Children learn what they live If children live with criticism, They learn to condemn. If children live with hostility, They learn to fight. If children live with ridicule, They learn to be shy. If children live with shame, They learn to feel guilty. If children live with encouragement, They learn confidence. If children live with tolerance, They learn to be... More
Sounds like the sun is out Winter is finally on the wane. The clouds are whiter and whispier and there’s sunshine. Sitting in the office yesterday with the window slightly open, I really noticed how the noise coming in from the outside sounded different from the overcast day before. The science bit, my colleague pointed out, is that there’s less moisture... More
Sunday circuit Good run… Up Dunstans Road and turn left (South) on to Lordship Lane Opposite Harvester on South Circular go through gate and up Cox’s Walk to Dulwich Woods Up hill over disused railway tunnel at back of Sydenham Hill Wood (Nature Reserve) which comes out on Sydenham Hill Turn right along Sydenham Hill to mini-roundabout... More
Stuart Beebe: “Societies do what societies think” Stuart Beebe: "Societies do what societies think" Originally uploaded by PhilWolff. More
The best response to abuses of openness is more openness This from David Weinberger via Euan: Open, transparent environments are more secure and more stable than closed, opaque ones. While Internet services can be interrupted, the Internet as a global system is ultimately resilient to attacks, even sophisticated and widely distributed ones. The connectedness of the Internet – people talking with people – counters the... More
Where to put stuff Chatting to my friend Claire earlier about having cleared my inbox thanks to Mark Hurst’s very handy guide to Managing incoming email. We talked about how, because of the tools we’ve been given to deal with our information, we’ve been encouraged to organise our information in hierarchical structures. A few years ago I built a... More
Gestalt formula “The fundamental ‘formula’ of Gestalt theory might be expressed in this way. There are wholes, the behaviour of which is not determined by that of their individual elements, but where the part-processes are themselves determined by the intrinsic nature of the whole. It is the hope of Gestalt theory to determine the nature of such... More
Broken Great idea: This is broken “A project to make businesses more aware of their customer experience, and how to fix it.” Amongst the hundreds of posts is a picture of a “Restroom” sign in Seattle with an arrow pointing to the sky Courtesy of Mark Hurst in New York who’s behind goodexperience.com More
A designated quiet area Sign on train today… Just wondering… what constitutes using a mobile phone these days? I read the news on mine today quite happily (and quietly). If I’d read it to someone else would I have been arrested? More