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Thu, Oct 23, 2003

Sustainable World Symposium #

Got an e-mail from VinitAllen? yesterday announcing the Sustainable World Symposium, to be held Saturday, June 14, 2004 at St. Mary's Cathedral Conference Center in San Francisco, California. From the e-mail: (9F)

The Symposium is a dynamic, intensive one-day conference for the general public on the most critical global issues that we face, their most viable solutions, and the actions that we can take -- both individually and collectively -- to achieve a peaceful, prosperous and healthy world for all. (9G)

More information is available at the Sustainable World Coalition web site. (9H)

/events | Posted at 11:41am

Mon, Oct 13, 2003

Appreciative Inquiry in Baseball #

During last Saturday's playoff game between the Cubs and Marlins, Tim McCarver? raised an interesting point about baseball players. He noted that when a player was hitting well, he would usually just shrug his shoulders about it and not try to analyze it for fear of jinxing things. However, when a player was in a slump, he could give entire dissertations on everything he was doing wrong -- elbow too high, stance too open, swinging under the ball, etc. (9D)

What does this say about baseball players? What does it say about human nature? Would ballplayers be better off if they focused their energies on why they were successful, and shrugged off their slumps? (9E)

/collaboration | Posted at 10:40am

The Value of Models #

Nathan Rosenberg, Professor of Economics at Stanford University, gave a talk last Thursday at PARC entitled, "The Endogeneity of Technological Change in 20th Century America." Endogeneity, as defined by Rosenberg, is the process of responding to changes in market forces. (97)

According to Rosenberg, up until recently, economic historians viewed technological innovation largely as an exogenous process; that is, independent of market forces. Rosenberg argues that not only is much technological innovation endogenous, but that in the last century, scientific and technological innovation in the U.S. has been especially endogenous. (98)

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/talks | Posted at 10:31am