Category: Psychology
The spoilt Feelers
Men and women seem to be coming from opposite directions some of the time. There are a number of frameworks for understanding this, the most popular being John Gray’s Men are from Mars, women are from Venus. While an interesting read, it doesn’t quite cover the reality of men and women’s interactions, because of one […]
Cashless systems and doublespeak
This is going to be a bit jumbled because it covers a lot of things, and I have just got up. Cashless systems for small transactions are obviously here now. Are they a good thing for us, for the retailer, both, or neither? For the purchaser (not “consumer”) From my point of view, cash is […]
Fritjof Capra keeps popping up…
I have tried to read his book The Tao of Physics several times but get all bamboozled. He has just popped up again in Gerber’s The E-Myth. I must look more into what Capra has been saying – I feel it is important! Systems theory looks at the world in terms of the interrelatedness and […]
Awesome quote
Another nugget from a chapter preface in Science and Sanity: “Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.” Bell, E. T. In other words, when people don’t know they jump to conclusions. Such is […]
Well made machines are invisible
I came across this quote at uni, but only just saw it in connection with interfaces and gadgets: Introspective psychology and analytical philosophy of the self, of perception and of will, do not seem to take into account that in any well-made machine one is ignorant of the working of most of the parts – […]
Designing websites for the end user, not the site owner.
When designing websites for clients, there is often a tug of war between what I think looks good, what the client thinks and what the projected users will think. There is no right and wrong to what makes a site appeal to certain people, but recent research suggests there might be gender differences. Press Releases […]