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Multidisciplinary State of Mind

As a first-post intro, I’ll tell a short story about how experience in systems engineering shaped my approach to general problem solving. I spent a decade or so as an aerospace engineer. I designed...

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Rise of the Expert Generalist

Expert generalists may soon have their day in the sun. If the idea of expert generalist doesn’t sit well with you, please bear with me through some terminology. The terms multidisciplinary,...

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Foursquare – Devils in the Data

Foursquare is in the news again today. Naveen Selvadurai’s is leaving. I’m not interested in predicting the outcome of Foursquare; plenty of people already do that. I’m interested in looking at the...

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Visual Thinking

Do you think in words – or in pictures? Various communities use the term visual thinking in different but related ways. Thinking about pictures, communicating with pictures, advertisement and...

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Sources of Wisdom and Madness

My previous post, Wisdom and Madness of the Yelp Crowd, was a bit on the long side so I didn’t want to clutter it up with references. Here’s two books and a list of relevant papers I’ve enjoyed...

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A Helicopter Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

“Fail early and often.” This war cry du jour of speakers on entrepreneurial innovation addresses several aspects of what big companies need to learn from little ones about market dynamics at the speed...

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Multidisciplinaires par Excellence

This weekend I was pleased to take part in the Third Annual Berkeley Ancient Italy Roundtable (BAIR) conference. The event, chaired by Ted Peña, UC Berkeley Department of Classics, promotes interaction...

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Incommensurability and the Design-Engineering Gap

Those who conceptualize products – particularly software – often have the unpleasant task of explaining their conceptual gems to unimaginative, sanctimonious engineers entrenched in the analytic mire...

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