RE: https://mastodon.acm.org/@ACM/116754186942255994
"What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention." — Herbert A. Simon (1971)
in ‘Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World’ #ObservableWork #organizationaldesign
@cogdog @jonudell 🧵Jon Udell TUG 2010 Observable Workshop
TSI’s TUG 2010 news post includes:
A casual video of the 3+ hour ‘Observable Workshop’ led by Jon, which he summarized in real time on a whiteboard.
‘Being observable: culture, environment, and habit’
Jon Udell TUG Keynote
Includes video and slide links
More talks, and Jim McGee’s Keynote—many with video and slide links—on the ‘Observable Work’ theme.
@cogdog @jonudell 🧵Jon Udell TUG 2010 Observable Workshop
Jon’s whiteboard notes from the discussion:
1. Be the authoritative source for your own data
2. Pass by reference not by value
3. Know the difference between structured and unstructured data
4. Create and adopt disciplined naming conventions
5. Push your data to the widest appropriate scope
6. Participate in pub/sub networks as both a publisher and a subscriber
7. Reuse components and services
🧵Ishmael onboarding
‘Learn by by watching — then do’
Blog post 446 (2007)
From JP Rangaswami’s opening up his mailbox to direct reports,
To my experience creating and sharing serial files at NRL,
Thomas A. Stewart — ‘The Wealth of Knowledge’
To Doug Engelbart’s shared Journal of dialogue records, external intelligence, and knowledge products,
To our original Traction Product Proposal (1997) http://tractionsoftware.com/traction/permalink/Blog2804
A favorite quote. And a theme that inspired one of my favorite early blog posts on how a new person joining a group can learn what the group knows, and how to work together well.
#ObservableWork #Onboarding
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