Tag: Risk

  • Randy Nelson mentions recovering from failure

    First watch this: I was going to really generalize the title, but then decided against it and decided to draw attention only to the part he talks about recovering from setbacks/failure. This is something that really makes sense to me and it is something that I think is at the root of some of the…

  • Synergy only in advertising?

    I’ve noticed something since last week – Toyota is the only company that is really pushing the branding of it’s hybrid drive technology (after selling 1M, why not?). Sure, Ford has a few ads out as well, but Ford uses… yup Synergy (well a good portion of it anyway) as well. GM has a few…

  • Stripmining Creativity

    A colleague sent this link to me, Sir Ken Robinson’s talk at TED. I agree with everything that he said, especially the part about risk and creativity. It’s also underscoring something that people are starting to realize (in terms of technology – something that isn’t mentioned in the talk, but that I would understand it…

  • Video games are just as bad as simulations

    You know you have something wrong with your methods when a health magazine calls you out. Men’s Health noticed that the story running on BBC commenting on a German research study had their test subjects play racing games and then test their change in behaviour on a a simulator. Granted, this may have been a…

  • Exams and Death

    If you think about exams as the high stakes equivalent in a student’s career as being equivalent to death in games (as I have, otherwise I wouldn’t be writing this right? – and looking back through my backlog of starred posts, I think Mark was thinking like this as well when he was thinking like…