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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: Interview Question (your Sunday ruined part 2)
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 21:00:58 +1100
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On 29/10/2024 5:28 pm, Jan Panteltje 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.

But not al that choosy.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney