Comments on: Go with what you know http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/165?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=go-with-what-you-know Dave Ferguson's interests, ideas, notions, tangents Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:35:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dave http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/165/comment-page-1#comment-4610 Dave Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:45:31 +0000 http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/165#comment-4610 Cammy, One of the things that more appealed to me about ISPI was its empirical approach. (Claude Lineberry said once in a memorable 99-second presentation, "Data are plural. By the way, where are your damn data?") That runs in several directions -- e.g., how do you know you have a <em>training</em> problem? When it comes to participating in a community of practice, the questions I hear are "What did you try?" "Why did you try it?" and "So what happened?" Isaac Asimov said that the phrase heralding the greatest discoveries is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny..." (He also said that the true delight is in the finding out rather than the knowing.) Cammy,

One of the things that more appealed to me about ISPI was its empirical approach. (Claude Lineberry said once in a memorable 99-second presentation, “Data are plural. By the way, where are your damn data?”)

That runs in several directions — e.g., how do you know you have a training problem? When it comes to participating in a community of practice, the questions I hear are “What did you try?” “Why did you try it?” and “So what happened?”

Isaac Asimov said that the phrase heralding the greatest discoveries is not “Eureka!” but “That’s funny…” (He also said that the true delight is in the finding out rather than the knowing.)

]]> By: Cammy Bean http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/165/comment-page-1#comment-4608 Cammy Bean Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:19:48 +0000 http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/165#comment-4608 Great post, Dave. Starting from the approach of "here's what I've found" vs. "here's what I know/what you should know" is great advice. Keeps us all in the position of a humble learner participating in a community of practice rather than a snooty expert in an ivory tower of knowledge. Great post, Dave. Starting from the approach of “here’s what I’ve found” vs. “here’s what I know/what you should know” is great advice. Keeps us all in the position of a humble learner participating in a community of practice rather than a snooty expert in an ivory tower of knowledge.

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