Boltzmann's macro vs micro states re: entropy - something along the lines of how many micro states can fluctuate before it affects the macro state .... if the number of micro states is high than entorpy is high (the system is highly disordered) if the number of rearrangements is small (then system is ordered, system is highly
if something is highly ordere small rearrangements are noticeable // if disordered, you can rearrange a lot before you notice.
Monday, February 28, 2011
tl;dr - facilitation #1
Alright - helped facilitate a theme/action planning brainstorm during a strategic planning session today. did pretty good. Want to work on some of the things I forgot to employ - possibly a bit to unstructured at times. overall good though, would like to facilitate more often.
facilitation today
today I facilitated a strategic planning session - the group was supposed to discuss themes and action items from the topics we were provided. We had about 7-8 facilitators with each facilitator having a group of 6-7 people around a table. We had 2 brainstorming sessions and kept the same group for both times.
During the first session I thought I kept a good flow but I would have liked to premise the discussion a bit more. I didn't really have a chance though - I left to get some sticky notes and they had already started when I came back! Either way, some good themes and action items emerged. I think I covered it well and did some good on-going reviews/summarizing as I would basically say, "alright this is what I've got down as a few themes have emerged, does this represent what you guys are thinking/saying". I could have asked some more probing questions within each of the key points, but I was a bit too loose on that and forgot. I would like to faciliate another session soon so I can keep these learnings in check.
The second session was too lax. We focused on a few brainstorming options and then I decided it was going nowhere so I zoned in on one issue. That was good, but then I got too lax again. I let them beef over process a bit too much and didn't bring it back up to strategy enough (I did it a few times by saying, "okay let's go back to this" or "let's try to not to discuss things we can't change" ( <-- of course with this there is always the ability to challenge the assumption that you can not in fact change it...but let's start being a little more real! vs. the extreme sub-zone within complexity in the cynefin framework) - on that note: i would have liked to run a bit of a cynefin blend on our excercise today - let's do strat planning by showing the framework, getting the problems/oppoorutnities and contexutlziaing and then based on the ontology of the system determining the decision-making heuristic.
, anyways, back to the task: In retrospect: i should have been a bit more structured during the 2nd brainstorming session. having the same group led me to think that I could let them talk more openly, but in fact, I let people talk too long on process issues...witout much payoff!
I need to make eye-contact with my audience members; didn't do that enough. Also, wear a god damned belt next time, air head!
During the first session I thought I kept a good flow but I would have liked to premise the discussion a bit more. I didn't really have a chance though - I left to get some sticky notes and they had already started when I came back! Either way, some good themes and action items emerged. I think I covered it well and did some good on-going reviews/summarizing as I would basically say, "alright this is what I've got down as a few themes have emerged, does this represent what you guys are thinking/saying". I could have asked some more probing questions within each of the key points, but I was a bit too loose on that and forgot. I would like to faciliate another session soon so I can keep these learnings in check.
The second session was too lax. We focused on a few brainstorming options and then I decided it was going nowhere so I zoned in on one issue. That was good, but then I got too lax again. I let them beef over process a bit too much and didn't bring it back up to strategy enough (I did it a few times by saying, "okay let's go back to this" or "let's try to not to discuss things we can't change" ( <-- of course with this there is always the ability to challenge the assumption that you can not in fact change it...but let's start being a little more real! vs. the extreme sub-zone within complexity in the cynefin framework) - on that note: i would have liked to run a bit of a cynefin blend on our excercise today - let's do strat planning by showing the framework, getting the problems/oppoorutnities and contexutlziaing and then based on the ontology of the system determining the decision-making heuristic.
, anyways, back to the task: In retrospect: i should have been a bit more structured during the 2nd brainstorming session. having the same group led me to think that I could let them talk more openly, but in fact, I let people talk too long on process issues...witout much payoff!
I need to make eye-contact with my audience members; didn't do that enough. Also, wear a god damned belt next time, air head!
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
the ubiquity of connection
can connections amongst data sources become ubiquitous (connect your sleeping data, with your food intake data, with your nature of voice/tone data, with....work data, with school data)? can data be automagically collected and presented to individual humans? can it? will it? how?
Combining: living data (energy consumption, eating, sleeping, eating, other habits) with nature of conversation (tone, satisfaction, etc.), with work/employee data, with networked data, with forecasts (weather data, stock market, etc.) with government approval ratings, with .....>WITH everything!
Combining: living data (energy consumption, eating, sleeping, eating, other habits) with nature of conversation (tone, satisfaction, etc.), with work/employee data, with networked data, with forecasts (weather data, stock market, etc.) with government approval ratings, with .....>WITH everything!
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