Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: john larkin Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Interview Question (your Sunday ruined part 2) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 08:17:36 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <9o1qhjp80ddmpqpskaka7hicergps33be6@4ax.com> <3gtshjh0v2s0ahia7d9lcfnp0nj6a13nga@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:17:39 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="8867acbdda2d736807c7d586e949946e"; logging-data="1113434"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18L6d+iD+IJj0GDpOXB8Vft" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:E3qF3tTA72N66Q08MqIBa8FOS3Q= Bytes: 2438 On Mon, 28 Oct 2024 06:06:38 GMT, Jan Panteltje wrote: >On a sunny day (Sun, 27 Oct 2024 10:37:19 -0700) it happened john larkin > wrote in <3gtshjh0v2s0ahia7d9lcfnp0nj6a13nga@4ax.com>: > >>In our new office/design center we don't have a real conference room, >>so we go on group hikes around the Bernal Cut or in Glen Canyon. That >>seems to really work, getting physical outdoors with the crew. I just >>wish that more trees had whiteboards. > >Go to the beach and draw in the sand? We'd have to drive to a beach (ocean or Bay or Gate are about equal distances) and that would be a nuisance with parking and such. And the graphic resolution of sand is mediocre. No whiteboard forces more mental visualization. We can bail on the hike and go back to the office and whiteboard, max delay about 20 minutes. Architectural and management concepts work in a hike, circuit design not so well. Percolating ideas is an interesting process. There must be books on the subject. The physical situation seems to matter.