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Kunal Bhatia
@kunalslab · Co-founder & Design Lead @SlidesUp
Hey Steve! As an avid learner, how do you learn? What do you like to learn about? Do you have a framework for picking a learning technique given the subject?
I'm inspired by @ellenchisa's article/talks about Learning in Product. Very curious to hear your take, especially as someone who looks at such a broad range of subjects. Thanks!
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Steve Jurvetson
@dfjsteve · Partner, DFJ
@kunalslab @ellenchisa awesome "process" question. I need to think about this and open to ideas. I have focused on conferences, and smart people and working with a team that has cognitive diversity, and most of all nurturing a child-like mind: http://jurvetson.blogspot.com/20... Use it or lose it. We have to get out of the mental ruts that career tracks and academic “disciplines” can foster. Physical exercise is repetitive; mental exercise is eclectic.
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Steve Jurvetson
@dfjsteve · Partner, DFJ
@kunalslab @ellenchisa More on the value of cognitive diversity... being more important than ability on certain teams — a lot of this was reinforced at a Management 2.0 brainstorming offsite http://www.flickr.com/photos/jur... where I wrote:
Four tenets jump to mind if we consider the Wisdom of Crowds as an emergent phenomenon, operating at a higher level of abstraction:
1) team (thinking style) diversity is more important than individual ability
2) disagreement is more important than consensus
3) and the voting policies and selection mechanisms that you put in place are more important than the coherence or even the comprehensibility about what you do.
4) The role of upper management is to tune the parameters of communication
I first started thinking about this in 2005 at the Santa Fe Institute: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jur... where Scott Page shared an interesting rejoinder:
"People in diverse groups are less happy. Their views are challenged, and they feel like the outcomes were manipulated. Based on their experiences, they will self-report that it was not better than when they were on a homogenous team."
More for the curious:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jur...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jur...
http://seedmagazine.com/content/...
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Kunal Bhatia
@kunalslab · Co-founder & Design Lead @SlidesUp
@dfjsteve thanks for such detailed responses! Just finished reading your article about nurturing a child-like mind. Perhaps this is why I'm obsessed with Pixar movies and goofy outdoor workout communities! Also, totally jealous you got to have a play-date with David Kelley :)
What do you think of his new Design Impact program at Stanford, where students now pick themes in Energy and Healthcare? http://designimpact.stanford.edu/
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Kunal Bhatia
@kunalslab · Co-founder & Design Lead @SlidesUp
@dfjsteve since you focus on learning at conferences, could I ask you a few questions about your past experiences? Working on something to help you learn and connect with people of diverse thinking styles at these events. More details on Twitter (https://twitter.com/KunalsLab/st...) and I'd be happy to email you to discuss further.
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