Comments on: Cory Doctorow, how to blog and the completeness of unfinished work. http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2007/10/14/doctorow-blog-tips-incompleteness/ Social media, active citizens, podcasting, neighbourhoods and more. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:51:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Cory Doctorow, how to blog and the completeness of unfinished work. « Blogs http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2007/10/14/doctorow-blog-tips-incompleteness/#comment-39569 Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:10:51 +0000 http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2007/10/14/doctorow-blog-tips-incompleteness/#comment-39569 [...] read more | digg story [...] [...] read more | digg story [...]

]]> by: nick booth http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2007/10/14/doctorow-blog-tips-incompleteness/#comment-36307 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:22:56 +0000 http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2007/10/14/doctorow-blog-tips-incompleteness/#comment-36307 That's interesting Kevin. It makes sense to me - a bloke. It may make less sense to my beloved. The interesting thing about the Getting things done book is it helps you turn incomplete ideas intp practical actions you can do next - and so get things done. It helps you complete lots of smaller tasks - in pursuit of a longer (perhaps less focussed) goal. Our experience on a neighbourhood level here is that small practical steps need to make sense on a day to day basis, even though they may not complete the bigger ambitions. (the unfinished task). That’s interesting Kevin. It makes sense to me – a bloke. It may make less sense to my beloved. The interesting thing about the Getting things done book is it helps you turn incomplete ideas intp practical actions you can do next – and so get things done. It helps you complete lots of smaller tasks – in pursuit of a longer (perhaps less focussed) goal.

Our experience on a neighbourhood level here is that small practical steps need to make sense on a day to day basis, even though they may not complete the bigger ambitions. (the unfinished task).

]]> by: Kevin Harris http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2007/10/14/doctorow-blog-tips-incompleteness/#comment-36303 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:41:21 +0000 http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2007/10/14/doctorow-blog-tips-incompleteness/#comment-36303 Meself, I'm curious about the apparent (I'm going by names) gender imbalance in these insights. Any thoughts Nick, (polished or not)? k Meself, I’m curious about the apparent (I’m going by names) gender imbalance in these insights. Any thoughts Nick, (polished or not)?

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]]> by: Simon Baddeley http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2007/10/14/doctorow-blog-tips-incompleteness/#comment-36268 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:58:34 +0000 http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2007/10/14/doctorow-blog-tips-incompleteness/#comment-36268 I came across Zeigarnik in connection with gestalt psychology. Older colleagues were talking about incomplete gestalts and predicting the future. They found her work useful. How much of a sneeze must you hear before you know its a sneeze and not a cough? How much of the first bars of a tune must you hear before you recognise it? They were saying that because their growth may be logarithmic their character is well formed and rooted long before they are widely recognisable - e.g to the outsider the difference between an onion and and oak in their early stages is not easily discerned yet their futures are very predictable to those who do know, and in retrospect to those who didn't. As you know there is an accompanying view that novel trends have their lustiest growth unrecognised because they grow parasitically on more familiar forms, their presence only known via the decay of the familiar form as its energy is sapped by the newer. Discuss this notion in relation to narrowcasting versus broadcasting. I came across Zeigarnik in connection with gestalt psychology. Older colleagues were talking about incomplete gestalts and predicting the future. They found her work useful. How much of a sneeze must you hear before you know its a sneeze and not a cough? How much of the first bars of a tune must you hear before you recognise it? They were saying that because their growth may be logarithmic their character is well formed and rooted long before they are widely recognisable – e.g to the outsider the difference between an onion and and oak in their early stages is not easily discerned yet their futures are very predictable to those who do know, and in retrospect to those who didn’t. As you know there is an accompanying view that novel trends have their lustiest growth unrecognised because they grow parasitically on more familiar forms, their presence only known via the decay of the familiar form as its energy is sapped by the newer. Discuss this notion in relation to narrowcasting versus broadcasting.

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