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Open Source Treatment Model
July 1st, 2010 by John Creighton in WarmUp
Tags: Citizen Centric, Institutions
Read an interesting article about Alcoholics Anonymous in Wired this morning. AA strikes me as an example of an early open-source, patient centric model of treatment.
Read more...Facing down temptation
June 5th, 2010 by John Creighton in WarmUp
Tags: Leadership, Work
Rough thoughts to warm up on a Saturday morning… Facing down temptation is a human challenge as old as time. Isn’t that what many stories in the Bible are about? Isn’t that one of the purposes of religion… to instill the habits of avoiding destructive temptations? One of the best ways to resist temptation is to avoid putting oneself in a position in which it is possible to act on our temptations. Can’t resist eating ice cream. Don’t buy it. [...]
Read more...Learning limits and self control.
May 29th, 2010 by John Creighton in WarmUp
Tags: Culture, Parenting, Social Media, Technology
Some rough thoughts to warm up on a Saturday morning… How do you teach your children self control? How do you help your children set limits so they don’t get “too much of a good thing?” If there is one thing that is more difficult for parents of this generation to instill in their children than previous generations, perhaps limits and self control are it. Setting limits on TV, computer, food, consumption in general is a daily issue now. Not [...]
Read more...Convenience is the enemy of meaning.
May 28th, 2010 by John Creighton in WarmUp
Tags: Civility, Public Values
Some rough thoughts to warm up on a Friday morning… “Conveniences is the enemy of meaning.” That sub headline caught my eye this morning. It comes from a longer Fast Company article about Memorial Day: Reinventing Memorial Day: Creating Inconvenience and Relevance. Providing consumers convenience is what drives much of the private sector. Business people spend their careers figuring out how to make the consumer experience more convenient. I enjoy convenience. For instance, I don’t check bags when I fly. [...]
Read more...Numbers
May 26th, 2010 by John Creighton in WarmUp
Tags: Work
Very rough thoughts to warm up on a Wednesday morning… I love it when I find someone who has spent the time to dig deeper into numbers and challenges me to think harder about what’s going on in the world. I found this post today by Dan McCarthy, chairman and CEO of Network Communications, Inc. (NCI). U.S. Census figures show that median household income in the United States has been relatively flat. Taken at face value, a person could reasonably [...]
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