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Experts Sketch

December 23, 2020 By brenda michelson

[Originally posted at brendamichelson.com in May 2017. Moved here 12.23.2020.] I think best with a marker in my hand. Always have. My workspace, and all paths to and from it, are littered with box and line diagrams, doodles, code snippets, and my (at that moment) best idea ever, on any scrap of paper, notebook or […]

Filed Under: thinking styles

PEW Research: Tech Saturation, Well-Being and (my) Remedies

May 29, 2018 By brenda michelson

[Moved from brendamichelson.com. Original publish date: May 29, 2018] Back in January, I was asked to participate in PEW Research’s survey on the impact of digital life: “Over the next decade, how will changes in digital life impact people’s overall well-being physically and mentally?” The choices: more helped than harmed, more harmed than helped, not […]

Filed Under: trends

technology knowledge premise

May 31, 2016 By brenda michelson

As technology is everywhere, it’s important for everyone to have a basic understanding of technology matters, in the same way people should understand societal, political and financial matters. To understand how the world works, how we fit in, how to instigate or participate in change, or create what’s next.  — me, 6.19.2015 [lifted from my 100Stickmen […]

Filed Under: 100stickmentech

The Curse of Knowledge

May 31, 2016 By brenda michelson

[Originally published in my 100Stickmen Tech musings notebook. Before it was 100Stickmen Tech.] The main cause of incomprehensible prose is the difficulty of imagining what it’s like for someone else not to know what you know. – Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style From The Sense of Style: The Curse of Knowledge: a difficulty in […]

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better problems and technology knowledge transfer

April 13, 2016 By brenda michelson

Often, the work of problem-solving spurs the creation, or escalation of other problems. Most are implications of solution execution; expected or not. Sometimes though, the new problem is a result of poking and prodding the original problem, long before solution work. While considering your problem, you unearth a better problem. Not better as in more […]

Filed Under: 100stickmentech, explainer Tagged With: archive_0, problem-solving

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