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HERE WE GO:

As the author of this unusual book explains, most problems consist of 'chunks' of information, and identifying and manipulating these chunks can lead us to a solution. Post-it Notes provide the ideal medium for this process: they can hold information, they stay where they're put and they can be combined and rearranged to reflect further analysis. They are particularly suited to group problem-solving, where both the information and the process need to be shared.

-- CatherineJohnson - 22 Dec 2005

Clearly, I need to solve my problems rapidly with Post-It Notes.

-- CatherineJohnson - 22 Dec 2005

I'm buying the book.

fyi

-- CatherineJohnson - 22 Dec 2005

from Amazon:

This book is a real wonder. In a very friendly way, and without resorting to any technology beyond sticky notes, it introduces several concepts of computer science and systems engineering.

It can be used as a brainstorming tool, but it can also be used by us programmers as a gift to the non-programmers in our lives. It can serve as an exposition of what it is we do all day when we aren't cursing irritating APIs and OS misfeatures. This is about the part of our jobs that we love and that we have so much trouble explaining.

I'm delighted it's still in print. I love oddball books in general, and this is a great example. It really delivers much more than it claims to.

Don't hesitate for a minute to buy this one.

-- CatherineJohnson - 22 Dec 2005

It looks really fascinating!

Low-tech is definitely the way to go.

-- CarolynJohnston - 22 Dec 2005

View Your Mind

-- SmartestTractor - 22 Dec 2005

Rapid Problem Solving with Post-It Notes

Who publishes it? 3M?

-- KDeRosa - 22 Dec 2005

And BTW, I am quirkless.

-- KDeRosa - 22 Dec 2005

Windows Version of View Your Mind

The link above is for a MAC.

-- SmartestTractor - 22 Dec 2005

And BTW, I am quirkless

no

-- CatherineJohnson - 22 Dec 2005

RUTHless, not QUIRKless

-- CarolynJohnston - 22 Dec 2005

and sometimes brainless

-- KDeRosa - 22 Dec 2005

and sometimes brainless

ok, that I have yet to see

-- CatherineJohnson - 22 Dec 2005

talk to my wife

-- KDeRosa - 22 Dec 2005

that won't be necessary

-- CatherineJohnson - 23 Dec 2005

the whole point of being married is to behave brainlessly with your spouse, as far as I can tell

-- CatherineJohnson - 23 Dec 2005

and that's on a good day

-- CatherineJohnson - 23 Dec 2005

and, uh, the term 'spouse' includes both parties

-- CatherineJohnson - 23 Dec 2005

A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices

somebody must have left this link

this website looks cool

-- CatherineJohnson - 24 Dec 2005

WOW!

Now I'll have to learn all those.

-- CarolynJohnston - 24 Dec 2005

back in Studio City I had a 'tea group'—4 friends from the neighborhood—we used to tell 'stupid husband stories' (no stupid wife stories...)

The best one ever was the one about the husband (someone's uncle, I think) who liked to read the newspaper with a magnifying glass while sitting under a skylight

he finally set himself on fire doing that

-- CatherineJohnson - 24 Dec 2005

"somebody must have left this link"

I think that was me on the sentence diagramming thread. I was looking for the name of a particular rhetorical device that I decided not to use in the comment, but thought the link interesting enough to use.

-- DougSundseth - 25 Dec 2005

I think that was me on the sentence diagramming thread. I was looking for the name of a particular rhetorical device that I decided not to use in the comment, but thought the link interesting enough to use.

now I'm totally confused......

-- CatherineJohnson - 25 Dec 2005

Rewrite. 8-)

At one point in my reply, I was planning to mention some rhetorical device or other (apophis?), that could be overused. So I looked up "rhetorical devices" in google and found the link you noticed.

In the end, I didn't like the way the comment was working out, so I deleted that part, but still found the link interesting enough to include it as a hyperlink for "rhetorical devices" in the comment.

-- DougSundseth - 27 Dec 2005