Warren Kinston
22. February 2012 11:00
I've been correcting some minor typos today on the Taxonomy's framework for creativity, second section just posted. I wonder if it will connect with people? That set off musings…
The blogosphere is full of creativity at present and most of it is about getting ideas. But ideas are easy. Even good ideas are rather easy. All that's required to make an idea good is for someone to call it 'good'. Or even 'brilliant'. Or, to be on the cutting edge of language, 'awesome'.
Being in a group is a great way to More...
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Warren Kinston
Warren Kinston
8. February 2012 10:52
I am currently struggling to get a phrase right. Well, not exactly a phrase—a name.
Can you help me? I hope so. Let me put you in the picture.
The heart of the Taxonomy is identifying something and then giving it a really good name, so that everyone can immediately recognize what is being referred to. The goals are: precision (i.e. exactness), resonance (i.e. generates the right vibes) and differentiation (i.e. discriminates from related, similar things). Of course, in the process of identifying anything, I have to use words to describe what I am focusing on. These are usually imperfect names, More...
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Warren Kinston
Warren Kinston
2. February 2012 16:41
THEE is its own compact world. Many webpages in TOP are equivalent to a book. Sometimes a paragraph, occasionally even a sentence or two, summarize a whole textbook containing elaborate explanations and vast amounts of evidence. But, for me, a sentence or two is all that is required because the matter is so simple and so obvious—and so important. So very important and, as it is a sentence, so memorable.
The compression of knowledge in THEE is enormous. For those used to scanning—which I am told is the whole Millennial generation—TOP webpages must be the essence of frustration. Perhaps the solution, for them, is to More...
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Warren Kinston