Comments on: The possibility of sudden, significant change http://craigrandall.net/archives/2005/04/the-possibility-of-sudden-significant-change/ Thoughts about software architecture, books and life Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Getting Twitter | Craig's Musings http://craigrandall.net/archives/2005/04/the-possibility-of-sudden-significant-change/comment-page-1/#comment-20766 Getting Twitter | Craig's Musings Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:36:45 +0000 http://craigrandall.net/archives/2005/04/the-possibility-of-sudden-significant-change/#comment-20766 [...] to products and/or services that you send into the world wide market. (And if you were waiting for The Tipping Point, it’s already occurred for Twitter, [...] [...] to products and/or services that you send into the world wide market. (And if you were waiting for The Tipping Point, it’s already occurred for Twitter, [...]

]]> By: Outliers | Craig's Musings http://craigrandall.net/archives/2005/04/the-possibility-of-sudden-significant-change/comment-page-1/#comment-20684 Outliers | Craig's Musings Sat, 27 Dec 2008 03:10:39 +0000 http://craigrandall.net/archives/2005/04/the-possibility-of-sudden-significant-change/#comment-20684 [...] reading Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking and The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, I’ve been looking forward to Malcolm Gladwell’s next book. Outliers: The Story of [...] [...] reading Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking and The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, I’ve been looking forward to Malcolm Gladwell’s next book. Outliers: The Story of [...]

]]> By: Craig’s Musings » Blog Archive » Opening up OpenOffice http://craigrandall.net/archives/2005/04/the-possibility-of-sudden-significant-change/comment-page-1/#comment-60 Craig’s Musings » Blog Archive » Opening up OpenOffice Wed, 05 Oct 2005 04:56:02 +0000 http://craigrandall.net/archives/2005/04/the-possibility-of-sudden-significant-change/#comment-60 [...] Setting aside some of the hyperbole and bias that have sprung forth today, today’s press release does make me wonder if the tail will soon wag the dog. Have services reached their tipping point? Are they now leading applications and not the other way around? [...] [...] Setting aside some of the hyperbole and bias that have sprung forth today, today’s press release does make me wonder if the tail will soon wag the dog. Have services reached their tipping point? Are they now leading applications and not the other way around? [...]

]]> By: SLR http://craigrandall.net/archives/2005/04/the-possibility-of-sudden-significant-change/comment-page-1/#comment-34 SLR Mon, 16 May 2005 21:07:27 +0000 http://craigrandall.net/archives/2005/04/the-possibility-of-sudden-significant-change/#comment-34 Blink, a thought-provoking and fascinating study of decision making: spontaneous and deliberate. I am challenged and quite excited to learn how to filter out what doesn't matter. Perhaps at my age I should be skilled at this, but in relationships with the ones I love the most, that is easier said than done. To look at things familiar without making assumptions is refreshing. Yesterday at church we had a guest preacher. He was skilled, prepared, and equipped. Yet my immediate response was repulsion. It came across "canned." I neither knew the speaker nor anything about him, but I was not engaged. Was my decision so quickly made as good as one made cautiously and deliberately? Why was that my response? While at <a href="http://stonecroft.gospelcom.net/">Stonecroft</a> headquarters May 11-14, I noted the frustration of speaker trainers who have desired to try new methods while not losing the focus of the organization. Now the approach is similar to coming sideways at the issue. The accompanying freedom to try new methods invigorated the 50 women there. How much better is it to allow people to operate without having to explain themselves constantly! Concerning the empathy of dogs ... dogs are both focused on facial expressions and perhaps even more on voice inflections. Because of the later, they can hear fear, anger, sadness, and affection beyond the surface. Even dogs who have never met a person before respond to people on a deeper level. Why are their instincts so accurate, or are they? Blink, a thought-provoking and fascinating study of decision making: spontaneous and deliberate.

I am challenged and quite excited to learn how to filter out what doesn’t matter. Perhaps at my age I should be skilled at this, but in relationships with the ones I love the most, that is easier said than done. To look at things familiar without making assumptions is refreshing.

Yesterday at church we had a guest preacher. He was skilled, prepared, and equipped. Yet my immediate response was repulsion. It came across “canned.” I neither knew the speaker nor anything about him, but I was not engaged. Was my decision so quickly made as good as one made cautiously and deliberately? Why was that my response?

While at Stonecroft headquarters May 11-14, I noted the frustration of speaker trainers who have desired to try new methods while not losing the focus of the organization. Now the approach is similar to coming sideways at the issue. The accompanying freedom to try new methods invigorated the 50 women there. How much better is it to allow people to operate without having to explain themselves constantly!

Concerning the empathy of dogs … dogs are both focused on facial expressions and perhaps even more on voice inflections. Because of the later, they can hear fear, anger, sadness, and affection beyond the surface. Even dogs who have never met a person before respond to people on a deeper level. Why are their instincts so accurate, or are they?

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