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how to use more modelling techniques
- by Erkan Yilmaz (talk), from Observations, 11:18, 10 February 2010, no comments.
From now on I will try to use modelling techniques in every post. Thanks, Gene + Kerry 
In this simple causal loop diagram (CLD) you see some "learning by doing". I guess I will select at begin boundaries, otherwise the CLDs might get too large. Probably adding explanatory text will help then.
At first I thought I have a simple reinforcing loop, but well, there is always a limit to growth. Perhaps the more experience in ST (systems thinking), it will also accentuate on the thinking part in systems thinking. One "just" has to define what activities really includes (e.g. thinking also is an activitiy?), or not? Anyways, this will also lead to activities. On the other hand, when doing more activities perhaps one doesn't even have enough time anymore? One might get lost in the details than focusing on the big picture. Let's see...
- edit: my first attempts with CLDs included many +/- on the arrows, I guess one approach then is to split the node in more parts. So much to the boundaries
never change a running system
- by Erkan Yilmaz (talk), from Observations, 16:37, 8 February 2010, no comments.
Do you remember using this sentence or the idea at least once in your life? When? After something bad happened? When someone complaining to you about something? Was this "bad" really bad or just a bad thing at that moment? And later on it proved something better?
What might cause this reaction? Fear? Fear of losing, what? time? data? ... Simple know-all behaviour?
But, isn't this just an illusion? All things change, somehow, sometime, ... Can one really make something NOT change? panta rhei
do you know how you breathe
- by Erkan Yilmaz (talk), from Observations, 09:38, 7 February 2010, no comments.
breathing: life critical task, you can do it on your own, with the help of a device, conscious, while sleeping. Do you observe how breathing actually goes on? Do you observe what influences exhalation and inhalation have? E.g. when you do sports (swimming,...), when you are emotional, when you smoke, when you play an instrument, ...
wanna participate in learning program - Systems Perspective stage
- by Erkan Yilmaz (talk), from Observations, 14:04, 6 February 2010, no comments.
We are looking for 3-4 people willing to experiment with a learning program for the Systems Perspective stage (Systems Thinking World).
Time to start: earliest Monday, February 8th 2010.
run time: 2 weeks
Interested? (in case you read this later on: there will be more, just read that linked page)
how does what you do relate to this
- by Erkan Yilmaz (talk), from Observations, 20:49, 31 January 2010, no comments.
see also health maps of the world
 GHI 2008 |
 GHI winners and losers from 1990 to 2008 |
storytelling for today
- by Erkan Yilmaz (talk), from Observations, 19:04, 27 January 2010, no comments.
If you want you can tell any story to any situation, you just have to find a good junction
- "This too shall pass" [1], also a Sufi story and probably in many more cultures
- Gordian Knot
- What MUST one really do?
just black and white
- by Erkan Yilmaz (talk), from Observations, 13:36, 23 January 2010, no comments.
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Just with black + white great things can be established. How about using just one color? Adding more colors/effects gives more or less value? Using no color and utilizing other senses? Don't try to find a final answer, just feel it. Feelings change!
- pencil+paper
- optical illusions, e.g. Benham's top / disk (if you do not see the effect, you might try another browser: FF3 worked for me)
- ...
which came first, the chicken or the egg
- by Erkan Yilmaz (talk), from Observations, 09:12, 23 January 2010, no comments.
When looking back: which came first, the chicken or the egg ?
Consciousness and the Biology of the Brain
- by Erkan Yilmaz (talk), from Observations, 18:33, 18 January 2010, no comments.
Consciousness and the Biology of the Brain (talk between Christof Koch + Harry Kreisler)
Please be more interested than the interviewer, Koch tries with so much associations (zombie behaviour, drunks losing keys, coalition of neurons, binocular rivalry, magic circle, little man in the brain, perception is organized in discrete snapshots, two minds in a skull, 50000 people studying the brain, ...)
you limit yourself with words
- by Erkan Yilmaz (talk), from Observations, 09:35, 10 January 2010, no comments.
only, all, always, forever, never, continually, permanent, ...
really?
you want to know more about your body
- by Erkan Yilmaz (talk), from Observations, 10:00, 25 December 2009, no comments.
one way: get ill when vacation starts. How unlucky must one be, really.
P.S.: I probably could win a Mr. Wet-Shirt contest by my sweat produced these last days
how many perspectives are there
- by Erkan Yilmaz (talk), from Observations, 07:58, 5 December 2009, no comments.
So, which perspective did you pursue more - recently?
The good, the bad? The positive, the negative? The advantages, the disadvantages?
Are there only x sides to a story? How many perspectives can you identify? More than x?
do you know BoA
- by Erkan Yilmaz (talk), from Observations, 21:14, 15 November 2009, no comments.
BoA (Beat of Angel) - an incredible voice. I try to stop all I do when I hear her. (Music I like/Erkan Yilmaz)
What kind of mobile phone do I wish
- by Erkan Yilmaz (talk), from Observations, 20:48, 15 November 2009, no comments.
None atm, mine is working.
I have seen over the past months different people buy new ones. Well, if I need one, I want to buy one with an open source OS.
- Before that probably I'd buy a Snow Leopard with hardware.
why not try to get more senses activated
- by Erkan Yilmaz (talk), from Observations, 07:51, 1 November 2009, one comment.
Well, reading with the laptop is fine. But for some enjoying moments I need the feeling of having a book in my hands - and a cup of coffee within reach
the spirit level and the water prisoned inside
- by Erkan Yilmaz (talk), from Observations, 20:51, 18 October 2009, 5 comments.
While using a spirit level today I thought: what a nice invention. Also crossed my mind: the water inside is cut from the other water. I wonder when it will join the family ? On the other hand the other elements of the spirit level are also (far) away from their kind.
why not read that
- by Erkan Yilmaz (talk), from Observations, 13:57, 4 October 2009, no comments.
Shu-shan No-Toes visiting Kong Qiu and Lao Dan
I like this question
- by Erkan Yilmaz (talk), from Observations, 21:41, 28 September 2009, no comments.
My favorite question for today is:
- What seems to be the problem ?
Much much better than: What's the problem ?
How much is your life worth
- by Erkan Yilmaz (talk), from Observations, 18:01, 28 September 2009, 3 comments.
So, how much units of x is your life worth ? And how about someone else's life ?
What would the world look like without written word, scripture
- by Erkan Yilmaz (talk), from Observations, 18:32, 23 August 2009, 2 comments.
different - but how ?
