Monthly Archives: November 2008
Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently
Knowledge Share: Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently by Gregory Berns.
“The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.”
-Martin Luther King Jr
My name is Michael Law, I’m the General Manager at ExperiencePoint. Being the GM of a growing and ever-evolving organization means that I often find myself in situations where I’m presented with a problem that I’ve never had to think about before, let alone solve. In fact, I would say this is true throughout our organization. It is these constant challenges that lead me to research how we make decisions. After reading an article in Fast Company magazine about Gregory Berns’ new book, I was interested to learn more, specifically about how fear affects our perception, and therefore the decisions we make. Read the rest of this entry
Flash at Experiencepoint
As the lead Flash developer at Experiencepoint I wanted to write a general introduction about what Flash is and how it has changed over the years. I’ve simplified a few technical concepts in this posting to keep things from getting too bogged down. I hope you will find this post to be a useful and informative read.
ExperienceChange: GlobalTech – Fall 2008 Update
We’re very pleased to announce the release of an update to the ExperienceChange: GlobalTech simulation. Reviews of the Flash-based version released almost six months ago have been very positive. That said, there are always ways to make it better – and your feedback has driven this latest release:
Simplicity in simulations…
Paul Rezar is ExperiencePoint’s Creative Director and earlier this year he recommended an intriguing book, “The Laws of Simplicity” by John Maeda, a professor at MIT and founder of the MIT SIMPLICITY Consortium.
Paul had read and even summarized the book for one of our weekly ExperiencePoint ”Share” sessions. The ideas were – appropriately – simple and I made a note on my mental ‘to-do’ list to borrow and read for a deeper understanding.
Well, there’s a lot of mental dust on my mental ‘to-do’ list and it wasn’t until earlier this week (thanks to a 5.5 hour flight from SFO to IAD) that I finally followed-through.
