Clark Quinn

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Lazy thinking?

Clark Quinn

Now, I’m the last who should throw stones. I can be quite guilty of lazy thinking, particularly when there’re commercial decisions to be made. (Providers have done a fabulous job of making sure you can’t compare apples to apples, and when there’re so many such situations…) Yet, there’s one place where I struggle with the consequences.

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Irreverence

Clark Quinn

I’m not flamboyant, nor funny. I’m occasionally irreverent , and those who know me personally can probably regale you with my love for puns and wordplay. Of course, I think irreverence is undervalued, and am inclined to think it may be the only truly effective tool for addressing myths , superstitions, and misconceptions. So I took some time on my walk today and thought about it a bit.

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Thinking artificially

Clark Quinn

I finally put my mitts on ChatGPT. The recent revelations, concern, and general plethora of blather about it made me think I should at least take it for a spin around the block. Not surprisingly, it disappointed. Still, it got me thinking about thinking artificially. It also led me to a personal commitment. What we’re seeing is a two-fold architecture.

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Don’t make me learn!

Clark Quinn

In a conversation with a client, the book Don’t Make Me Think was mentioned. Though I haven’t read it, I’m aware of its topic: usability. The underlying premise also is familiar: make interfaces that use pre-existing knowledge and satisficing solutions. (NB: I used to teach interface design, having studied under one of the gurus.) However, in the context of the conversation, it made me also ponder a related topic: “don’t make me learn” Which, of course, promp

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Looking ahead

Clark Quinn

A number of people are indicating that 2022 is another year to move on from. And, of course, we do need to move on (as if there were an alternative ;). Still, 2022 was a good year for Quinnovation, and here’s hoping that continues. Here’re some random thoughts looking ahead. For one, I saw an interesting piece leveraging the financial adage (really: caution) that “past performance is not indicative of future results” That comes with various investment opportunities; jus

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Conference Outcomes?

Clark Quinn

Two months ago, I wrote about the L&D Conference we were designing. In all fairness, I reckon I should report on how it went, now that it’s finished. There are some definite learnings, which we hope to bring forward, both for the conference (should we run it again, which we intend), and for the Learning & Development Accelerator (LDA; the sponsoring org, of which I’m co-director with Matt Richter) activities as well.

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Wisdom into practice

Clark Quinn

Many moons ago, I wrote about a personal quest. Recognizing that what I was doing is making people smarter ‘in the moment’, I looked for a stretch goal. That was making people wiser over time. The question, how is that working? Have I been putting wisdom into practice? First, let me state for the record that I’m not claiming to be a wise person.