Learning

I focus more on learning than on teaching.

I believe it is my responsibility to learn.

The organizations I work for may help me:
a) by telling me what I need to learn to be more valuable.
b) by creating an environment that makes learning easier for me.
c) by allowing access to organizational knowledge (people and documents).

But at the end of the day, like I said ...
It is my responsibility to learn.

Fungus

Tears

To me, emotions are like little personal compasses that help us drive our lives by pointing at right and wrong.
If it feels right, then it is right, If it feels wrong, then it is wrong.

Reading and using those little compasses is much harder than using the North/South magnetic needle kind, because they are subjective and easily manipulated. You may recall that after a few conversations with the Emperor, Darth Vader's emotions moved him the wrong way.

Emotions are felt as physical sensations: your bowels ache, you lose your breath, your heart runs wild, and your throat goes dry. I will not bore you with the details, mainly because I don't understand them, but tears are one of the ways your conscience tells you things about you. You know ... things.

I could tell you about my tears, when they come, and what they mean, but I guess that is a little too personal to be shared and understood.

Fungus

Intent

Whether I want it or not, I guess at the intention of a speaker behind his words, but I try to remember that those are my guesses, and not the speaker's intentions.

Those guesses become part of my mental model, and I use them to predict behaviour.
The first sketches are very rough ... for people I've interacted with only a few times, I use quick and standard labels, and I slowly improve my labels with detail (new data and guesses) about relevant things that --in my mental model-- make each individual different.

I try to remember that those labels don't describe or determine the individual.
They are not reality, but my view of reality.

I see it as some sort of scientific theory that explains the known facts, and is helpful to predict results, but may be proved wrong at any time by new data.

Fungus

Sales

Some times I just feel I've been left outside.

I believe sales techniques should inform potential customers about the true characteristics of a product or service, so that the customer may take an informed decision to buy or not.

When the advertised quality is that the product is worth walking a mile, or that it will make me smell soo good that girls will fall for me, or that it's so delicious that a handsome teenager would kiss an ugly old lady to get Klondyke's double chocolate bar, I just don't get it.

I feel that I've been left outside looking in, and glad to feel so.

Fungus

Knowledge

To learn a lot of things does not make you smart.

It only makes you know a lot of things.

If you are smart, you will use your knowledge wisely. If you are very smart, you will use your knowledge to improve your lot, and the lot of those you care for.

It has been said before that if you are very very smart, you will find that your best shot at happiness is to care for every person, animal, plant and rock.

Not because you're humble, but because you're smart.

Well. That's what I've heard, but I don't know. Fungus