Laura Pike Seeley
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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.
It’s human nature to tackle obstacles head-on, but this often results in us banging our heads against the wall or feeling completely paralyzed. The secret of hackers is that instead of avoiding or confronting the bottlenecks that lie in their way, they work around them.
Why Managers Should Think More Like Hackers
Empathy and consideration for your users are foundational elements of change management. The change should serve your people and the business in equal measure. Crafting your messaging with the same eye toward employee experience is critical, and knowing what will improve employee experience means knowing, relating to and responding to your... See more
Laura Pike Seeley • Change Management Communications: Overcoming Resistance Through Empathy
Among the troubadours, there was a different class of people, called knowms. The council was told that the knowms had some special skills that may help solve the problem. They knew enough of techknowspeak to be able to converse with the wizards and to read and understand their parchments. They also had travelled around the land; they knew the serfs... See more
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More than a penchant for suffering, and more than a need to challenge ourselves, humans are a species that can adapt. In times of flux and epochal change, there’s often a peculiar strain of natural law among nervous, conservative minds — the “natural” way of man is right, so don’t meddle with it. This strain was there when we developed... See more
Jonny Thomson • Philosopher Nick Bostrom's predictions on life in an AI utopia
There are two factions working to prevent AI dangers. Here’s why they’re deeply divided.
Kelsey Pipervox.com
The plan for the Orbit is a grid of streets radiating around a dense central district, with proposed mid-rise towers, plentiful open spaces, and a mix of residential, commercial, and civic buildings. The center point of the plan is a commuter rail station that links Innisfil and other suburban communities to Toronto.