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From: Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Interview Question (your Sunday ruined part 2)
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 06:28:56 GMT
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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.