Laura Pike Seeley
@laurapikeseeley
Laura Pike Seeley
Creativity and Disruption: Creativity is described as emerging from the disruption of these predictive models. When our expectations are challenged or disrupted, it can lead to new ways of thinking and innovative ideas.
Balance Between Order and Chaos: The balance between order (predictive models) and chaos (disruption) is crucial for fostering creativity. Too much order can stifle creativity, while too much chaos can lead to confusion and lack of direction.
The more I think about it, the more I think this is why so many of us, myself included, are attracted to data-based optimization. We ’re painfully aware that we are vulnerable, fallible creatures. Our shame about that is reflected in Western religious traditions: The Bible tells us that upon first creating the world, God “saw that it was good,” but... See more
You can’t optimize your way to being a good person
The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology.
Max Tegmark • Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence a book by Max Tegmark
A digital workplace that strategically centers knowledge is critical to elevating your organization's learning and innovation culture.
Laura Pike Seeley • What Does It Mean to Have a Knowledge-Centric Digital Workplace?
Books you read are sending you input. Your friends modeling behaviors for you. Newspapers. Tools. People you follow on Twitter. The architecture of a Gothic church beaming serenity into you—that is input too.
At the same time, you are also sending output to other nodes. Now, I am sending these ideas into my pocket notebook, which will send them to... See more
At the same time, you are also sending output to other nodes. Now, I am sending these ideas into my pocket notebook, which will send them to... See more
Henrik Karlsson • First We Shape Our Social Graph; Then It Shapes Us
In a study published by the journal Nature in July, a team of researchers from the University of Texas at Austin, Stanford University, University of Rochester, and Google Empathy Lab found a way to do that. The researchers used a 30-minute online training session to teach participants about a mindset that sees stress as an opportunity to learn and... See more
A Better Way to Think of Stress, According to Science
What you allow your milieu to feed into your mind is what you will be processing. It is what will carve the pathways of your brain. This is perhaps well-understood, in theory if not in practice.
But it is equally important to consider who and what you are sending output to.
But it is equally important to consider who and what you are sending output to.
Henrik Karlsson • First We Shape Our Social Graph; Then It Shapes Us
to communicate well and Cognitive & Behavioral Science
What is my impact