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From: liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham)
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Subject: Re: Interview Question (your Sunday ruined part 2)
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 11:20:23 +0000
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Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> wrote:

> On a sunny day (Mon, 28 Oct 2024 11:25:51 -0700) it happened john larkin
> <jl@glen--canyon.com> wrote in <galvhjds4u1rtuu8515mb1o769qhibga15@4ax.com>:
> 
> >On Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:18:52 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
> >wrote:
> >
> >>On a sunny day (Mon, 28 Oct 2024 08:17:36 -0700) it happened john larkin
> >><JL@gct.com> wrote in <jaavhjd47r91dcva8mjffo6f7q7ehgk855@4ax.com>:
> >>
> >>>On Mon, 28 Oct 2024 06:06:38 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
> >>>wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>On a sunny day (Sun, 27 Oct 2024 10:37:19 -0700) it happened john larkin
> >>>><JL@gct.com> 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.
> >>
> >>Nature is very inventive, plants, animals,
> >>maybe spending some time there helps?
> >>There are simple drawing programs for on your smartphone or laptop
> >>that can be usd to show somebody more complex things wherever you are,
> >>even via the internet (My laptop has a Huawei 4G stick, is on 4G)
> >>I do need a working mouse however..
> >
> >Thinking while hiking avoids the Eyeball Effect, the fact that most
> >people change their behavior as a function of how many eyeballs are
> >aimed at them. Actors and musicians and politicians have extreme
> >eyeball sensitivity, get high from big audiences. Most autistic people
> >have little or none.
> >
> >Eyeball Effect distorts clear thinking. Hiking with people, you seldom
> >see their eyeballs.
> >
> >I've noticed that animals, cats and dogs and birds, are sensitive to
> >eyeball effect too. It's probably a component of their threat
> >evaluation.
> 
> Every evening I put out some food for the birds here, mostly crows.
> Last night I checked and the neighbor's cat was eating it...
> It did not even care when I tapped against the window ... was hungry likely.
> The crows know me, they greet me .. crows are very smart.

You haven't put up a cart wheel on a pole for the storks?  Perhaps you
could make one that doubled as a 'halo' aerial, which increased its
bandwidth during the nesting season when the presence of the storks
lowered the 'Q'.


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