I realize that, with this crowd I'm probably stating the obvious ... but for those who haven't read it, this is exactly what Gladwell's book Blink is about.
-Ted On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Nicholas Thompson < [email protected]> wrote: > Ahhhh. That's talent. > > Nick > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf > Of Raymond Parks > Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 2:46 PM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Expertise, etcetera > > Victoria Hughes wrote: > ... Instead, Dijksterhuis' study suggests that the best > > experts naturally depend on their unconscious mind, on that > > subterranean warehouse of feelings, hunches and instincts...." > > I know that's how I've always worked. I look at a system (people, > processes, technology) and I understand it - I don't diagram it, I don't > analyze it, I just find out about it and out pops how it works (and how it > will react to stimuli). That helps a lot when figuring out how to > stimulate > the system into failure or into doing what I want it to do (not necessarily > what the owners want it to do). > > -- > Ray Parks [email protected] > Consilient Heuristician Voice: 505-844-4024 > ATA Department Mobile: 505-238-9359 > http://www.sandia.gov/scada Fax: 505-844-9641 http://www.sandia.gov/idart > Pager:505-951-6084 > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, > unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- Ted Carmichael, Ph.D. Complex Systems Institute Department of Software and Information Systems College of Computing and Informatics 310-A Woodward Hall UNC Charlotte Charlotte, NC 28223 [email protected] [email protected] Phone: 704-492-4902
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