A group of us spent the better part of today learning about HeartMath from Joseph Sundram (left, showing where his heart is) and Regan Caruthers (below right).

My first brush with HeartMath was in the aisles of some training conference, and the sales people in the booth weren’t adept at describing Continue reading →

Wednesday, October 5, 7:30 pm

Education theorist Edward L. Davis, author of Lessons for Tomorrow: Bringing America’s Schools Back from the Brink, is a pioneer in computer-based instruction and in applying cognitive science to learning design. He is joined by Jay Cross, a leading theorist on computer-based Continue reading →

Around 3:30 pm today, an email arrived from Kaliya to alert me to a meeting of PlanetWork a few hours later in neighboring Emeryville. I showed up at 6:00 pm, having missed the fact that while the doors opened at 6:00, the actual event was to start at 7:00 pm. We met in a building that looked slummy Continue reading →

I dropped by TechLearn in Las Vegas this week because I wanted to witness the end of an era. I’ve been to TechLearn every year since 1998. This was the first year with no presence from founder Elliott Masie. I don’t expect TechLearn to last long without him.

Things kicked off Sunday night with a Continue reading →

I’m trying to build a conference agenda collaboratively with a dozen people in eight countries. It’s a natural application for a wiki. The problem is that most of the people in the group have never seen a wiki, much less posted entries to one, though all are quite computer-literate. I’m having a tough Continue reading →

When I fired up Firefox today, it asked who I was logging in as. I figured a new version was kicking in. Then I was ushered to the default Google start page instead of my home page. My bookmarks were gone. My extensions had disappeareed. My memorized passwords are missing. This browser is as bare as Continue reading →

When Austin was in grade school (he’s now a senior at SF State), I took him to hear Don Norman speak at Cody’s Books in Berkeley. I did not want him to go through life blaming himself for mistakes made by designers. Don’s canonical example of design gone wrong was the typical configuration of controls Continue reading →

We learn by venturing out of our comfort zones, and conversation is probably the most effective learning medium ever invented. My mind is still reeling from attending the Accelerating Change Conference at Stanford last weekend. Scientists, mathematicians, and very deep geeks are not my usual conversational Continue reading →

Ray Kurzweil presented the thesis of his new book, The Singularity is Near, at the Accelerating Change 2005 conference this weekend. During the presentation, slides appeared on screen as if erupting from an AK47. I couldn’t keep up. Happily, the graphics are so good that you can devine Ray’s story Continue reading →

DAY TWO

Mark Finnern
SAP Developer Network

SAP Developer Network …points for recognition. Hiring pool. SAP overall: 12 million users. 88,700 installs. 1500 partners. 28,900 employees. Focus now more on product life cycle and business process change as well as business process change. (Cf. Shai Agassiz Continue reading →