Category Archives: Development

08-LEAP

Overestimate

People often misjudge their abilities. Those with less than average abilities overestimate their true abilities. Those with higher don’t realize how much higher. Stupid people are too stupid to know how stupid they are. Some smart people wrongly assume that most others can do what they can.

We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Kahneman

25-PERT

Underlying

The above illustrates the user interface for website developers starting to use the new WordPress block-based page editor, now integrated into core.

Few of you might find this interesting.

The tiny portrait in upper left is of Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress.

24-FESS

Entrance

Silver City, New Mexico – Gateway to the Gila National Forest (3 million acres!)

Ideas are like stars; untouchable. But choose them as guides like a seafaring man on a desert of water follows them to destiny.

Carl Schurz, human

Life is a journey, keep moving. Don’t get stuck or complacent. Embrace change, learn from experiences, and constantly move forward towards personal and professional development.

Chat GPT, machine

11-VERA

Circumstance

When you look at an object, you see one side of it at a time; the nature of vision. When you think about something, you think about it in one context at a time; the nature of thought.

Context determines what your mind thinks just as viewing-angle determines what your eye sees.

09-WILL

Juggling

Way Up the Steps

I choose to juggle this year and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

That goal will serve to organize and measure the best of my energies & skills. That challenge is one that I am willing to accept, one I am unwilling to postpone, one which I intend to win. -thank you John F. Kennedy

05-SIGN

Consciousness

Brain activity in the pink matter (wet) comes up with a mental impulse that drives the hand to draw with pencil on paper (dry), transferring an idea into physical space. From there the graphic design, as in this example, gets uploaded into the AIR of cyberspace.

Fast and Slow is Daniel Kahneman‘s idea of thinking in terms of System One and System Two.

System One defines the fast, effortless, intuitive, almost impulsive type of thinking.

System Two describes a deliberate, slow-paced kind of thinking that involves the effort of concentration.

To Stop thinking requires training your mind to silence your thoughts. That higher level of control is achieved with deliberate, focused time & effort, through the practice of meditation.

22-GAGE

Rejection

Last night G stepped into a conversation between R and M. The problem that R was expressing to M was exactly the same problem G was experiencing.

It seemed R and G might commiserate to find the right solution for both of them. Any answers found would be to their mutual benefit.

But, because, M and R were on one team and G was on a distinctly different team, G was outside of R & M’s coupling and so, easy to dismiss.

15-PLEM

Implementation

Focus on situations with change potential:

  • High stakes – responsible for the outcome
  • Novelty – not drawn from the past
  • Challenge – done faster and/or better
  • Interaction – work with people

This approach requires serious commitment. Development requires time. The secret is to invest a few moments every day to maximize learning.

Development First by David Peterson & Mary Dee Hicks