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  • The Dangerous Art of the Right Question
    Insight questions can only be asked after you develop situation awareness. They are necessarily local and unique to the situation. When you are faced with a difficult situation, you will start as a prisoner of the unanswerable/too expensive formulaic questions, and your first job is to break out. The reason the weird “right questions” work is that they expose cracks in your default, formulaic mental model. By attacking those cracks, you force the useless default mental model to collapse, creating room for a new one.
    (tags: analysis communication insight problem-solving must-read)
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  • Disputed chemical bisphenol-A found in paper receipts
    The headline is misleading – there's nothing in dispute about BPA. It's toxic and unsafe. Since I first read about this, I started paying attention to where my receipts go. The ones that get dumped in my food bag at a fast food place are the most alarming, but the others that get handed to me at checkout end up in my bag, in my pockets – places I touch them and then later eat. I've started to be super careful about how I handle them, but the fact that they've been rolling around in my camera bag that I've never washed out — yeah. Alarming.
    (tags: bpa bisphenol-a environment health receipts)
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links for 2010-07-31

  • The willpower paradox – Bobulate
    "The results were provocative. People with wondering minds completed significantly more anagrams than did those with willful minds. In other words, the people who kept their minds open were more goal-directed and more motivated than those who declared their objective to themselves." — this is highly significant information. I get way more done when I don't make a list of "to do" items than I do if I make the list. I do better wandering around the house putting things away, than I do if I'm on task.
    (tags: behavior productivity motivation focus psychology)
  • Common objects. Uncommonly BIG sizes!
    Giant stuff you can buy. Hmmmm.
    (tags: shopping props bigthings)
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links for 2010-07-30

  • Indiana's girls at higher risk of violence
    The survey does not deal with the context in which those rapes might have occurred or when they might have happened. But it found the percentage of Indiana high school girls who had experienced dating violence — who had been hit, slapped or physically hurt by a boyfriend in the previous 12 months — was higher than the national average: 13.7 percent compared with 9.3 percent nationwide.
    (tags: Indiana misogyny violence feminism)
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