elevator action

frequent earthquakes -> lack of tall buildings -> few elevators -> bay area natives that stand directly in front of the elevator doors when waiting to board.

for those of you out there that fall into this subset of cluetards, this behavior is both rude and counter-productive.

epistemic identity

two events during the last two days have reinforced my sense of belonging while reminding me that there's so much more to learn.

on saturday, i spent the day watching hopeful young motorcycle riders go from stalling and tipping over to moving around a track at a pretty good clip - but nowhere near ready for real roads. more interesting to me was that by the end of the day, they felt more comfortable calling themselves motorcyclists (as evidenced by their discussion of the next day's dress code - the guy who wore his nice kenneth cole boots wasn't going to repeat that mistake, and all of the ladies planned to bring ponytail-clips).

today, i'm sitting in the mediaX conference at stanford watching presenations on technology and people and collaboration. and i am once again reminded taht i already know so much more about these topics than the average citizen - but only on a practical, applied level.

mental models

lately my epistemic identity has been shaken by the realization that i know and have synthesized a great deal of information into a fairly decent mental model of my universe, but i have a great deal of trouble discussing the individual building blocks. or, for that matter, explaining my model. or capitalizing on it.

i think that's why i started this blog.