Bono spent the early part of his life working on the structure and self organisation of the brain.

He has spent considerable more time trying to get people to think better. For example in a thinking exercise he tries to explain why people (not just smart ones) argue incorrect results to problems through a simple example:

• '... Most people cannot distinguish between: 6+2 = 8 8 = 6+2 The difference can be rather important. The addition of 6 and 2 cannot produce any answer other than 8. But 8 can be made up of combinations other than 6 and 2 (5+3, 4+4, 7+1). Why is this important? Because people start to believe that if you have a 'right' answer there is no need to think further because you can never be more than right. Having the right answer means you do not have to listen to other answers because they can never be 'more than right'. The result is a severe limitation on thinking. The point will be followed up in my next message. [Weekly Message (Week 20), Edward de Bono 8th May 2004] ...'

Good ideas flow from good thinking. Good thinking is (mostly) about changing perception not logic or argument.

I think a better way to put it is, "I want my languages COSHER and prefer Computer Science over Computer Secrecy", [Steve Mann, wearcam.org]. It doesn't necessarily mean someone is smarter but it might mean they think better.

aww jeez they have a website for jobs! tried it but its all *greek* in firefox.

We live in interesting times where the economies can undercut in price and oversupply in key knowledge requirements. Edward deBono was on the National Press club (televised journalist club speech with variety of different quests) talking about this topic. Here's the link to read (Ideas unleash value' - Edward de Bono tells East ~ 13/07/2004) . In summary he reckons that when you have lowered all your costs, raised your quality levels as far as you can sustained creativity will be the differentiator.

Here's another link that pretty much summarises what the talk was about.

"If you've got China on your doorstep, where the average production wage is $100 a month and, I'm told, it can be as high as $3,000 a month here, that's a hell of a difference," he said. "What will happen -- as is already happening -- is that Japanese companies are opening factories in China, initially to serve the Chinese market.

"But once they're there, they are going to be serving the world market. And that's going to have a drastic impact as it means employment here certainly won't be expanding," he said. As a result, Japan has two ways to compete with China's cheap production costs: It can automate, although this isn't much of a solution as it does not create employment; or it can put a lot of emphasis on creativity.

Simply relying on the quality of products from Japan won't work, he pointed out, as "China is coming on in terms of quality and technology, so it's creativity that is going to be the key."

This is certainly a (but not the only) path I'm following.

aww jeez they have a website for jobs! tried it but its all *greek* in firefox.

We live in interesting times where the economies can undercut in price and oversupply in key knowledge requirements. Edward deBono was on the National Press club (televised journalist club speech with variety of different quests) talking about this topic. Here's the link to read (Ideas unleash value' - Edward de Bono tells East ~ 13/07/2004) . In summary he reckons that when you have lowered all your costs, raised your quality levels as far as you can sustained creativity will be the differentiator.

Here's another link that pretty much summarises what the talk was about.

"If you've got China on your doorstep, where the average production wage is $100 a month and, I'm told, it can be as high as $3,000 a month here, that's a hell of a difference," he said. "What will happen -- as is already happening -- is that Japanese companies are opening factories in China, initially to serve the Chinese market.

"But once they're there, they are going to be serving the world market. And that's going to have a drastic impact as it means employment here certainly won't be expanding," he said. As a result, Japan has two ways to compete with China's cheap production costs: It can automate, although this isn't much of a solution as it does not create employment; or it can put a lot of emphasis on creativity.

Simply relying on the quality of products from Japan won't work, he pointed out, as "China is coming on in terms of quality and technology, so it's creativity that is going to be the key."

This is certainly a (but not the only) path I'm following.

aww jeez they have a website for jobs! tried it but its all *greek* in firefox.

We live in interesting times where the economies can undercut in price and oversupply in key knowledge requirements. Edward deBono was on the National Press club (televised journalist club speech with variety of different quests) talking about this topic. Here's the link to read (Ideas unleash value' - Edward de Bono tells East ~ 13/07/2004) . In summary he reckons that when you have lowered all your costs, raised your quality levels as far as you can sustained creativity will be the differentiator.

Here's another link that pretty much summarises what the talk was about.

"If you've got China on your doorstep, where the average production wage is $100 a month and, I'm told, it can be as high as $3,000 a month here, that's a hell of a difference," he said. "What will happen -- as is already happening -- is that Japanese companies are opening factories in China, initially to serve the Chinese market.

"But once they're there, they are going to be serving the world market. And that's going to have a drastic impact as it means employment here certainly won't be expanding," he said. As a result, Japan has two ways to compete with China's cheap production costs: It can automate, although this isn't much of a solution as it does not create employment; or it can put a lot of emphasis on creativity.

Simply relying on the quality of products from Japan won't work, he pointed out, as "China is coming on in terms of quality and technology, so it's creativity that is going to be the key."

This is certainly a (but not the only) path I'm following.

aww jeez they have a website for jobs! tried it but its all *greek* in firefox.

We live in interesting times where the economies can undercut in price and oversupply in key knowledge requirements. Edward deBono was on the National Press club (televised journalist club speech with variety of different quests) talking about this topic. Here's the link to read (Ideas unleash value' - Edward de Bono tells East ~ 13/07/2004) . In summary he reckons that when you have lowered all your costs, raised your quality levels as far as you can sustained creativity will be the differentiator.

Here's another link that pretty much summarises what the talk was about.

"If you've got China on your doorstep, where the average production wage is $100 a month and, I'm told, it can be as high as $3,000 a month here, that's a hell of a difference," he said. "What will happen -- as is already happening -- is that Japanese companies are opening factories in China, initially to serve the Chinese market.

"But once they're there, they are going to be serving the world market. And that's going to have a drastic impact as it means employment here certainly won't be expanding," he said. As a result, Japan has two ways to compete with China's cheap production costs: It can automate, although this isn't much of a solution as it does not create employment; or it can put a lot of emphasis on creativity.

Simply relying on the quality of products from Japan won't work, he pointed out, as "China is coming on in terms of quality and technology, so it's creativity that is going to be the key."

This is certainly a (but not the only) path I'm following.

if you really want to imporve your thinking/decision making skills then do yourself a favour and buy/go to the library and read some Edward deBono. Or try the online daily passage

There's no fancy gimics just thinking skills backed up by phd level psychology, physiology and medicine and thirty years of practice.

if you really want to imporve your thinking/decision making skills then do yourself a favour and buy/go to the library and read some Edward deBono. Or try the online daily passage

There's no fancy gimics just thinking skills backed up by phd level psychology, physiology and medicine and thirty years of practice.

if you really want to imporve your thinking/decision making skills then do yourself a favour and buy/go to the library and read some Edward deBono. Or try the online daily passage

There's no fancy gimics just thinking skills backed up by phd level psychology, physiology and medicine and thirty years of practice.

Yes, it absolutely is in a company's best economic interest if I just grab a handy soda and go back to work without losing my train of thought, rather than walk or drive to get one.

Did you happen to read Edward De Bono's books about lateral thinking?

Creativity is very much stimulated by periodic changes in perspective. I remember one of De Bono's examples, about being stuck with some hard-to-solve problem, and finding the solution during a refreshing visit to a local flea market.

Flea markets are unexpectedly varied: this is how they help you get fresh insights. Opting for a short trip to the outside world, maybe together with an effort to visit some unknown feeding coordinates, surely helps in improving the quality of the output of any creative professional.

And programmers are creative professionals, even the people at Microsoft...!

At mediadishonesty.com there is a media dishonesty rating system. See the link standard dishonesty rating system. As a rating system it is insightful and tough. The author claims a score of 30 bad points is reasonable.

In general i think most press dishonesty is in pursuit of the aim to be more interesting. That's the main selling value. Political agendas are much less important to press than most people think.

Useful moderation system for Slashdot? Very valuable, yes. Question is how. Too heavy for full use.