Invitation to Participate 5 Feb 2011 | 04:23 am

I am starting into my dissertation research, which will explore the different ways that people who are involved in the design, development and deployment of API-based software think and talk about the...

Short vs. Long-Term Morality in Democratic Discourse 18 Jan 2011 | 04:42 am

In democratic discourse, is it morally acceptable for a person to violate their moral code in the short-term to avoid a longer-term ill, and where is the threshold that makes acceptable? I had a conve...

Formal vs. Informal Learning 11 Oct 2010 | 05:09 am

I have been a spectator in a number of drawn out discussions and debates over the last year in which learning and development, education and business folks have come together in an effort to define an...

A Poem for a Poet 18 Jul 2010 | 12:17 am

This week we lost a dear friend Ann Walton back in Wayland, Mass.  She had been a childhood neighbor of my wife and a very close friend of the family for decades.  I only met her in the last couple of...

Fluency and Card Games 24 Jun 2010 | 02:13 am

Last night i was reading Pierre Bourdieu’s Outline of a Theory of Practice, and happened upon his very effective use of a card game as a metaphor to explain the very complicated sociology of a Kabyle ...

Twitter, Power and Fluency 18 May 2010 | 01:55 am

Robert Gibbs recently used Twitter to give a shout out to a local bike store.  Here is the original tweet, which reads: #FF @CraigatFEMA so you know the latest @RevCycles a great bike store & special...

Easy? 24 Apr 2010 | 12:10 am

I just posted the following comment to a post by Guy Kawasaki on his blog about the premise that people favor cognitive fluency – the idea that people prefer things that are easy to think about compar...

Hitler and Electric Speed 22 Apr 2010 | 12:44 am

I just read an article on Salon magazine about the fact that Constantin Films, the producer of the original the 2004 filmDer Untergang which has become the spoofed series of YouTube viral videos, has ...

Dissertation Research Method (overview) 9 Mar 2010 | 06:15 am

Be lucky – it’s an easy skill to learn – Telegraph 21 Feb 2010 | 02:18 am

Richard Wiseman Published: 12:01AM GMT 09 Jan 2003 A decade ago, I set out to investigate luck. I wanted to examine the impact on people’s lives of chance opportunities, lucky breaks and being in the...