Someone who writes brain teasers and puzzles would also surely know to solve an array of other problems as well, or at least has ways of trying to.
Puzzle creator’s tips for solving everyday problems
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 26 August, 2009 to the comment subset
Question asking as a problem solving method
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 8 January, 2009 to the comment subset
“The basic unit of knowledge is a question.”
“The basic unit of knowledge is a question.” This is a common saying at Toyota, where hierarchical, authority-based leadership is eschewed in favor of responsibility-based leadership. Which is to say that people at the top of the corporate food-chain don’t drive all the decisions just because they sit [...]
Tim Berners-Lee, the Web, and “creative connectivity”
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 13 June, 2008 to the comment subset
Tim Berners-Lee would like to see the Web becoming a repository of “partly formed ideas” that could eventually assist in solving some of humanity’s larger problems, by forming a “trail of thinking”, that people could progressively contribute thoughts to until, through collective thinking, a solution emerges.
It is an idea he refers to as “creative connectivity”.
“Now [...]
