tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-98586602024-03-07T01:02:35.479-08:00mosscomics, travel, tech, pop culture, analysisMosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09666661574424894941noreply@blogger.comBlogger401125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9858660.post-22973920655758591852022-05-18T09:32:00.002-07:002022-05-18T09:33:40.154-07:00Becoming a More Creative Engineer - Part 2<p> <a href="http://mxmossman.blogspot.com/2022/05/becoming-more-creative-engineer-part-1.html" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px;">Becoming a More Creative Engineer Part 1</a><span face="Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 19px;"> </span><span face="Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 19px;">talked about</span><span face="Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 19px;"> </span><em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px;">why</em><span face="Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 19px;"> </span><span face="Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 19px;">we, as engineers, should practice becoming more creative. Now let’s talk about</span><span face="Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 19px;"> </span><em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px;">how</em><span face="Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 19px;"> </span><span face="Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 19px;">to do that.</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; text-align: center;"><figure style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); 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font-size: 1.375em; font-weight: var(--font_weight_headings_preset, bold); line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0px 0.625em;">How?</h3><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Normally we think of engineers as using convergent thinking. That is: bringing together all the facts and then synthesizing a solution to the problem. This is a good method, but it may not fully stretch the boundaries of creative thinking. While convergent thinking uses logic, there are other methods to be more creative while problem solving.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"></p><div class="captioned-image-container" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; 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font-size: 1.125em; font-weight: var(--font_weight_headings_preset, bold); line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0px 0.625em;">Lateral thinking - thinking wider</h4><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Conventional vertical thinking often inhibits our ability to solve problems and come up with new ideas. He then shows that lateral thinking is a far easier and more natural way to generate simple, sound and effective ideas </p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Edward deBono has a method called “<a href="https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTED_07.htm" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #1a1a1a;">Six Thinking Hats</a>” that provides ways of Looking at a Decisions from different perspectives</p><ul style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Conductor's Hat - the manager, controlling</p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Creative Hat - exploring possible solutions</p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Hat for the Heart - emotional response</p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Optimist's Hat - accentuate the positive</p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Judge's Hat - assessing risks & what can go wrong</p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Factual Hat - look at the facts & what data is missing</p></li></ul><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">You can additionally work this way by literally expanding your audience</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Have you heard of “Explain to a duck”? This works for answering questions like</p><ul style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Does the UI make sense?</p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Is the documentation correct, engaging and sufficient?</p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">What am I missing? Explain to a duck </p></li></ul><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Take this and expand your audiences even wider:</p><ul style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Explain to a SME</p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Explain to another team member</p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Explain to your parents - or someone who will question all your assumptions</p></li></ul><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">This leads to lateral thinking, but it also helps with empathy.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">You can get in touch with how other people think about your software. Later, as you’re developing or testing, tap into the person’s input (persona) to answer what they would do in such a case.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Personal activities - widen your vision</p><ul style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Subscribe to newsletters or mailing lists that aren’t directly relevant to your job - something that interests you but you have no idea about</p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Try temporarily swapping roles with someone on the team (or pairing, in swapped roles)</p></li></ul><ul style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Put together a public talk</p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Read as widely as possible</p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Volunteer for a position unrelated to your expertise</p></li></ul><h4 style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; 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font-size: 1.125em; font-weight: var(--font_weight_headings_preset, bold); line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0px 0.625em;">Divergent thinking - leaps of thought </h4><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">There are <a href="https://instructionaldesignfusions.wordpress.com/2010/10/23/strategies-and-tools-for-divergent-thinking/" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #1a1a1a;">four general guidelines</a> for supporting divergent thinking:</p><ul style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Deferring judgment (this includes both criticism and praise)</p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Encouraging the numbers—collecting every possible idea</p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Supporting the strange—striving for the unusual and encouraging different perspectives</p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Looking for combinations of ideas that might work together; i.e., building off the ideas of others</p></li></ul><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Creating arbitrary constraints is one way to spur divergent thinking. For example:</p><ul style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Today, try testing your system without an internet connection internet</p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Tomorrow, use only the keyboard, no mouse or other pointing systems</p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">What if you could ask only 1 things of your customers? What would it be?</p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Create a list of constraints. </p></li></ul><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">I like to have a (ridiculous) framework for divergence</p><ul style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Inside, outside, upside down</p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue</p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Practice translation</p></li></ul><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">“Musicians do not record nature's sounds; they translate feelings about nature into musical notes. Likewise, visual artists do not mimic reality but translate it into a visual vocabulary.” — Kevin Macpherson, Landscape Painting Inside and Out</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">As a knowledge worker, you are translating real world systems into models. This is a creative activity. There are ways to practice these skills.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Team activities:</p><ul style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Share some brain teasers </p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Practice seemingly simple exercises and push them as far as possible</p><ul style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Test a button</p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Test a Triangle</p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Come up with as many different uses for the humble paper clip as they can in a short amount of time.</p></li></ul></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Organize practice sessions that are also productive: What 3 questions would you ask your users that are the most valuable? (3 Question Mingle)</p></li></ul><h3 style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: var(--font_family_headings, var(--font_family_headings_preset, "SF Compact Display", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol")); font-size: 1.375em; font-weight: var(--font_weight_headings_preset, bold); line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0px 0.625em;"></h3><div class="captioned-image-container" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; 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font-size: 1.375em; font-weight: var(--font_weight_headings_preset, bold); line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0px 0.625em;">Enhancements to Creativity</h3><ul style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Take breaks</p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Leave slack time</p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Get exercise</p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Get <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/platform-success/201902/how-sleep-can-help-your-team-make-better-decisions" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #1a1a1a;">enough sleep</a></p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Giving your brain time to wander will let <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7180068/" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #1a1a1a;">System 2 go to work</a>.</p></li></ul><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">A short story about System 2. Several years ago I had just bought a new laptop and finished and it took nearly the whole day to install everything and configure it the way I wanted. I took the laptop upstairs to the office before going to bed and I dropped it! Luckily nothing broke, but one of the keys flew off the keyboard. I tried to push it back on, but the little structure for holding the keys baffled me. I couldn’t get it fixed. Giving up, I went to bed.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">The next morning I woke up with the answer of how to reattach the broken key at the forefront of my mind. Evidently, during the night, my System 2 brain had been working on solving the problem of reattaching the key. It’s true that sleep and slack time will help solve the problems while your System 1 mind is at rest or distracted.</p><div class="captioned-image-container" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; text-align: center;"><figure style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; 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--tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;" type="image/webp"></source><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2aa5ed52-7f1c-44f2-901d-87b0b9c3c235_2593x2261.png","fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1270,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1002376,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null}" height="1270" sizes="100vw" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2aa5ed52-7f1c-44f2-901d-87b0b9c3c235_2593x2261.png" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2aa5ed52-7f1c-44f2-901d-87b0b9c3c235_2593x2261.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2aa5ed52-7f1c-44f2-901d-87b0b9c3c235_2593x2261.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2aa5ed52-7f1c-44f2-901d-87b0b9c3c235_2593x2261.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2aa5ed52-7f1c-44f2-901d-87b0b9c3c235_2593x2261.png 1456w" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="1456" /></picture></a></figure></div><h3 style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: var(--font_family_headings, var(--font_family_headings_preset, "SF Compact Display", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol")); font-size: 1.375em; font-weight: var(--font_weight_headings_preset, bold); line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0px 0.625em;">Bottom Line</h3><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">What do all these things have in common with what we think of as creative? Same as creating a painting, writing a book, composing a song, -- the thing exists outside of your head.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Being creative means finding as many ways as possible to get the problem out of your head and into a shared space. Iteration will help refine ideas, letting your system 2 take over as you sleep. As you share, you will be challenged and inspired to tweak it, adjust it, refine or go off onto a new tangent.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Creativity doesn’t happen in a vacuum. We all build off the experiences of others.</p><h3 style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: var(--font_family_headings, var(--font_family_headings_preset, "SF Compact Display", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol")); font-size: 1.375em; font-weight: var(--font_weight_headings_preset, bold); line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0px 0.625em;"></h3><div class="captioned-image-container" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; text-align: center;"><figure style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; display: inline-block; margin: 0px auto; width: 728px;"><a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0b8c45fc-46cb-4b01-84df-c80751f449b1_2981x2401.png" rel="nofollow" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; align-items: center; border: 0px; color: #1a1a1a; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; width: auto;" target="_blank"><picture style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><source sizes="100vw" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0b8c45fc-46cb-4b01-84df-c80751f449b1_2981x2401.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0b8c45fc-46cb-4b01-84df-c80751f449b1_2981x2401.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0b8c45fc-46cb-4b01-84df-c80751f449b1_2981x2401.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0b8c45fc-46cb-4b01-84df-c80751f449b1_2981x2401.png 1456w" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;" type="image/webp"></source><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0b8c45fc-46cb-4b01-84df-c80751f449b1_2981x2401.png","fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1173,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":3299427,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null}" height="1173" sizes="100vw" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0b8c45fc-46cb-4b01-84df-c80751f449b1_2981x2401.png" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0b8c45fc-46cb-4b01-84df-c80751f449b1_2981x2401.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0b8c45fc-46cb-4b01-84df-c80751f449b1_2981x2401.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0b8c45fc-46cb-4b01-84df-c80751f449b1_2981x2401.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0b8c45fc-46cb-4b01-84df-c80751f449b1_2981x2401.png 1456w" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="1456" /></picture></a></figure></div><h3 style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: var(--font_family_headings, var(--font_family_headings_preset, "SF Compact Display", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol")); font-size: 1.375em; font-weight: var(--font_weight_headings_preset, bold); line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0px 0.625em;">When?</h3><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Don’t wait for inspiration. As Elvis says, work at what you do, and look for “moments of inspiration that visit you unexpectedly.” You can create more of these moments by practicing creativity with your team.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Make a checklist of goals for creativity. Practice being creative with various <em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">kata</em>. Discuss with your team or colleagues how to start stretching your creative muscles today. As a personal goal, consider pitching an idea to a conference or a local meetup.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Remember: The key to creativity is getting it out of your head and into a shared space. Then you can quickly iterate on that idea with others to go places you would not have thought of by yourself.</p>Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09666661574424894941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9858660.post-9585916628497094052022-05-18T09:31:00.002-07:002022-05-18T09:34:13.535-07:00Becoming a More Creative Engineer - Part 1<p> <em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px;">Crossword Clue: What is something no two people can be? (4 letters)</em></p><h3 style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: var(--font_family_headings, var(--font_family_headings_preset, "SF Compact Display", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol")); font-size: 1.375em; font-weight: var(--font_weight_headings_preset, bold); line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0px 0.625em;">Introduction</h3><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Recently, I gave a lightning talk about creativity for a software conference.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">I wanted to relay ideas for incorporating creativity into the workplace with these goals</p><ul style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Use a common vocabulary between tech and business </p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Engage my audience so they're motivated </p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Keep it simple. Like you, I have lots of other things vying for my attention and efforts.</p></li></ul><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Many lightning talks are a few slides on a PowerPoint presentation. I don't like making PowerPoint presentations. They feel constricted and unnatural. I'd much rather write a paragraph of text, present a graph or provide a holistic graphic. Unfortunately, once I start writing, I tend to fill in every detail. Presenting a paragraph is long and boring, and the talk was supposed to be 10 minutes long.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">I took some inspiration from part of the <a href="https://agilemanifesto.org/" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #1a1a1a;">Agile Manifesto</a>:</p><blockquote style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border-left: 4px solid var(--background_pop); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; margin: 1em 0px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1em;"><em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">"We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value."</em></p></blockquote><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">I wanted to incorporate some <a href="https://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #1a1a1a;">principles</a> from Manifesto into both the subject and the presentation method:</p><blockquote style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border-left: 4px solid var(--background_pop); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; margin: 1em 0px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1em;"><em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.</em></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1em;"><em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done.</em></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1em;"><em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential.</em></p></blockquote><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">How to discover a better way of presenting, while engaging people on common grounds and keeping it simple? Well, I often take <a href="https://rohdesign.com/sketchnotes/" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #1a1a1a;">sketchnotes</a> at talks, and my presentation is about creativity. Taking a chance to eat my own dogfood and turn this one on its head, I decided to talk around images of my sketchnotes. The following are the sketchnotes and relevant comments about the notes.</p><div class="captioned-image-container" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; text-align: center;"><figure style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; 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font-size: 1.375em; font-weight: var(--font_weight_headings_preset, bold); line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0px 0.625em;">Why?</h3><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Why do <em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; 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There are several reasons. First, many things in engineering can be automated. But automation is not usually on the creative side, it leans more toward checking the analytical side. Eventually, the machines will beat you at automation. Being more creative helps you beat the machines in what counts: your ability to present the human side of engineering.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">And second, creativity is necessary to improve the workplace in these ways.</p><ul style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; 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--tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Heightened engagement</p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Creative problem solving</p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Adding value to the business</p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Making work fun </p></li></ul><h3 style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); 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font-size: 1.375em; font-weight: var(--font_weight_headings_preset, bold); line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0px 0.625em;">What?</h3><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">What do I mean by creative? When we think of creative people, we think artists, writers, poets, directors, actors, musicians.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">I don't mean </p><ul style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">painting pictures</p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">telling stories</p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">directing imaginary friends</p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">arranging collages</p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">banging things together to make music</p></li></ul><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; 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font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">I do mean</p><ul style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">painting pictures</p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">telling stories</p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">having (imaginary) friends</p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">making collages </p></li><li style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; margin: 7.5px 0px 7.5px 15px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">banging things together</p></li></ul><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"></p><h3 style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: var(--font_family_headings, var(--font_family_headings_preset, "SF Compact Display", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol")); font-size: 1.375em; font-weight: var(--font_weight_headings_preset, bold); line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0px 0.625em;">Who?</h3><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Everyone can be creative. <em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">You</em> can work at creativity. Here’s <a href="https://freakonomics.com/podcast/extra-elvis-costello-full-interview/" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #1a1a1a;">Elvis Costello</a> on his own creative inspirations:</p><blockquote style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border-left: 4px solid var(--background_pop); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; margin: 1em 0px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1em;"><em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">“I don’t really think in terms of definition like a name tag, but if you actually asked me the difference, I say I was a worker of a kind. I work at what I do. And then there might be moments of inspiration that visit you unexpectedly.”</em></p></blockquote><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Sometimes, the problem does not lie in coming up with ideas, but stopping too early when you only have a few solutions. Only when all the possible solutions are exhausted can we find the best answers. Part 2 of the article covers how to use creative thinking to generate more ideas.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Crossword clue answer: TRIO</em></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px;">Are you inspired to be more creative yet? Read <a href="http://mxmossman.blogspot.com/2022/05/becoming-more-creative-engineer-part-2.html">Part 2</a>.</p>Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09666661574424894941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9858660.post-40419164694958414562021-01-01T17:00:00.003-08:002021-01-01T17:01:02.204-08:00Insta-Pot Rice & Beans with "Moss" sauce<h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here's a recipe that recreates the the taste of Portland's Macheesmo Mouse healthy Mexican food.</span></h4><h4 style="text-align: left;">Boss Sauce</h4><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>10-12 ancho peppers</li><li>1 cup dark brown sugar</li><li>12oz (1 can) orange juice concentrate</li><li>1/2 cup (low sodium) soy sauce</li><li>1 Tbsp ground cumin</li><li>1.5 cups water</li></ul><p></p><p>Cook on high in Insta-pot for 8 min. Natural release for 10 min then quick release .</p><p>After cooking, add 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar. Wait for it to cool, then liquify in blender</p><p>Strain before using. I store it in a quart Mason jar. Stays refrigerated for up to a month.</p><h4 style="text-align: left;">About peppers</h4><p>Ancho peppers are dried poblano peppers that are deep dark red or maroon in color. Anchos (ancho means wide in Spanish) are mild to moderately hot. You can substitute Mulato, Pasilla, California or Dried New Mexico chile peppers.</p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Black Bean spices</h4><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>1 Tbsp dried onions</li><li>1 Tbsp salt</li><li>1 Tbsp chili powder</li><li>1 Tbsp Oregano (optional for "cuban style")</li><li>1 Tbsp canola oil (optional)</li><li>2 cups dried beans</li><li>5 cups water</li></ul><p></p><p>Cook on high in Insta-pot for 30 min. Natural release for 10 min then quick release </p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Rice Spices</h4><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>1 Tbsp cumin</li><li>1/2 Tbsp garlic power or 2 cloves fresh garlic</li><li>1/4 tsp cayenne </li><li>1 cup brown rice </li><li>1 cup water</li></ul><p></p><p>Cook on high in Insta-pot for 30 min & quick release</p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Time-saving Tip</h4><p>You can cook the bean and rice at the same time. Start the beans in the Insta-pot and then use a rack to suspend a glass bowl for the rice. Use the longer cooking time of the beans.</p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Serving Suggestions</h4><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Make a beans & rice bowl, topped with sour cream, avocados and salsa. Drizzle with sauce.</li><li>Make a burrito. The sauce goes great great with beans & rice. Add Monterey Jack cheese and hot sauce.</li><li>Use the sauce to baste roast chicken and serve on top of the beans & rice.</li></ul></div><div><br /></div>Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09666661574424894941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9858660.post-20495058838134524742020-07-20T12:32:00.000-07:002020-07-20T12:32:11.496-07:00Sourdough Pancakes with Oregon Wild Huckleberries<h4 style="text-align: left;">Grandma's Secret Recipe: Sourdough</h4><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEzzY9bX5EhxeeISFUU3qev07_VDh8XH8t-XHdIEiorSP6lqelRwz37Vt_rKd11KxEGW_86WfPLROWDjqJ1OrmzUSoncRrJHsai73IwaXmD5W3O2wpaLeeb9-PSlBZ2_EC6ELZ/s3238/IMG_20200720_092150_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Blueberry Pancakes" border="0" data-original-height="3238" data-original-width="3238" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEzzY9bX5EhxeeISFUU3qev07_VDh8XH8t-XHdIEiorSP6lqelRwz37Vt_rKd11KxEGW_86WfPLROWDjqJ1OrmzUSoncRrJHsai73IwaXmD5W3O2wpaLeeb9-PSlBZ2_EC6ELZ/w320-h320/IMG_20200720_092150_2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>For years my grandmother Monica would make sourdough
pancakes with blueberries or, more often, with <a href="https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/blueberries_and_huckleberries/#.XxXQpShKiUk" target="_blank">wild Oregon huckleberries</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She had a berry bush in the yard in Coos Bay and
we grandkids would get up early and pick (and eat) some berries for the
pancakes. What I didn’t realize until I was an adult was that she had prepared
for the pancakes the night ahead.<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A couple years after college I was visiting my grandmother when
she gave me some of her sourdough starter and the recipe for her pancakes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The night before she removed a jar of started
from the refrigerator and added that to a bowl with 1 cup of milk and 1 cup of
flour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the morning she saved 1 cup of
starter in her jar and then used the rest to make the pancakes.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">She had received her sourdough starter from a family friend
who had had it going since the early 1960s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I had just bought a house and the starter went into the refrigerator in
the new place as a housewarming gift. I kept the starter going for years after
that and was even able to return some of it her on the occasion when she forgot
to save out a cup after making pancakes. Unfortunately, in the 2000s our
refrigerator died one hot summer and the starter turned blackish gray. I should
have fed it but instead ended up tossing it (along with most of the contents of
the fridge).<o:p></o:p></p>
<h4 style="text-align: left;">Restarting the Starter</h4><p class="MsoNormal">A couple weeks ago my friend Molly gave me some of her sourdough
starter. She’s a big fan of the King Arthur’s Flour website for <a href="https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/learn/guides/sourdough" target="_blank">sourdoughbaking tips</a> and had been posting her recent baking adventures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I figured it was time to get back into baking
with sourdough. Also I had a secret goal: I had recently picked a lot of fresh
blueberries and wanted to make my grandmother’s sourdough pancakes.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">When I got the starter from Molly, however, I had a slightly
embarrassing question. I had read an article in the Oregonian about what to do
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/voraciously/wp/2020/05/22/heres-how-to-use-your-sourdough-discard-in-everyday-baking/" target="_blank">with your sourdough discard</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of my
recipes came from my grandmother and she never mentioned anything about a
discard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I had to admit, aside from the
alcohol that forms on the top of the starter, I had never discarded anything.
What is the discard? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Molly was nice enough to explain that most recipes called
for creating large amount of starter, and then to use only a portion of that in
the baking and to discard the rest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
suddenly clicked for me: My grandmother’s sourdough pancake recipe <u>was</u>
the discard recipe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She used the
sourdough for flavoring and not so much for a rise.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h4 style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB3O5Vr5TWEG_BeJMZ-rIXmb6PxlGPL41s3JnuwMR42h6gChLFJx9rRjSAXGxxNO7AnJ76eVna7eemRfO70d8gqgSIyTJUhhsJek8IY7Xta1QM_YlKt8BXAKwaOhAGB31T2ZAz/s3113/IMG_20200720_092102_6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3113" data-original-width="3113" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB3O5Vr5TWEG_BeJMZ-rIXmb6PxlGPL41s3JnuwMR42h6gChLFJx9rRjSAXGxxNO7AnJ76eVna7eemRfO70d8gqgSIyTJUhhsJek8IY7Xta1QM_YlKt8BXAKwaOhAGB31T2ZAz/w200-h200/IMG_20200720_092102_6.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Handling Sourdough</h4><p class="MsoNormal">My grandmother had some special rules for sourdough that I’m
not sure about:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Use milk for the starter. I’ve done it both
ways, with milk and with water. Both ways work.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Don’t let the starter touch metal. Use porcelain
or glass bowls, use a wooden spoon for mixing and put a piece of Saran Wrap
under between the metal lid and the glass jar for storing the starter.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks to Molly for the insight and to my grandmother Monica
for all the times she served up pancakes. Here’s my grandmother’s recipe for
sourdough pancakes based on the discard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Make sure you add lots of fresh blueberries or, if you’re lucky enough,
Oregon wild huckleberries.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">Recipe for Sourdough Pancakes (with berries)</h3><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The night before, put the starter into a porcelain bowl with
1 cup of flour and 1 cup of milk. Stir to mix.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the morning be sure to remove save 1 cup of starter back
into the refrigerator.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To the rest add:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->1 egg</li><li><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->2 tablespoons of neutral oil like canola</li><li><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->2 tablespoons of sugar</li><li><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->1 teaspoon of baking soda</li><li><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->1 teaspoon of salt (can be less)</li></ul><!--[if !supportLists]--><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TomHyX2pCyE/XxXwwSdRjsI/AAAAAAABO3g/XvtaNBFuXwcHy43K42NyFcBERnUD5ifBACPcBGAsYHg/s2986/IMG_20200720_092717_6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2986" data-original-width="2986" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TomHyX2pCyE/XxXwwSdRjsI/AAAAAAABO3g/XvtaNBFuXwcHy43K42NyFcBERnUD5ifBACPcBGAsYHg/w200-h200/IMG_20200720_092717_6.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Mix well and then cook on the griddle over medium-high
heat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Add berries before flipping the
pancakes. Serve immediately with butter and syrup.<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This recipe makes about 8 pancakes. If you want to make
more, just double everything in the recipe, including the flour and milk in the
overnight bowl.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just remember to <u>always</u>
save 1 cup of starter before adding eggs, etc.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMvw6Prt9B6Fe72dR0fcHWtJAc-xmCVsgMFdvnUGC7D4L6LW3fshDaPOSVlx0m3k06qfDfoyP6eHQ-FURkhB3B3P-5lzmOqmlPFkp-XqaV0BsJ7KCX0CBwGrRQklR_xHYffmg1/s4598/IMG_20200720_101048_7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2784" data-original-width="4598" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMvw6Prt9B6Fe72dR0fcHWtJAc-xmCVsgMFdvnUGC7D4L6LW3fshDaPOSVlx0m3k06qfDfoyP6eHQ-FURkhB3B3P-5lzmOqmlPFkp-XqaV0BsJ7KCX0CBwGrRQklR_xHYffmg1/s320/IMG_20200720_101048_7.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><br />Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09666661574424894941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9858660.post-31220245303328566362020-05-15T10:54:00.003-07:002020-05-15T11:37:53.524-07:00Retrospective on the Covid-19 Coronavirus outbreak, March 2020We are now heading toward the back of the curve for the COVID-19 outbreak. These are my notes thinking about how to deal with the virus based on what I've read.<br />
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We know that without preventions, the R0 of COVID-19 is about 3. Unchecked, this will lead to exponential infection. More on <a href="https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/when-will-it-be-over-an-introduction-to-viral-reproduction-numbers-r0-and-re/" target="_blank">R0 here</a>.<br />
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Models say that 65%+ of a population need be infected before herd immunity starts to work. With a mortality rate of about 1%, this means a significant number of deaths before herd immunity starts to work.<br />
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There is no vaccination and because this is a novel virus, no one has had the disease before and no one has past immunity. This means there’s no medical way to control the spread of the disease. So, prevention and containment are the best tools we have.<br />
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<h3>
Prevention</h3>
Using both hygiene and physical barriers can reduce the R0 from 3 to about .6. At this rate the infection will be reduced to a manageable level.<br />
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<h4>
Hygiene protocols</h4>
<ul>
<li>Wash hands</li>
<li>Use sanitizer when soap not available</li>
<li>Cover your cough (mask is best)</li>
<li>Clean heavy-touch surfaces</li>
</ul>
<h4>
Physical barriers</h4>
<ul>
<li>Quarantine</li>
<li>Social distance - 6 to 10 ft</li>
<li>Wear masks</li>
<li>Use plastic barriers</li>
<li>Avoid prolonged exposure to large groups (10+) in closed areas</li>
</ul>
<h3>
Containment</h3>
A note on Political barriers - such as borders of states or countries. These are <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/1/23/21078325/wuhan-china-coronavirus-travel-ban" target="_blank">not effective methods to prevention</a> and should not be implemented. If one person can cross the border, then the infection can cross the border.<br />
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It's a pandemic - which means the infection has spread throughtout the world. Containment can happen only <i>after</i> a reduction in the number of active cases. So, we need these precautions as ongoing activities until there is a vaccine for COVID-19:<br />
<br />
<ul>
<li>Check for symptoms (fever + cough) in people who may have been exposed</li>
<li>Test randomly and often in mobile populations</li>
<li>Implement contact tracing. Ban large gatherings since these make contact tracing impossible.</li>
<li>Continue quarantine for more vulnerable individuals</li>
<li>Apply highest cost-benefit social distancing measures</li>
<li>Explore immunity after recovery: serologic testing for antibodies </li>
</ul>
This author describes these activities as "<a href="https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-the-dance-be9337092b56" target="_blank">The Dance</a>." During the dance there will be a number of challenges. Here are the challenges I see:<br />
<br />
<h4>
Health Challenges</h4>
<ul>
<li>Invisible carriers: Asymptomatic carriers (25%?) & pre-symptomatic carriers</li>
<li>Long incubation period: 4-14 days</li>
<li>We live in a highly mobile world that affords lots of opportunity for the virus.</li>
</ul>
<h4>
Information Challenges</h4>
<ul>
<li>Uncertainty - this is a new situation so a lot is unknown.</li>
<li>Lack of studies</li>
<li>Hard to compare with existing viruses (eg: SARS)</li>
<li>Misinformation</li>
</ul>
<h4>
Challenges specific to the United States</h4>
<ul>
<li>Healthcare tied to employment</li>
<li>Years of erosion in the social support nets</li>
<li>Political climate</li>
<ul>
<li>Distrust in government</li>
<li>Poor leadership at the national level</li>
<li>Politicians using the pandemic to their political objectives</li>
</ul>
<li>Without social safety nets, the pandemic turns into a health vs economy situation, which is wrong.</li>
<li>Geographic mobility. It's possible to travel across the US without any checkpoints or borders. Also, except for Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico and some other territories, not a lot of pinch points in terms of physical location</li>
</ul>
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<br />Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09666661574424894941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9858660.post-18873560800742392172018-11-09T14:25:00.005-08:002018-11-09T14:28:49.868-08:00Discovering Value Stream Mapping in AgileI know very little about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_stream_mapping" target="_blank">value stream mapping</a>. It seemed like a way to quantify improvements in the biz process. Since this month's topic was Value Stream Mapping, I decided to attend <a href="https://agilepdx.org/" target="_blank">AgilePDX</a>'s <a href="https://www.meetup.com/AgilePDX-User-Group-Portland-Metro/events/255678927/" target="_blank">Virtual pub lunch</a> to learn more.<br />
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The topic was described as:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Value Stream Mapping: this Toyota technique is often associated with lean manufacturing - and it can be a powerful tool applied to agile software development processes: Visualizing your workflow and inspecting it for "waste" to delivery more value fluently. But there are many questions: what is the definition of waste (or value)? When is this technique best applied? Join us to talk about your experience mapping value, and hear how others have worked with this process to what effect.</blockquote>
Here are my questions with some answers gleaned during the lunch.<br />
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<b>Q: </b>Can I get an explanation of "Why use value mapping?" that isn't a circular definition? (ie: doesn't use the word "value" or "waste"). What's a practical example?<br />
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<b>A: </b>It's good for seeing the flow of business.<br />
For example, if you or your team don't deliver then who's affected by this?<br />
It helps you fully understand who _your_ customer is in the development process.<br />
eg: If you're creating an accounting invoice... how to know who will use this?<br />
It can also expose risk: Finding where the "magic occurs" part of the process is a good way to expose risky areas.<br />
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<b>Case study:</b> A company wanted to create an invoice.<br />
Normally it took them 3 weeks to generate an invoice.<br />
Neal used value stream mapping to look at the information flow.<br />
There was a lot of double entry, incorrect information.<br />
They realized they needed to incorporate their CRM system into the accounting system.<br />
This helped reduce double entry work and increased accuracy.<br />
They also reduced their invoice time from 3 weeks to 1 week.<br />
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<b>Q:</b> Is this only for large companies?<br />
<b>A:</b> Good for small to medium groups as well. It's a way for employees to see how they add value.<br />
It's also good to expose "mysteries" in the value chain.<br />
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<b>Q: </b>Is value mapping more of an art or a science?<br />
<b>A:</b> Some art to it. It's not a black & white answer...<br />
The more experience with it the more it's a science.<br />
You can use PDCA to quantify the results -- while testing the changes.<br />
In the beginning, you might not know the costs of development time and cycle times.<br />
Once you start learning that, you can start doing metric-based learning experiments.<br />
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<b>A: </b>Resource to results ratio = key metric.<br />
If you can't identify resource to results ratio then you'll need to implement that.<br />
An example of a resource to results ratio is a baseball player's ERA. It shows the value of an individual's contribution to the team. (Can also show the value of a team to a company).<br />
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<b>Q: </b>What if you don't know how to quantify the value?<br />
<b>A: </b>If it's difficult to see the value stream, then maybe your process needs to be re-evaluated<br />
Don't worry about trying to hard to quantify the value. This method is also good for exposing problems... showing what don't you know, what is a mess.<br />
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<b>Q: </b>What are some stumbling blocks?<br />
<b>A:</b> It's hard to get people to agree on the value of using value stream mapping.<br />
Try it out and see how it's useful.<br />
One person mentioned a decision that could save 3 cents on the product, but will cost 50 cents on support. The big picture of the map showed how the upstream decision caused problems & costs downstream.<br />
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<b>A:</b> Putting a dollar amount to processes was a stumbling block.<br />
Steven found that this was irrelevant. Mapping the process helped identify where things were taking too long -- and this was easily translated to "time is money."<br />
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<b>A:</b> Are you providing value to the downstream, or are you causing increased costs?<br />
Look at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDCA" target="_blank">PDCA cycle (Plan Do Check Act) </a>and test it out.<br />
Is your value added? If not, then roll it back.<br />
For example, the value chain can show you the cost of your hand offs.<br />
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<b>Q:</b> What about using value stream mapping to assess the value of software testing?<br />
<b>A:</b> This is simpler if you have historical data (already released software with defects).<br />
Measure the cost of escaped defects (support, code fixes, customer satisfaction, brand reputation)<br />
Then you can use this to support value of testing.<br />
Alternatively, you can use <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Promoter" target="_blank">Net Promoter score </a>to measure this.<br />
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<b>Q: </b>Can you recommend any good introductory books?<br />
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<li><a href="https://amzn.to/2DtYoL2" target="_blank">Value Proposition Design</a> by Alex Osterwalder</li>
<li><a href="https://amzn.to/2PRrutF" target="_blank">Value Stream Mapping </a>by Karen Martin and Mike Osterling.</li>
<li><a href="https://amzn.to/2DvxmD1" target="_blank">The New Lean Toolbox</a> by John Bicheno</li>
<li><a href="https://amzn.to/2DblxBc" target="_blank">Learning to See: Value Stream Mapping to Add Value and Eliminate MUDA</a> by Mike Rother and John Shook</li>
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Related links:<br />
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<li><a href="http://www.sotechadvisors.com/blog/when-is-value-stream-mapping-the-right-tool-for-software-development/" target="_blank">When Is Value Stream Mapping The Right Tool For Software Development?</a> by Adam Light </li>
<li>iSixSigma <a href="https://www.isixsigma.com/dictionary/value-stream-mapping/" target="_blank">description of Value Stream Mapping</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.scaledagileframework.com/value-streams/" target="_blank">SAFe and Value Streams</a> - "A value stream is a long-lived series of steps used to deliver value, from concept or customer order to delivery of a tangible result for the customer."</li>
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Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09666661574424894941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9858660.post-11937171551688570282018-06-21T08:54:00.000-07:002018-06-22T12:12:09.853-07:00Testing, Agile and Devops: How does it all jive?<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Devops is slightly
nebulous phrase because it's a mix of technologies, methods and roles. In short, it means that operations works
tightly with development during the development cycle and beyond. Think
of it as “shifting right” in the same way that many</span><a href="https://youtu.be/KCPFYpveESw?t=97" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"> people talk about shifting quality left </a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">in the development process.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Containers, like <a href="https://www.docker.com/" target="_blank">Docker</a> or <a href="https://kubernetes.io/" target="_blank">Kubernetes</a> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Automation frameworks like
<a href="https://jenkins.io/" target="_blank">Jenkins</a> and <a href="https://travis-ci.org/" target="_blank">Travis CI</a>, </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Continuous integration models (again, Travis CI).</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">While there are many parts to Devops methods, the most interesting are:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p> </o:p><span style="background-color: transparent;">Using automated
regression tests for both staging and live environments,<a href="https://www.stickyminds.com/article/leverage-containers-create-simulated-test-environments-demand" target="_blank"> often staging the tests within a container.</a> This helps shift QA to the right while reducing
risks.</span></span></li>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">With containers you
can treat configuration like code -- storing the configuration as scripts in a
revision control system.<span style="color: #222222; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; text-indent: -0.25in;">So, the
container configuration can be static and tracked.</span><span style="color: #222222; text-indent: -0.25in;"> This enhances security as well as making the
configuration more transparent.</span></span></li>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://mxmossman.blogspot.com/2015/11/pnsqc-2015-day-1.html" target="_blank">Netflix’s idea of a Chaos monkey</a> - introducing problems into production systems to test their resilience.</span></li>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">The Devops role, is
someone who specializes in these technologies. Also essential is someone who
can work with the team and help interface with QA, security, development,
operations. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">T</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; text-indent: -0.25in;">he ultimate idea of Devops is embedding someone representing operations in the development team.</span></div>
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how does it all come together?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222;">Agile methods mean that you have potentially
deployable code at the end of a sprint. With Devops that can become actually
deployable. But, devops also helps make deploying to production less scary:<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The deployment is automated.</span></li>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">SDETs have written automated regression tests to check the existing system.</span></li>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Containers allow you to run multiple test deploys in parallel, testing multiple configurations.</span></li>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Security configuration can be built in to the container scripts.</span></li>
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deployment and configuration are all code, they can be revised, tested and run
automatically often. This allows QA to
focus during a sprint on the new functions, including end-to-end and user
experience.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br />Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09666661574424894941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9858660.post-9926668370560484992018-03-12T10:56:00.000-07:002018-03-12T10:56:42.192-07:00Product Camp Portland 2018Over the weekend I had the opportunity to attend <a href="http://productcamppdx.org/" target="_blank">Product Camp Portland</a>. My motivation was that usually I'm on the technical side of projects. Product Camp was a chance for me to explore and hear how people who work with the customer-side of development solve problems and explore possibilities.<br />
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Product Camp is an Open Space conference, or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference" target="_blank">un-conference</a>, similar to <a href="http://mxmossman.blogspot.com/2015/11/agile-open-northwest-2015.html" target="_blank">Agile Open Northwest</a>. This means that attendees pitch potential sessions and everyone votes on the topics they want to attend.<br />
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The pitch process took about half an hour and it was interesting how interactive even that process was. Teresa Torres was the first woman in the line-up. She remarked how the gender ratio was biased 5:1 towards men. From her encouragement, more women proposed sessions and the end result for the conference was closer to 50/50. It was an immediate and inspiring outcome.<br />
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There were slots for 16 sessions in all. I was only able to attend four, but I took sketchnotes of the sessions I attended. It's a fun way for me to quickly internalize the topics and I like to share with attendees <a href="https://twitter.com/mxmoss" target="_blank">on twitter.</a> It's also a good way to meet people.<br />
Here are my notes.<br />
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Arya from Cambia told her story how she became a product owner, and then discussed the key points for creating a compelling story that engages customers and colleagues.</div>
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Dave Flotree covered the key points of how to gather user-validated design data through interviews. He also discussed how to use Affinity Diagrams to create a holistic picture of your users' needs.</div>
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Overall, Product Camp Portland was conference which managed to stay cozy despite having over 350 attendees. I look forward to attending again.<br />
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FYI, here's Mike Rohde's "The Sketchnote Handbook" which has a lot of good ideas and inspiration about using drawing to capture the ideas during meetings and conferences.<br />
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<br />Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09666661574424894941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9858660.post-37041350309779514762017-10-20T12:51:00.000-07:002017-10-20T12:51:33.069-07:00Pacific NW Software Quality Conference (PNSQC) 2017<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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In "<a href="https://www.pnsqc.org/power-doubt-becoming-software-skeptic/" target="_blank">The Power of Doubt,</a>" Zeger Van Hese acknowledges that "I don't know" may be the hardest phrase for any tech team to admit, but at the beginning of any project it is the most honest answer. He discussed how to use skepticism and the scientific method to explore assumptions and advance incrementally without bias.</div>
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Clyneice Chaney's presentation "<a href="https://www.pnsqc.org/trimming-qa-effort-maintaining-quality/" target="_blank">Trimming Down your QA Effort While Maintaining Quality</a>" covered ways for companies to apply Lean manufacturing principles to QA and development. She looked at techniques for finding waste and methods for applying Lean solutions.<br />
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Taking a cue from Stephen Covey, Phil Lew examined the "Seven Habits of Highly Effective Agile." His message is that agile is a long-term habit, and building an agile mindset takes time and should be deliberate.<br />
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In Lee Copeland's talk he applied ideas from Eric Ries' "<a href="http://mxmossman.blogspot.com/2016/09/book-review-lean-startup-by-eric-ries.html" target="_blank">The Lean Startup</a>" to the test environment. "<a href="https://www.pnsqc.org/lean-startup-method-value-testers/" target="_blank">The Lean Startup Method and Its Value for Testers</a>" related the core ideas of a the book: customer development, the build-measure cycle, the MVP, validated learning and "1 metric" to the testing process.<br />
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Katy Sherman started her keynote with a some early morning dancing and then a flashlight poll to ask "<a href="https://www.pnsqc.org/who-owns-quality-agile/" target="_blank">Who Owns Quality In Agile?</a>" Then she got into the tough questions: after the first success of an agile transformation, how to integrate Quality into the full development lifecycle?<br />
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A definition of ecology is "the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings." In his talk "<a href="https://www.pnsqc.org/product-ecology-for-the-elicitation-of-requirements/" target="_blank">Product Ecology for the Elicitation of Requirements,</a>" Ruud Cox <a href="https://ruudcox.wordpress.com/2013/10/25/an-example-of-a-product-ecology-for-testers/" target="_blank">explained his method</a> for exploring the relationships between the system under development and the people and environment where it will be used. By using various heuristics he maps the ecology of the stakeholders and other ecosystems such as value chains, supply chains, and user scenarios. He talked about using this method on projects ranging from medical devices to parking lot streetlights.<br />
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I didn't get a chance to sketchnote it, but Berglind Bergsdóttir's presentation on "<a href="https://www.pnsqc.org/feeling-like-fake-impostor-syndrome/" target="_blank">Feeling Like a Fake – The Impostor Syndrome</a>" was inspiring and endearing. Her presentation was both vulnerable and empowering at the same time.<br />
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Her team's project was to achieve alignment among all the Scrum teams in the company. She presented the case study and lessons learned along the way.</div>
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In "<a href="https://www.pnsqc.org/scalable-humane-code-review/" target="_blank">Scalable, Humane Code Review</a>" Ian Dees pointed out a paradox: sometimes we can be more humane by automating the parts of the process that raise conflict. As he mentions, "let the robot be the enforcer."<br />
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Of all the talks, I was most looking forward to hearing from Rich Sheridan of Menlo Innovations and the author of "Joy, Inc." Earlier this year I had read his book as part of an <a href="https://www.meetup.com/AgilePDX-User-Group-Portland-Metro/events/239444749/" target="_blank">Agile book club</a>, and Menlo sounded like an ideal workplace. Later that day I had the opportunity to have dinner with Rich and some other PNSQC attendees, and he was as gracious and interesting as his writer's voice is in the book. My notes on his closing keynote "<a href="https://www.pnsqc.org/build-workplace-people-love-just-add-joy/" target="_blank">Build A Workplace People Love – Just Add Joy</a>" are very sparse -- mostly because he covers the details much better in his book, but there were a few points I wanted to pull out for posterity.</div>
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I had the good opportunity to speak at and attend TechWell's Better Software West in Las Vegas in June, 2017. I helped present a <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2017/05/prweb14364191.htm" target="_blank">workshop on Agile Risk Management</a>, which was a great experience, but I also sketched the talks I was able to attend. Here are some of the highlights. Click on the images to see larger versions.</div>
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Neal Ford of Thoughtworks gave a presentation called "Modern Evolutionary Software Architecture." It is based on his new book "Building Evolutionary Architectures."<br />
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David <a href="https://twitter.com/dlitvakb" target="_blank">Litvak </a>gave a wonderful talk called "<a href="https://www.contentful.com/blog/2017/06/26/from-monoliths-to-services/" target="_blank">From Monoliths to Services</a>" about how he used microservice architecture to reduce the system's technical debt.<br />
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Agile coaches <a href="https://twitter.com/bobgalen" target="_blank">Bob Galen</a> and Josh Anderson took coaching to the next level by comparing "Football + Agile: Like Peanut Butter & Jelly?". This was a fun talk, but it also gave some real insights into how coaching can improve the team.<br />
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Lisa <a href="https://twitter.com/lcalkins" target="_blank">Calkins </a>talked about project alignment in her presentation "<a href="https://www.slideshare.net/TechWellPresentations/is-your-project-doomed-from-the-start" target="_blank">Is Your Project Doomed at the Start?</a>" Her IDGEM method helps product owners and managers understand the real value of the system.<br />
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Ken Johnston of Microsoft gave a keynote on "<a href="https://www.slideshare.net/EuroSTARConference/big-data-the-magic-to-attain-new-heights" target="_blank">Big Data: The Magic to Attain New Heights</a>." He explained how Microsoft uses big data to assess everything from security and threat detection to a study on preventing SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome).<br />
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Ryan <a href="https://twitter.com/ryanripley" target="_blank">Ripley </a>of the Agile for Humans podcast gave a really interesting talk on "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eE7rtCQHI8" target="_blank">The No Estimates Movement</a>." I had previously heard Woody <a href="https://twitter.com/WoodyZuill" target="_blank">Zuill </a>talk about this, and Ryan's presentation made me eager to try this out. #noEstimates<br />
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Some of the most interesting and useful presentations were those that "accidentally" attended. "Agile Release Planning" by Sarah <a href="https://twitter.com/sarita1119" target="_blank">Harper </a> was one such talk. Within the hour I purchased a book she recommended, "Actionable Agile Metrics."<br />
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<br />Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09666661574424894941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9858660.post-69053890374755481182017-10-16T23:10:00.002-07:002017-10-16T23:10:45.497-07:00Pycon 2017<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
Here are some live sketchnotes from <a href="https://us.pycon.org/2017/about/" target="_blank">Pycon 2017 in Portland, Oregon</a>. </div>
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Pycon is a conference covering a variety of topics on the Python programming language. The conference travels around North America, spending two consecutive years in the host city. I missed the 2016 conference, but heeard good things so I wanted to attend while it was still in Portland (the <a href="https://us.pycon.org/2018/about/" target="_blank">2018 Pycon will be in Cleveland, Ohio</a>).</div>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)" target="_blank">Python </a>is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness" target="_blank">Turing complete</a> programming language which can be used for any software project, but because it has a lot of mathematics libraries it is frequently used by scientific communities for numerical data processing and manipulation. As an open-source language, it has also a lot of extensions which make it useful as a daily cross-platform utility language. Because of this utility, I expected the talks to span a wide range of topics. I was not disappointed.</div>
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Brendan McCollam covered a variety of different web authentication methods: OAuth, OAuth2, OpenID, OpenIDConnect, SAML, and Facebook Connect and the related options with his talk "<a href="https://us.pycon.org/2017/schedule/presentation/276/" target="_blank">Web identity: OAuth2 and OpenIDConnect</a>."</div>
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I was truly moved and inspired by Susan Tan's "<a href="https://us.pycon.org/2017/schedule/presentation/430/" target="_blank">Rants and Ruminations From A Job Applicant After 100 CS Job Interviews in Silicon Valley</a>." As she says "In late August 2016, I quit an uninspiring full-time software job and talked to 100 employers in the San Francisco Bay Area to find the best fit."<br />
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Andrew Baker presented "<a href="https://us.pycon.org/2017/schedule/presentation/779/" target="_blank">Five Ways to Deploy your Python Web App in 2017</a>." This included ngrok, Heroku, “serverless” with AWS Lambda, Google Compute Engine and Docker.<br />
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Moshe Zadka's talk was titled "<a href="https://us.pycon.org/2017/schedule/presentation/128/" target="_blank">Automate AWS With Python</a>" and covered how to automate AMI builds, building Cloud Formation Templates and automating S3 bucket management.</div>
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Deborah Hanus talked web-scraping with Python and Beautiful Soup in her presenation "<a href="https://us.pycon.org/2017/schedule/presentation/395/" target="_blank">Lights, camera, action! Scraping a great dataset to predict Oscar winners</a>."</div>
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Likewise, Sam Agnew of Twilio led the crowd in an amazing demo, using the FCEUX NES emulator to hack into the Legend of Zelda and hooking it up with Flask and Twilio so the crowd could control game play through texting in his talk "<a href="https://us.pycon.org/2017/schedule/presentation/732/" target="_blank">Hacking Classic Nintendo Games with Python</a>."<br />
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I didn't take sketchnotes on "<a href="https://us.pycon.org/2017/schedule/presentation/470/" target="_blank">Hacking Cars with Python</a>," but it was an especially interesting presentation. I never realized how much data is available in even 2010 cars. Eric Evenchick inspired me to buy an OBD2 Car Diagnostic Scanner and try it out.<br />
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In his presentation "<a href="https://us.pycon.org/2017/schedule/presentation/556/" target="_blank">Look mum no hands! From blinking LEDs to a bike speedometer with MicroPython</a>," Tim Head showed how to hack together a micro-controller in a wifi-enabled speedometer for your bike, using MicroPython.<br />
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<br />Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09666661574424894941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9858660.post-6665041090003571012017-10-15T23:32:00.001-07:002017-10-15T23:32:34.409-07:002017 Terroir Creative Writing Festival<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
These sketchnotes are from the 2017 Terroir Creative Writing Festival, held April 2017 at Chemeketa Community College, McMinnville. The one-day festival is a mix of talks by authors and poets, as well as some interactive writing workshops. The conference is organized by the Arts Alliance of Yamhill County, with the tagline "Our vision is to make Yamhill County a creative arts community."</div>
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Kathleen Dean Moore, Ph.D., was completely amazing. Her keynote emphasized the human impact on species extinction and then underlined how artists, writers and visionaries are needed to have the influence to preserve Earth's diversity. Moore is a philosopher, climate activist, and the author or co-editor of thirteen books including "Great Tide Rising" and "Piano Tide." <a href="http://www.riverwalking.com/">www.riverwalking.com</a></div>
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Andrea Stolowitz held a group reading of the play "<a href="http://www.samuelfrench.com/p/843/teeth-howe" target="_blank">Teeth</a>" and then led a writing exercise wherein we created a setting and populated it with characters and a backstory. <a href="http://www.andreastolowitz.com/">www.andreastolowitz.com</a><br />
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Author C. Morgan Kennedy, talked about world building and creating a context for your genre novel. Kennedy also writes The Melting Pot: Stories with Diversity & Multiculturalism column for Night Owl Reviews’ The Booklover e-magazine. <a href="http://www.cmorgankennedy.com/">www.cmorgankennedy.com</a><br />
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Daniel Wilson, author of "How to Survive a Robot Uprising," "Robopocalypse," and other books talked about his new novel "Clockwork Dynasty" and provided his unique take on writing science fiction.<br />
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I also caught the afternoon keynote by Oregonian columnist Steve Duin. He talked about the power of comics such as in Alison Bechdel's "Fun Home." He also listed some of the most amazing recent graphic novels:<br />
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Lefevre's "<a href="http://amzn.to/2xIbAEI" target="_blank">The Photographer</a>", a graphic documentary subtitled "Into War-torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders."<br />
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Mariko Tamaki "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/This-One-Summer-Mariko-Tamaki/dp/159643774X/ref=as_sl_pc_as_ss_li_til?tag=moss0e7-20&linkCode=w00&linkId=f9b39f6963115b4e27d87908cf8e785a&creativeASIN=159643774X" target="_blank">This One Summer</a>"<br />
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Royden Lepp's "<a href="http://amzn.to/2zs8kzt" target="_blank">Rust</a>."<br />
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The website for the annual festival is <a href="http://terroircreativewritingfestival.com/">terroircreativewritingfestival.com</a>. Or you can join their <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TerroirCreativeWritingFestival/" target="_blank">Facebook page</a> for more info.</div>
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Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09666661574424894941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9858660.post-70433975308537985322017-01-22T22:08:00.002-08:002017-01-22T22:09:09.686-08:00A Paper Prototyping Workshop<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Recently, I had a chance to sit in on a Paper Prototyping Workshop presented to a group of high school kids. Here's the workshop description:</div>
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I had two reasons for attending the workshop. A secondary goal was to see if I could get any tips for improving <a href="http://mxmossman.blogspot.com/2013/11/agile-project-management-tips-7.html" target="_blank">the way we use paper prototypes at work,</a> but my primary goal was to see how to conduct a full-day workshop. Previously, I had conducted one-hour exercises at work but I was about to help with a <a href="http://www.pnsqc.org/managing-uncertainty-risk-software-projects/" target="_blank">full-day workshop at PNSQC</a> in the fall of 2016, and I wanted to understand the arc of a multi-hour session. This blog post documents the workshop, and adds some observations about the paper prototyping process I plan to document the workshop, but also to make some observations about </div>
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The kids heard heard a short 15-minute lecture from a UX design expert, then spent the rest of the hour generating ideas for apps. The kids were asked to list sets of users (such as "gamers," "pet owners," or "elderly people"), various industries ("medicine," "entertainment") and technologies ("mobile," "VR," "IoT"). They wrote these ideas on sticky nodes and then combined the notes to create ideas for apps.</div>
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Often software systems are generically called "solutions" because they are built to solve a problem. Identifying and understanding the problem early is core to developing a good solution. The lecturer pointed out that to provide a good solution, the designer must understand the audience. He suggested the kids use empathy to put themselves into different viewpoints -- seeing from the point of view of the user. He also suggested that design concepts should be kept small, digestible -- easily understood. At this phase of design, don't try to invent new concepts.</div>
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Next, the kids listened to a talk about storytelling, then broke into small groups where they could agree on a set of ideas they wanted to work on. Storytelling and sharing ideas is a fairly simple process with a large benefits. First, you have a story to tell, and by telling the story it helps shape your ideas into fully-formed concepts that others can understand. Also, you can see how other react to those stories and whether there is a common concept that excites interest in the solution. Others on the team will have different viewpoints and may have suggestions that strengthen the story, or ideas that will push the story into a new realm. This storytelling phase is key to forming a complete vision of the solution.</div>
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Although it was fairly free-form, kids liked this portion of the workshop. The open-ended space allowed them to imagine and follow odd tangents. During their discussion, some of the stories evolved. But the limited time (1 hour) helped frame the session and to eventually focus them on a single solution for their groups.</div>
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Finally it was time to create the paper prototypes. The kids grabbed paper, crayons and markers, scissors and string to create the UI for their app prototypes. The adult coaches ranged around the room providing advice about standard UI components and suggestions for how to work as a team. The kids innovated in all sorts of ways: folding paper, gluing together "buttons" and literal drop-down pick lists.<br />
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This segment reminded me that a successful workshop needs to have all the materials on-hand and ready. If you're going to use sticky notes, make not to run out. Not everyone brings writing implements, so have plenty of pens and markers on hand. Try to predict the needs of the students in the workshop.<br />
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This session left lots of space, so the kids were free to take breaks or use the restrooms. Remember: breaks are important.<br />
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The final leg of the workshop was the rapid iteration session. Kids shared their "apps" with each other and the experts. Sometimes the workflows didn't work as expected, so they revised the prototypes and retested them. The key was to get a large set of tests and opinions in a small amount of time for relatively little investment. The kids were encouraged to discard solutions that did not work, or were potentially problematic. After this session the kids gathered to reflect on the day's work and share their thoughts and insights.<br />
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<li>Provide any supplies that might be needed. You don't want to interrupt the session to track down paper and pencils.</li>
<li>A full-day workshop can be intense and possibly fatiguing. Breaks and food help keep the energy going and keep everyone happy.</li>
<li>If possible, ask people to help document the workshop by tweeting or taking photos</li>
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Thanks to <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/gagechoat" target="_blank">Gage Choat </a>for allowing me to sit in and observe the workshop.<br />
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<br />Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09666661574424894941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9858660.post-9788078067573073692017-01-22T15:53:00.000-08:002017-01-22T17:50:41.816-08:00PNSQC 2016: Day 2Here are my sketchnotes for the second day of the <a href="http://www.pnsqc.org/archives/2016-conference/" target="_blank">Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference (PNSQC) 2016</a> held in Portland, Oregon in October. Click on an image to see the larger version.<br />
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For the opening keynote on the second day, Rex Black not only spoke about "<a href="http://www.pnsqc.org/stupid-metrics-tricks-and-how-to-avoid-them/" target="_blank">Stupid Metrics Tricks – and How to Avoid Them</a>" but decided to stage a live recreation of Dr. Edward Deming's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming#Honors" target="_blank">Red Bead Experiment</a>. If you have never heard of this experiment in tracking quality metrics, check out the video of Rex's presentation. The participants failed to manage quality, which meant the experiment had some interesting outcomes. Then he attempted to answer the questions "What are the most common metrics mistakes? Why are they mistakes? Why do people make these mistakes?"</div>
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After the keynote, I switched over to the Developer track to catch Justin Wolf from Cisco systems talking about "<a href="http://www.pnsqc.org/automated-testing-continuous-delivery-pipelines/" target="_blank">Automated Testing for Continuous Delivery Pipelines</a>." As the blurb said, "In our product, we use Gerrit, Jenkins, Gulp, Protractor, Jasmine, Docker, and Kubernetes...to perform automated testing on every release, execute long running soak tests, and support rapid iterations on deep performance tuning activities with complex cluster configurations." Justin's presentation was a little daunting, but mostly inspiring: His team is showing the direction for managing automated regression testing during releases in an Agile environment.<br />
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I also wanted to catch "<a href="http://www.pnsqc.org/dont-forget-security-delivering-software/" target="_blank">Don’t Forget Security When Delivering Software</a>," presented by Kiriakos Kontostathis from the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). "We are starting to see a new set of security testing tools that offer easy integration into existing delivery optimization tools." I had helped review the presentation, and was eager to see how the audience received it. Kirie did a great job, and covered all aspects of security in the software development pipeline.<br />
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The closing keynote was delivered by Darlene Bennett Greene, a retired US Navy Commander and former VP at McAffee. Similar to Peter Khoury's opening keynote, her presentation emphasized communication and leadership as key skills for anyone who works developing software systems. Because the talk was so broad, I found it difficult to fully sketchnote "<a href="http://www.pnsqc.org/cultivate-champion-mindset/" target="_blank">Cultivating a Champion Mindset and Skills to Dramatically Improve Your Life</a>." Instead I let myself listen to her words, and then captured a few key points. The most surprising? Only about 20% of US workers are engaged in their daily work. She urged leaders in companies to open two-way communication with employees and really learn to listen to their needs. As she said, "the top factors that bring success to people and companies are rooted in communication and leadership."<br />
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I resolve to to read or listen to at least one of the speakers that I don't recognize _before_ the conference starts. This year I managed to read one of Rex Black's books conference. He is such a prolific author I was surprised I had not ever read a single of his books. Reading is a good way to get to know the speaker and have some relevant questions, or at least, have something to discuss during coffee breaks. </div>
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If you don't have time for reading, try a podcast. I only got a couple chances to speak with <a href="http://www.pnsqc.org/testing-strategy-can-increase-developer-efficiency-effectiveness/" target="_blank">Brian Okken</a>, but he was interesting enough that I decided to check out his <a href="http://pythontesting.net/" target="_blank">podcast on Python Testing</a>.</div>
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By engaging with authors and speakers before meeting them, I will have the chance to cultivate my ideas and also create better connections. Personally, during the year, my resolution is to also work on growing my communication skills: written, verbal and drawn (mostly verbal).</div>
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<a href="http://mxmossman.blogspot.com/2017/01/pnsqc-2016-day-1.html">Click here</a> to see <a href="http://mxmossman.blogspot.com/2017/01/pnsqc-2016-day-1.html">Day 1 of PNSQC 2016</a>.</div>
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Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09666661574424894941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9858660.post-44415018195664234732017-01-22T15:38:00.001-08:002017-01-22T17:50:32.697-08:00PNSQC 2016: Day 1The theme of the <a href="http://www.pnsqc.org/archives/2016-conference/" target="_blank">2016 Pacific NW Software Quality Conference</a> (PNSQC) was "Cultivating Quality Software." This theme alludes to how each phase of software develop necessarily contributes to quality, much like digging, hoeing, watering and weeding all contribute to the quality of the plants and vegetables in a garden. It can also refer to the NW software quality community: how presenters and attendees can work together to cultivate future thought leaders and innovators while tending our own "garden."<br />
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I tried to document through sketchnotes some of the keynote speeches and invited speakers, as well as a few selected technical paper sessions. For any of the sketchnotes, click on an image to see the larger version.<br />
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Peter Khoury from Magnetic Speaking opened the the conference with a presentation called "<a href="http://www.pnsqc.org/from-software-tester-to-leader-how-to-take-a-radical-leap-forward-at-work/" target="_blank">From Software Tester to Leader: How to Take a Radical Leap Forward at Work.</a>" Key to the idea of cultivating leadership at the conference, Peter's talk pointed out that "public speaking skills represent an essential element in the career of any engineer who aspires to rise high within the corporation," so in order to become a leader one must learn to communicate in a way that demands to be noticed.<br />
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Next up was Invited Speaker Johanna Rothman spoke how to "<a href="http://www.pnsqc.org/rothman-deliver-quality-agile-lean/" target="_blank">Deliver Quality with Agile & Lean</a>." Johanna is an influential speaker on project management and the author of many books. Years ago I took a workshhop from her, and was curious to see what he had to say about integrating Lean concepts with Agile project management. Her talk was billed as "how agile and lean limit the batch size by either limiting scope or work in progress, and how each can help." She covered some of the nuances of Agile+Lean, but the key takeaway for me: keep tasks small - nothing larger than a day, preferably a 1/2 day.<br />
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I ended the first day listening to Eric Thompson from Puppet Labs answering the question "how do we retain top quality talent in QA? In software engineering there are many studies that support “three pillars” of motivation: Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose." His talk, titled "<a href="http://www.pnsqc.org/three-tenets-engineering-motivation/" target="_blank">The Three Tenets of Engineering Motivation</a>," gave some good ideas on engaging employees. Interestingly enough, Darlene Bennet Greene, who gave the closing keynote on Day 2, also touched on the subject of engaging and keeping employees in highly technical work environments.<br />
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Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09666661574424894941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9858660.post-11004381434658328182016-09-03T13:35:00.004-07:002017-01-22T17:51:08.045-08:00Book Review: "The Lean Startup" by Eric Ries<iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=US&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=moss0e7-20&marketplace=amazon&region=US&placement=0307887898&asins=0307887898&linkId=d6fffee1fbc4a2829987c8e06f7cbb3e&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 250px; width: 130px;"></iframe>I recently read "The Lean Startup" by <a href="http://theleanstartup.com/" target="_blank">Eric Ries</a>. Much of his book focuses on creating a minimum viable product (MVP). Often the MVP is cited by agile gurus as a way to create a simple product for learning. But, Ries says something about the MVP that is practically heretical for people who focus on quality software:<br />
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<i>"We build a minimum viable product, an early product that is terrible, full of bugs and crash-your-computer-yes-really stability problems. Then we ship it to customers way before it’s ready. And we charge money for it. After securing initial customers, we change the product constantly—much too fast by traditional standards—shipping new versions of our product dozens of times every single day."</i></blockquote>
This process of creating the MVP, however, gets to the heart of agile software development: creating short feedback cycles to improve the <a href="https://www.deming.org/theman/theories/pdsacycle" target="_blank">Plan-Do-Act</a> framework.<br />
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The goals of the MVP can be summarized as:<br />
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<li>Achieve good enough quality. "If we do not know who the customer is, we do not know what quality is."</li>
<li>Test the business model. "Customers often don’t know what they want."</li>
<li>Test business assumptions (get paid, share the risk)</li>
<li>Measure usage. Ries measure four key qualities: Registration, Activation, Retention, and Referral.</li>
<li>Learn what are the most important features & qualities</li>
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Sometimes it seems overwhelming to think about starting a business like this, but he has a case study of a business called "Food On The Table" that started with one customer and one grocery store. From that one customer they learned the requirements and eventually provided a service that spans across the US.<br />
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Key takeaway from the MVP process: "Remove any feature, process, or effort that does not contribute directly to the learning you seek."<br />
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As an aside, Ries says he didn't create the idea of a Minimum Viable Product. He cites a paper by<a href="http://www2.cs.uidaho.edu/%20~billjunk/Publications/DynamicBalance.pdf" target="_blank"> Bill Junk from 2000</a>, but it appears the URL is broken.<br />
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Bottom line: The Lean Startup is an inspiring read, but maybe not everyone wants to develop a business this way.<br />
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Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09666661574424894941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9858660.post-55722100315836418182016-06-01T14:35:00.000-07:002016-06-01T14:35:12.732-07:00Prioritizing Software Enhancements by Business ValueFive years ago I made this graphic for my boss. He was wondering how to prioritize development projects, and considering venturing into new lines of business.<br />
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I had recently been working with several business consultants and noticed how often they used quadrants. At the same time, I had been reviewing a paper a colleague was presenting at <a href="http://www.pnsqc.org/" target="_blank">PNSQC </a>wherein he describes <a href="http://www.pnsqc.org/archives/2008-conference/conference-at-a-glance/ian-savage/" target="_blank">a way to prioritize and organize software enhancements</a>.<br />
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I took the two ideas and put them together in an Excel spreadsheet (because your boss is always more impressed with a spreadsheet, right?). This was the result.<br />
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The bottom line: To create value in your product, prioritize high-value, low complexity enhancements. Immediately cancel any complex, but low value enhancements. For high-value enhancements that seem complex, try to decompose them into simpler chunks.<br />
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As far as customer growth, the paths of lowest risk are either selling existing business functions to new customers, or develop new business for existing customers. The riskiest path is to develop new business for new customers.<br />
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This philosophy has worked well for me, and I still use it for prioritizing enhancements. I forgot about the graphic, but finding it among some files impressed me enough that I wanted to share it.Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09666661574424894941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9858660.post-86146845288394735742016-05-11T09:48:00.002-07:002016-05-11T09:51:22.551-07:00Software Testing TechniquesHere is a list of software testing techniques with links to explanations<br />
<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary-value_analysis" target="_blank">Boundary analysis and equivalence partitioning</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_analysis" target="_blank">Static analysis</a></li>
<li><a href="http://blog.smartbear.com/requirements/improve-software-quality-with-requirements-based-testing/" target="_blank">Requirements-based testing</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development" target="_blank">Test-driven development</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-based_testing" target="_blank">Model-based testing</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploratory_testing" target="_blank">Exploratory testing</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_transition_table" target="_blank">State transitions</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-pairs_testing" target="_blank">Combinatorial techniques</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-box_testing" target="_blank">Structural—white box testing</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk-based_testing" target="_blank">Risk-based testing</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_table" target="_blank">Decision tables</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceptance_test-driven_development" target="_blank">Acceptance test-driven development</a></li>
<li><a href="http://context-driven-testing.com/" target="_blank">Context-driven testing</a></li>
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<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_testing" target="_blank">Unit testing</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integration_testing" target="_blank">Integration testing</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Build_verification_test" target="_blank">Build verification testing</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_testing" target="_blank">Functional system testing</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceptance_testing#User_acceptance_testing" target="_blank">User acceptance testing</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_testing" target="_blank">Regression testing</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_testing" target="_blank">Load/performance testing</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_testing" target="_blank">Security testing</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usability_testing" target="_blank">Usability/user experience</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_automation" target="_blank">Automation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploratory_testing" target="_blank">Exploratory testing</a></li>
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When I was a kid one of my favorite books was "The Phantom Tollbooth," by Norton Juster & illustrated by Jules Feiffer. I loved this book about a kid called Milo who explores a strange land called the Kingdom Of Wisdom. He gets there by driving an electric toy car through the titular tollbooth, and ends up on a quest to save the Princesses of Rhyme and Reason from the castle in the air. Both the book and many of the characters in it promote education as a virtue, which was a theme that rang a bell for me.<br />
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There was one character, however, the Humbug, who was a downright uneducated character. As the Spelling Bee declaims:<br />
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"NONSENSE! Everyone loves a Humbug," shouted the Humbug.</blockquote>
Feiffer clearly made the Humbug one of Milo's companions as a foil to his journey through Wisdom. Whenever the Humbug fails to learn something, Milo benefits by learning from it. For example, in one passage, the Mathemagician poses a problem:<br />
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Then he looked up expectantly.<br />
"Seventeen!" shouted the bug, who always managed to be first with the wrong answer.<br />
"It all comes to zero," corrected Milo.</blockquote>
I have often thought about the poor Humbug, who was always first with the wrong answer. It seems to be both a curse, and a failure of personality. Feiffer obviously thinks that the Humbug cannot learn from his mistakes.<br />
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And then I had a revelation. It came to me while reading a quote attributed to one of the signers of the <a href="http://www.agilemanifesto.org/" target="_blank">Agile Manifesto</a>. The revelation is this: The Humbug provides value to Milo by setting an anchor for the right answer.<br />
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How many times have you had to make a decision, but resorted to procrastination? You gather and process all the information, yet end up with analysis paralysis. This is analysis over action and it's an agile <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-pattern" target="_blank">anti-pattern</a> that should be avoided. It's better to make the decision, test it, and learn how to adjust based on the results of the action. Of course, keeping the action small and measurable is a key tenet of agile. For example, a heart surgeon doesn't jump directly to making the first incision, but instead advises the patient on the risks and benefits of multiple procedures and works from that to provide the best outcome for that patient.<br />
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"Estimates stay close to the number that people considered—hence the image of an anchor. If you are asked whether Gandhi was more than 114 years old when he died you will end up with a much higher estimate of his age at death than you would if the anchoring question referred to death at 35. If you consider how much you should pay for a house, you will be influenced by the asking price. The same house will appear more valuable if its listing price is high than if it is low, even if you are determined to resist the influence of this number; and so on—the list of anchoring effects is endless. Any number that you are asked to consider as a possible solution to an estimation problem will induce an anchoring effect."</blockquote>
The value of the Humbug, however, is that you know his answer is always wrong. This is an easy way to get free from the anchoring effect.<br />
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Even Stan Lee, known as a co-creator of Spider-Man and The Fantastic Four, claimed to be a Humbug once in a while. In one interview he told how he worked with a comic book artist who had a fear of the blank page. The artist would sit for hours at the page, poised to draw, unable to bring the pencil to the paper. Lee saw that the only way to overcome it was to scribble on the page, so he did. After that, the artist could begin drawing.<br />
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Who was Agile Manifesto signer who spurred my thoughts? Ward Cunningham, inventor of the Wiki.<br />
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According to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham" target="_blank">Steven McGeady</a>, Cunningham advised him in the early 1980s, "The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer." McGeady dubbed this Cunningham's law. Interestingly enough, Wikipedia points out: "Although Cunningham was referring to interactions on Usenet, the law has been used to describe how Wikipedia works."<br />
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So, the Humbug has his value: to be first with the wrong answer. Being wrong makes it easier to fail early and fail fast. A known bad starting point helps formulate the right direction. Use what was learned from the wrong answer to head for a better one, and hopefully you will be like Milo and finally find Rhyme and Reason.Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09666661574424894941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9858660.post-11882226032720231392016-01-30T11:36:00.000-08:002016-01-30T11:36:15.545-08:00Brain Teasers & the FLL Lego ChallengeFor five years I coached First Lego League teams. These were 5th - 8th grade kids who were interested in Lego robots, but sometimes had a hard time sitting still, or focusing on tasks for extended periods of time. For three months, teams of up to 10 kids would work on a building a Lego robot to do the <a href="http://www.firstlegoleague.org/challenge" target="_blank">FLL challenge </a>tasks, put together a science project based on the challenge theme, and generally work to assemble themselves into a<a href="http://www.firstlegoleague.org/about-fll#block-block-13" target="_blank"> functioning team</a>. It's a lot to ask from kids, but in addition to what they learned, I'd reward their hard work with a pizza party at the end of the season.<br />
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I started gathering brain teasers, both as a way to break up sessions of intense work, and as a fun thing to during the pizza party. After five years, I had accumulated pages and pages of riddles and brain teasers. They were great puzzles, and I wanted to share the collection with others.<br />
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I wanted to do little JavaScript project, so I finally put <a href="http://www2.rdrop.com/~moss/braintees/?" target="_blank">this page together</a>. Have fun, and share them with your FLL teams.<br />
<br />Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09666661574424894941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9858660.post-66715089808308662542015-11-01T21:55:00.000-08:002015-11-01T21:56:11.397-08:00Agile Open Northwest 2015Agile Open Northwest 2015 (<a href="http://www.agileopennorthwest.org/2015/" target="_blank">AONW</a>) was held in Portland last February. It's an <a href="http://www.agileopennorthwest.org/#about_open_space" target="_blank">Open Space </a>conference, which means the agenda and discussion are self-organized by the attendees. It's an interesting process, and if you have the opportunity to attend an Open Space conference I suggest you try it out.<br />
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<a href="http://www.agileopennorthwest.org/2016/" target="_blank">Registration for the 2016</a> conference in Seattle is about to open, which made me realize I had not yet posted my sketchnotes from 2015. Click on an image to see the larger version.<br />
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Mob Programming - The Coding Kata - hosted by Chris (?). During this talk we practiced mob programming, which is where one person runs the keyboard, and a separate person (or even the whole team) directs writing the code. The practice is meant to exercise both the muscle-memory of writing code (keyboard) and the analytical skills required to explain the code to someone else (the director). Using unit tests, iterative enhancements, and good coding hygiene, both the director and the keyboarder share their skills and knowledge. Then they swap places. Reference: <a href="http://mobprogramming.org/">mobprogramming.org</a>.</div>
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No Estimates, led by <a href="http://zuill.us/WoodyZuill/" target="_blank">Woody Zuill</a>, discussed better ways of delivering the desired functionality within a given time. </div>
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A group of people discussed Combating Technical Debt: What's acceptable, how to manage it, how to mitigate it. The phrase <a href="http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebt.html" target="_blank">Technical Debt </a>was first coined by Martin Fowler.</div>
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During the Backlog Grooming session people shared their tips for effectively and efficiently managing the project backlog. This is something I definitely need to revisit from time-to-time.</div>
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Arlo Belshee lead at least two sessions. The first session, Microskills & Key Mindshifts, listed his top mental models for taking coding and project outcomes to the next level -- and then he listed the levels. Some key points included refactoring, metrics, agile experiments, and cultivation of corporate culture. </div>
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Arlo also presented his thoughts on refactoring legacy code. Much of what he began to describe at AONW has be elaborated in his blog posts "<a href="http://arlobelshee.com/good-naming-is-a-process-not-a-single-step/" target="_blank">Naming is a process, not a single step.</a>" He also included mob programming in his demonstration of refactoring.</div>
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Agile Practices for Support and Maintenance organized by Shirley Hewitt raised some good ideas for managing maintenance development. I liked the idea of creating swim lanes to provide visibility on technical debt maintenance or items that are broken in production.</div>
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<br />Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09666661574424894941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9858660.post-82426474964741408952015-11-01T21:23:00.002-08:002015-11-01T22:11:01.102-08:00PNSQC 2015 - Day 2Here are my sketchnotes for the second day of the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference 2015 held in Portland, Oregon. Click on an image to see the larger version.<br />
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<a href="http://www.pnsqc.org/ken-pugh/" target="_blank">Ken Pugh</a>, author of "Prefactoring, Interface-Oriented Design," spoke about effectively communicating using acceptance tests. His talk outlined how the triad (developer, product owner, QA) work together to write acceptance tests that become the specs for unit tests, code, and automated regression tests. This talk was accompanied by a hands-on workshop the following day.</div>
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<a href="http://www.pnsqc.org/wayne-roseberry/" target="_blank">Wayne Roseberry </a>from Microsoft posed some interesting question: Microsoft has a lot of data regarding automated crash reports. Can this data be used to identify which have already been reported? Can it help identify areas of code that need refactoring, or have high bug results? He developed a system using the Microsoft Azure Machine Learning engine to process the bug reports.</div>
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Keeping with the theme of the conference, <a href="http://www.pnsqc.org/ronald-thompson/" target="_blank">Ron Thompson</a> used the metaphor of how the product owner influences the resulting system in the same way a particular strain of yeast might affect brewing beer. </div>
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<a href="http://www.pnsqc.org/chenwei-chang/" target="_blank">Lucy Chang</a> from Intuit gave an amazing technical talk about using Amazon web services with Wiremock to inject stubs and proxies into a distributed system. </div>
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Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09666661574424894941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9858660.post-50761824364273654162015-11-01T11:12:00.002-08:002015-11-01T22:10:48.340-08:00PNSQC 2015 - Day 1The theme of the 2015 Pacific NW Software Quality Conference (<a href="http://www.pnsqc.org/archives/2015-conference-archive/" target="_blank">PNSQC</a>) was "Brewing Quality Software." That theme alludes to Portland's notoriety for <a href="http://www.kgw.com/story/entertainment/2015/06/19/portland-best-beer-world/28989771/" target="_blank">great beer</a> and <a href="http://time.com/3506334/best-coffee-cities/" target="_blank">coffee </a>(and tea), but also ties in the focus on quality software in the Silicon Forest and beyond.<br />
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<a href="http://mxmossman.blogspot.com/2014/10/pacific-nw-quality-conference-2014.html" target="_blank">Last year</a> I learned about developing functional unit tests, and this year I hoped to learn more about writing acceptance tests, and feeding these into unit tests. I was also looking for tips on integrating unit testing in Continuous Integration (CI) environments.<br />
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Last year I tried <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=as_li_ss_tl?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=sketchnotes&linkCode=ur2&tag=moss0e7-20&url=search-alias%3Dcomputers&linkId=62BDVADSG5HRRBTQ" target="_blank">sketchnotes</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=moss0e7-20&l=ur2&o=1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> for the first time. This year I focused on simplifying the notes. I skipped trying to draw the speaker, except in simple cartoon form. I also found that a lot of my notes were simply transcriptions, so I focused on grabbing images from the talks and putting these into the notes. Sometimes these were actual images from the presentation, but more often they were metaphors or images used while speaking.<br />
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All these sketchnotes were done live. As a result, I often had to process and understand the section before I could make a note. I think this helped me get a better understanding of what I understood, and what I didn't really grasp.<br />
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<a href="http://www.pnsqc.org/casey-rosenthal/" target="_blank">Casey Rosenthal</a> from Netflix presented his talk on Chaos Engineering. The basic premise is that future (and current) distributed systems will be so complex that system architects and development engineers will be ineffective without the help of other systems. Chaos engineering will help build confidence in these systems by providing "turbulence in production," and creating new ways to visualize the systems.</div>
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<a href="http://www.pnsqc.org/pre-mortems/" target="_blank">Julie Green</a> from Con-Way Enterprises talked about using pre-mortems as a way to elicit risks in the project. She says "A Pre-Mortem meeting creates a safe environment where the sole purpose is to predict failure. Instead of a gripe session, the Pre-Mortem is structured so that attendees are asked for a few areas where they think issues will occur...Using the Pre-Mortem strategy you can stop these failures from occurring."</div>
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<a href="http://www.pnsqc.org/dwayne-thomas/" target="_blank">Dwayne Thomas</a> and <a href="http://www.pnsqc.org/kevin-swallow/" target="_blank">Kevin Swallow</a> from Crowd Compass presented a session on using coding clubs at work to improve the understand between development and QA. </div>
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<a href="http://www.pnsqc.org/bhushan-gupta/" target="_blank">Bhushan Gupta</a> raised everyone's awareness on the need for secure web applications in his talk. Some key points were the<a href="http://owasp.org/" target="_blank"> owasp.org</a> list of threats, and the<a href="http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-30-rev1/sp800_30_r1.pdf" target="_blank"> NIST800-30</a> Threat Modeling Risk Assessment. </div>
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<a href="http://mxmossman.blogspot.com/2015/11/pnsqc-2015-day-2.html" target="_blank">Click here to continue</a> to Day 2 of PNSQC 2015.</div>
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Tilikum Crossing opened last week (09/12/15). It was the first new bridge built across the Willamette in the Portland area since 1973, and also the <a href="http://catchtheorange.com/">only bridge in the U.S.</a> which isn't for cars, but carries light rail trains, buses, streetcars, bicyclists and pedestrians.<br />
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Despite all the hoopla, I was surprised when I walked across it. The bridge name is Tilikum. Until I saw it spelled out, I had been thinking "<i>Tillicum</i>." I wondered why, and did it matter how it was spelled?<br />
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Tillicum is a Chinook jargon word that was used with various meaning for a century or more. Chinook Jargon was a trade language based on Chinook, the language spoken by the natives who inhabited what is now the Washington and Oregon coast. The language was used mainly in the 19th and early 20th centuries.<br />
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According to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0875952372/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0875952372&linkCode=as2&tag=moss0e7-20&linkId=XKFTDW3UOJMPWYZS">Oregon Geographic Names</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=moss0e7-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0875952372" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
by McArthur & McArthur, Tilikum in "early Chinook referred to people or tribe or even relatives. With the passage of time the word came to mean also friendly people or even a friend. It also means friendly or agreeable, as in the case of Tillicum Creek. The older Chinook jargon word for friend, applied to persons rather than things, is siks or six."<br />
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The word may have changed over time, but did the spelling matter? Is the word simply a transliteration of the spoken sounds? In English, the difference between a single- and double-L is arbitrary, as well as the difference between K and a hard C.<br />
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With some online research, I found a free edition of a <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35492/35492-h/35492-h.htm">Chinook Jargon dictionary</a>. Here are the entries that have tilikum, tilicum, or tillicum.<br />
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<i>elip tilikum</i>, the first people<br />
<i>Konaway tilicum</i>, everybody.<br />
<i>Kunsih tilikum mitlite?</i> how many people are there?<br />
<i>Til-i-kum</i>. People.<br />
<i>Cultus tilikum</i>, common or insignificant persons.<br />
<i>Huloima tilikum</i>, strangers.<br />
<i>Nika tilikum</i>, my relations.<br />
<i>Hul-o-i-ma</i>.Other; another; different. Ex. <i>Huloima tillikum</i>, a different tribe or people;<br />
<i>Hy-iu</i>. Much, many, plenty, enough.<br />
<i>Hyiu tillicum</i>, a crowd; many people;</blockquote>
This <a href="https://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/Website/Classroom%20Materials/Curriculum%20Packets/Treaties%20&%20Reservations/Documents/Chinook_Dictionary_Abridged.pdf">article here</a> mentions that the words were probably spelled phonetically, along with simplifying everything. "Grammatical forms were reduced to their simplest expression, and variations in mood and tense conveyed only by adverbs or by the context."<br />
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Tony Johnson <a href="http://www.trailtribes.org/fortclatsop/language.htm">on this site</a> has an interesting point about how Chinook jargon, what he calls Chinook Wawa, was different from the traditional Chinook language.<br />
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Interestingly, I found that English speakers may unknowingly use some Chinook jargon, for example <i>muckamuck.</i> People may call a politician or a lodge leader a "high muckamuck." In its proper Chinook form it's "<i>hyas muckamuck</i>" (pronounced "high-ass" -- ha!). Sometimes it has degraded to "high mucketymuck." Many English speakers recognize this to mean the big boss. In Chinook it means a "big feed" or an "important banquet."<br />
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Also, the word and concept of <i>potlatch</i> has been integrated into US society. In Chinook Jargon it means a ceremony among certain tribes involving food and exchange of gifts. We sometimes use the term to refer to a potluck dinner, or sharing personal stuff with friends. There are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook_Jargon#Chinook_Jargon_words_used_by_English-language_speakers" target="_blank">more examples of popular Chinook jarogon here</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://catchtheorange.com/" target="_blank">Tri-met states</a> "Tilikum is a Chinook Jargon word meaning people, tribe, or family, and the name is intended to honor the Multnomah, Cascade, Clackamas, and other Chinookan peoples who lived in the area as long as 14,000 years ago." <br />
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But it is also a way to bridge between the ages and peoples. The <a href="http://www.chinooknation.org/" target="_blank">Chinook Nation</a> still exists today. People in the area will use the bridge every day. Hopefully, this bridge will be a reminder of the people who were here before us, and the legacy that we and the people around us leave for the future.<br />
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