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December 11, 2006
Three neat words / quotations
I heard a few neat things that I wrote down just because they appealed to me. So I won't forget them, here they are:
Preactive. I am as bad as the next geek in liking made up words (language should evolve). This one has roots in reactive and proactive. I think I'd define it as reacting the the future. If you see some big change heading at you, your profession or your enterprise, you should be preactive!
"Being Purple". I love this one. We often talk about avoiding black and white thinking and seeking shades of grey. This is more multi-dimensional. We can mix up lots of colours and purple is what we get. Not bad as a compromise metaphor and one of my favourite colours.
"Blooks" I hate this one. It's a bad mash-up and sounds awful. I don't know who coined it but it's supposed to mean books based on blogs or written by bloggers. Yeachhh. It's as ugly as bloogs - blogs about books.
Anyway, here's a handy phrase: "[insert your subject area/enterprise/whatever] progresses one funeral at a time". I heard a leader in our profession use this in reference to physics and astronomy but it seems pretty generalizable.
Stephen
Posted by stephen at December 11, 2006 9:09 AM