The Book Exercise. Via danah boyd:
- Grab the nearest book.
- Open the book to page 23.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
"The problem is our minds are so locked in one frequency, it's as though we can only see at 78 RPM; we can't see anything at 33 1/2."
From Peter M. Senge's "The Fifth Discipline". Oddly, I haven't actually opened this book for a long time, but it is the nearest at hand! How telling about the lack of organization in my office. Also, noticed a sticky indicating the place where I stopped reading... And in the age of CDs and DVDs, let alone MP3 players - this quote seems a bit quaint.
On another note, I actually like the sentence above. My mind is so easily locked into one frequency, that am now two hours, seven minutes past when I wanted to eat lunch! So guess what I'm going to do after finishing this entry?...
Another great quote from page 40 - where I happened to flip randomly, within the section titled "Lessons of the Beer Game" - point 2, the "structure in human systems is subtle". What would all the social networking software folks think of this? He goes on to define structure as the basic interrelationships that control behavior. So, what is the
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