Re: Interview Question (your Sunday ruined part 2)

On Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:18:52 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
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On a sunny day (Mon, 28 Oct 2024 08:17:36 -0700) it happened john larkin
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On Mon, 28 Oct 2024 06:06:38 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
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On a sunny day (Sun, 27 Oct 2024 10:37:19 -0700) it happened john larkin
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In our new office/design center we don't have a real conference room,
so we go on group hikes around the Bernal Cut or in Glen Canyon. That
seems to really work, getting physical outdoors with the crew. I just
wish that more trees had whiteboards.

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Go to the beach and draw in the sand?

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We'd have to drive to a beach (ocean or Bay or Gate are about equal
distances) and that would be a nuisance with parking and such. And the
graphic resolution of sand is mediocre.
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No whiteboard forces more mental visualization. We can bail on the
hike and go back to the office and whiteboard, max delay about 20
minutes.
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Architectural and management concepts work in a hike, circuit design
not so well.
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Percolating ideas is an interesting process. There must be books on
the subject. The physical situation seems to matter.

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Nature is very inventive, plants, animals,
maybe spending some time there helps?
There are simple drawing programs for on your smartphone or laptop
that can be usd to show somebody more complex things wherever you are,
even via the internet (My laptop has a Huawei 4G stick, is on 4G)
I do need a working mouse however..

Thinking while hiking avoids the Eyeball Effect, the fact that most
people change their behavior as a function of how many eyeballs are
aimed at them. Actors and musicians and politicians have extreme
eyeball sensitivity, get high from big audiences. Most autistic people
have little or none.

Eyeball Effect distorts clear thinking. Hiking with people, you seldom
see their eyeballs.

I've noticed that animals, cats and dogs and birds, are sensitive to
eyeball effect too. It's probably a component of their threat
evaluation.