Notes from the Radio interview with David Robinson. “Senior Consultant to Education International, the global federation of teachers unions, David Robinson is very unhappy at the way universities are being refocused for the purposes of commercial enterprise rather than academia and scholarship.” Paradox: governments and decision makers claim Universities and Higher Education is more important…
Notes from ADL2012, Auckland Wednesday, Feb 8, 2012 Outline Definite Android Design morning tea follows Market services for Developers ICS: communication, Connectivity & Camera after lunch – practical sessions and codelab http://bit.ly/adl2012 Starting at 9:20. Running slightly late. Conversations on Twitter: #adl2012 What’s the best way to contact the developers team: * Stackoverflow, android section…
On motivation and work incentives “Drive: the surprising truth of what motivates us” by Daniel Pink TED talk on motivation by Daniel Pink TED talk on buggy moral codes, by Dan Ariely Extrinsic vs Intrinsic Extrinsic vs intrinsic motivation, definitions and examples. Evidence of extrinsic motivators interfering with intrinsic motivation. Examples Lepper and Greene studies on painting…
BBC audio broadcast on research on meditation and mindfulness In 2003 there were only about 60 peer-reviewed studies, and now, peer reviewed studies on meditation and mindfulness coming up with the rate of 40 per month. Research confirms mental health benefits of sitting still in a silence for few minutes each day. Mindfulness combats stress, can…
Is it possible for a scientist who never had schizophrenia to study schizophrenics? Is it possible for a researcher who never run 100km race or took part in IronMan to study endurance sports? Is it possible to utter a truth about endurance sports while searching Internet and reading data sheets in the comfort of one’s…
Lecture by Marten Mickos. Free flowing notes from the lecture and random thoughts: Entrepreneurship is a belief system. You essentially must believe in something that is bigger than yourself, bigger than VCs, bigger than the business you are in. You must believe that you can do something enormous for this planet. Something that you can…
Wednesday morning: Rod Drury talks about New Zealand Internet connectivity (off-shore connectivity). Content and people matters more than technologies and pipes. Stimulate the uptake of fibre-to-home by combining TV, Sky, Netflix, iTunes to be available over combined pipes so that customer will purchase the connectivity due to better incentives. Foster debates, but limit trolling. Try…
Talk by Antti Aulasvirta from UIx group at HIIT. Typical pattern in HCI: H I C, with mobile devices the role of E (environment) becomes paramount. The picture is extended by E H, not only for “noise” but also for other cognitive cues and other factors. Walking reduces the performance of other tasks, roughly by…
“If I should have a daughter, instead of Mom, she’s gonna call me Point B” Performance in New York’s Bowery Poetry Club in New York City in 2008 Recently, Sarah Kay gave a TED talk, and on the beginning she performed the same poem again. It is worth watching both versions. In the span of 3…
“Reflecting on his life, my father determined that his most important insight is that you shouldn’t take yourself too seriously nor judge others too harshly. He wishes he had been more tolerant of mistakes he made and those made by others, and that he could have seen that failury is a normal part of the…