David Ing

Trying IFTTT If This Then That to tie Google+ posts to Facebook. Tasks-triggers-actions-channels may be different paradigm from Twitterfeed that I've been using, may enable additional use cases. - David Ing

@sachac An exit interview is a learning opportunity for both the employer and the employee.  The question as to whether the departure is due to a single event or a long term issue presents an opportunity for reflection.  Many people seem to pursue jobs as though it’s a competition, but it’s really about fit.  Your [...] - David Ing

Is the office cubicle going into slow decline? Mobile computing, plus collaboration spaces. - David Ing

Lower demand for new offices buildings, and more renovations instead, as mobile computing shifts needs to collaboration spaces?  A panel of Building Owners and Managers convened at Georgetown University. The experts agreed that, with the exception of a handful of core markets such as New York and San Francisco, the country’s existing property supply likely [...] - David Ing

In service systems, people have roles and machines have functions. Is the idea of job an industrial age artifact? - David Ing

Rethink work not as jobs, but as roles?  Sometimes deep skills, sometimes cross-functional, as T-shaped professionals?  Josh Bersin writes: Jobs are getting more specialized, people work in teams and cross functional boundaries, and success is being redefined by expertise, not span of control. And people without specialized skills are finding it harder to find work. [...] - David Ing

Can service systems science help appreciate how "information wants to be expensive" works with "information wants to be free"? On the path from +Stewart Brand to Jaron Lanier to +Peter Jones, the perspective of content producers and content consumers. - David Ing

In the first iteration “information wants to be expensive” before “information wants to be free”, says Stewart Brand. In fall 1984, at the first Hackers Conference, I said in one discussion session: “On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it’s so valuable.  The right information in the right place just changes your [...] - David Ing

Route Map and Access Map - David Ing

For those of you who are considering living in Tokyo or want to see more of daily life, this new series is for you. From now on I'll be taking you for a gander around various train stations in Tokyo. Located around most stations is a shopping area called "Shotengai" [[しょうてんがい]商店街]. Shotengai usually consists of the post office, beauty salons, doctors, dentists, convenience store, restaurants, pachinko parlors, supermarkets and so on. Today we have a lookie around the Oimachi station shotengai which we explored for the first time the other night. - David Ing

(Top of page is east, Atre is at south) - David Ing

Economic inequality and cultural gap as class distinctions aren't unrelated. More study of Charles Murray to discern scientific validity, as compared to right wing or left wing spin. Pierre Bourdieu's theory of class distinction could be a useful foil. - David Ing

Inequality gap as upper class stable, lower class downward in cultural gap, says Charles Murray.   Top 20% and bottom 20% workers and children never meet.  Compare with Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of class distinction? Inequality has soared, and that should worry everyone. [...] Now comes Charles Murray to lob a grenade into this progressive wishful thinking. [...] - David Ing

Realized I’ve been tying shoelaces with granny knots, better ways explained by Dr. Shoelace, with 18 alternatives. Whether you’re after shoelace tying speed, simplicity, security or style, here’s eighteen different shoelace knots to choose from, including several that I’ve created. From “Shoelace Knots” | Ian’s Shoelace Site at http://www.fieggen.com/shoelac.... Granny and proper knots described in [...] - David Ing

Federal government could invest in future by funding students to study abroad, as is common in other countries. Original article “University leaders want more Canadians to study abroad” | Jamie Bradshaw | Feb. 3, 2012 | The Globe and Mail at http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news.... Some supporting context in the pre-budget submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance, “Canada’s universities: navigating through the changing world”, August 2011 | Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada at http://www.aucc.ca/media-r.... - David Ing

Innovation may be encouraged through undergrad students with international experience: 12% of Canadian undergrads, compared to 20% in U.S., and one-third in Germany.  More public funding needed? … when 25 university presidents converged in Ottawa to discuss Canada’s innovation agenda with parliamentarians on Tuesday, several of them cautioned that more homegrown students need to study [...] - David Ing

@ Siang Yu Tang - Neighbourhood acupuncture for fatigue. Needles in neck and back of hands, rather than down back. Vision cleared in seconds - David Ing

Still have the thrill of a child while riding the Seabus on the morning commute. What is it about crossing water? - David Ing

Touring Skid Row in Vancouver. Reputation as tough neighbourhood, poorest urban zone in Canada preserved. Never went there when I lived here 1982-1984. Went before sun set. - David Ing

@ Firehall Arts Center - Display of pigment prints by Leonard Cohen 2008-2011. Chelsea Hotel play previews tomorrow, I will leave Vancouver on plane - David Ing

@warstrekkid When I developed a course in Finland,  student blogs were a way to enlarge interaction to a larger world.  I had colleagues from around the world looking and commenting on student blogs, with an understanding that students may have only just read deep articles a day or two earlier. For my own research, I [...] - David Ing

@warstrekkid Full-time, in-person university education is a privilege.  Distinctions between learning and teaching should be appreciated.  Unlike high school where (sometimes coercive “push”) teaching is required for adolescents, university education should student centered with opportunities to “pull” knowledge from some of the world’s great thinkers.  In-person participation enables interaction, and shouldn’t be confused with artifacts [...] - David Ing

Systemicists Credibility gap in "No Need to Panic About Global Warning" article in WSJ signed by 16 scientists? Opinion piece at http://online.wsj.com/article... Repudiation about sources by D.R. Tucker "Scared of Science" at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/d-r-tuc... , citing Peter Gleick | "Remarkable Editorial Bias on Climate Science at the Wall Street Journal" | Jan. 27, 2012 | Forbes at http://www.forbes.com/sites... Comments: 0 - David Ing

Ethnoculturally-focused nursing homes have better outcomes (and more familiar foods). Example cited is Yee Hong, in Toronto. > WEIGHT: 6.7 per cent of residents in mainstream Ontario nursing homes experienced weight loss between April and June of last year, compared with 2.55 per cent at Yee Hong’s locations. > DEPRESSION: 25.1 per cent of Ontario’s nursing home residents reported worsened mood from symptoms of depression after admission. At Yee Hong, the average is 3.35 per cent. > The average fall rate at Ontario’s mainstream homes over four months was 13.6 per cent. At Yee Hong’s centres, it was 8.9 per cent. The rate of nursing home residents reporting pain across Ontario is 11.6 per cent, compared with 4.4 per cent at Yee Hong. - David Ing

Supporting a collapsing political economy, or preparing for the next generation system? Joseph Stiglitz on structural shift, amplified by Steve Denning. - David Ing

The structural shift from manufacturing economy to service economy can be denied or encouraged by society in general, and governments in particular.  Joseph Stiglitz writes: The parallels between the story of the origin of the Great Depression and that of our Long Slump are strong. Back then we were moving from agriculture to manufacturing. Today [...] - David Ing