Improving unconferences
In thinking over my experiences at various unconferences, I’ve noticed one consistent problem: The people who get to run…
Category: Teaching/Training
Design games (or learning and playing at the same time)
Jess McMullin has a good post on design games. Years ago I ran a live design competition as part…
Seattle MindCamp wrapup
This weekend was the first seattle mindcamp: a seattle version of the O’Reilly FOO camp and Bar camp. I’ve…
The mystery of the front row
Wherever lectures happen, regardless of the size of the venue, most of the front row will be empty. Even…
Teaching programming / management the Harvard way
Here’s a crazy idea: instead of trying to teach people by drowning them in books and materials, lets put…
The 3 ways to work
As an exercise, I’ve tried to distill philosophies of work into 3 possible approaches. Dividing things into threes can…
More on unstructured events (FOO)
Apparently the FOO gathering has some conceptual ancestors. OpenSpaces is a set of techniques for allowing people to self-organize…