Clippings

Journaling as an Essential Leadership Discipline

At today's New York Times, Sheila Lirio Marcelo, founder and chief executive of Care.com, reflects on a lesson she learned from an executive coach after she became a vice president at a firm.

Q. So what did you learn from the executive coach?

A. The first thing she gave me advice on, and I give it to everybody, is to journal. Write things down. When you come out of a meeting, or you come out of an interview, or you just finished running a session, what’s on your mind? How did it make you feel? How did you make people feel? What’s going on? Again, it was raising my self-awareness around my management style. I think that was critical.

I haven't often seen the need for self-knowledge and reflection in leaders acknowledged so directly.

More of that Bionic Stuff

Q. WHAT EXACTLY IS BRAINGATE?

A. It’s a way for people who’ve been paralyzed by strokes, spinal cord injuries or A.L.S. to connect their brains to the outside world. The system uses a tiny sensor that’s been implanted into the part of a person’s brain that generates movement commands. This sensor picks up brain signals, transmits them to a plug attached to the person’s scalp. The signals then go to a computer which is programmed to translate them into simple actions.

via nytimes.com

From Twitter user @CreatvEmergence.

Sherwood Hall Farmer's Market

Shopping at the Farmer's Market at Sherwood Hall reveals a kaleidoscope of colors and aromas and soon-to-be discovered tastes. Will put a variety of berries in a gallette tomorrow; will plot for some new savory ingredients (squash blossoms and tomatillos) for a return visit. It's amazing how friendly people are when they're around good food.

The Death of the Phone Call

This generation doesn’t make phone calls, because everyone is in constant, lightweight contact in so many other ways: texting, chatting, and social-network messaging. And we don’t just have more options than we used to. We have better ones: These new forms of communication have exposed the fact that the voice call is badly designed. It deserves to die.

via wired.com

At Wired, Clive Thompson offers a post on something that's probably inevitable, the death of the phone call. It's amazing to think of all the ingrained habits that are being replaced. Wanna go to the record store?