In his book Everything Bad is Good for You, Steven Johnson (who blogs at stevenberlinjohnson.com) puts forth the argument that Pop Culture - especially video games - contributes to the intelligence and mental agility of today’s youth.
In his fourth book, Everything Bad Is Good for You, iconoclastic science writer Steven Johnson … takes on one [...]
In addition to exploring the nature of mastery itself, this blog is a way for me to continue my own pursuit of mastery in the technology and techniques of blogging (believe me, I’m still learning). When I decided to make the switch to WordPress, I realized that even though I had learned a lot about [...]
Catching up on blogs and e-mail, I saw that Matt Homann has posted details on the upcoming meeting of the Soulard Idea Market on 8 August here in St. Louis. It looks to be an enjoyable, and very interesting evening with the following on the ‘agenda’:
Initial Brainstorming
Idea Speed Dating (the one I’m most looking forward [...]
Over the past two weeks, USA Gymnastics held the Junior Olympics National Championships in Trampoline and Tumbling. Competition ranged from young beginners to experienced elite level athletes and everything in between, with corresponding levels of mastery displayed along the way. As the proud parent of a competitor - my younger son Ian - I’ve seen [...]
Before beginning a discussion on mastery, or any topic, it is useful to explain exactly what it is you want to talk about. Sometimes, this is much easier said than done. (Anyone with experience in the field of Knowledge Management knows exactly what I’m talking about.)
It was the following definition of mastery from George Leonard [...]
This posting is a community experiment that tests how a meme, represented by this blog posting, spreads across blogspace, physical space and time. It will help to show how ideas travel across blogs in space and time and how blogs are connected. It may also help to show which blogs are most influential in the [...]
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From the Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain, Department of Clinical Neurology, University of Oxford is a paper titled Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI): A “window” into the brain.
A very good, detailed introduction into basic brain functions and how fMRI works (also a little bit about how it is different from [...]
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