Comments on: Linchpin http://benjaminhysell.com/archive/2010/01/linchpin/ My musings about software engineering, project management, and people management Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:22:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Business Development | Social Media Literacy | GTD and Productivity Workflow http://benjaminhysell.com/archive/2010/01/linchpin/comment-page-1/#comment-54 Business Development | Social Media Literacy | GTD and Productivity Workflow Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:19:32 +0000 http://benjaminhysell.com/?p=392#comment-54 [...] Linchpin | Benjamin Hysell – Software, Projects, and People Seth asks, “What if we all were artists? What if our workplaces were full of artists?” [...] [...] Linchpin | Benjamin Hysell – Software, Projects, and People Seth asks, “What if we all were artists? What if our workplaces were full of artists?” [...]

]]> By: Stephen Smith http://benjaminhysell.com/archive/2010/01/linchpin/comment-page-1/#comment-53 Stephen Smith Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:08:17 +0000 http://benjaminhysell.com/?p=392#comment-53 Ben, my own educational experience would have been very "cog-like" if Ihad paid much attention to it. As a voracious reader I spent most of my class-time reading other books that I held in my lap, having already completed reading the text book. I always did well on tests, but my grades "suffered" because I could not be troubled to do homework... Ben, my own educational experience would have been very “cog-like” if Ihad paid much attention to it. As a voracious reader I spent most of my class-time reading other books that I held in my lap, having already completed reading the text book.

I always did well on tests, but my grades “suffered” because I could not be troubled to do homework…

]]> By: ben http://benjaminhysell.com/archive/2010/01/linchpin/comment-page-1/#comment-52 ben Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:22:31 +0000 http://benjaminhysell.com/?p=392#comment-52 Everyone, Thank you for taking time to read my review, it means a lot to me that everyone took the time to read my post and add your own thoughts. Stephen, I agree, the section outlining the anecdotes really struck a chord with me. Elad, I completely agree, we need to inspire others around us to be artists, and break them from the desire to follow a map. One section of the book I didn't focus on in my review that I found just as interesting was how our society is setup to crank out cogs to fit into the factory system. While reading Linchpin I couldn't really relate to this section, and I believe that has a lot to do with the type of education I received in elementary and middle school. We were taught using the principals of Master Learning. From Wikipedia: <i>Mastery learning curricula generally consist of discrete topics which all students begin together. Students who do not satisfactorily complete a topic are given additional instruction until they succeed. Students who master the topic early engage in enrichment activities until the entire class can progress together.</i> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastery_learning rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastery_learning</a> What was interesting was by the time I reached high school Mastery Learning was completely phased out of the school system. One reason, as I understood it, is because it created students that couldn't be measured very well with standardized tests. Hence, the system was creating students that wouldn't be very good cogs when they reached the real world. -ben Everyone,

Thank you for taking time to read my review, it means a lot to me that everyone took the time to read my post and add your own thoughts.

Stephen, I agree, the section outlining the anecdotes really struck a chord with me.

Elad, I completely agree, we need to inspire others around us to be artists, and break them from the desire to follow a map.

One section of the book I didn’t focus on in my review that I found just as interesting was how our society is setup to crank out cogs to fit into the factory system. While reading Linchpin I couldn’t really relate to this section, and I believe that has a lot to do with the type of education I received in elementary and middle school. We were taught using the principals of Master Learning. From Wikipedia:

Mastery learning curricula generally consist of discrete topics which all students begin together. Students who do not satisfactorily complete a topic are given additional instruction until they succeed. Students who master the topic early engage in enrichment activities until the entire class can progress together.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastery_learning

What was interesting was by the time I reached high school Mastery Learning was completely phased out of the school system. One reason, as I understood it, is because it created students that couldn’t be measured very well with standardized tests. Hence, the system was creating students that wouldn’t be very good cogs when they reached the real world.

-ben

]]> By: Elad Sherf http://benjaminhysell.com/archive/2010/01/linchpin/comment-page-1/#comment-51 Elad Sherf Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:01:52 +0000 http://benjaminhysell.com/?p=392#comment-51 Thanks for putting this review up. I also find the artist part very compelling. I feel like the great call in this book is for managers and for individuals who can wake the Linchpin/artist in other people. The whole point is that it is so hard to do alone, and there are not better equipped people to help create linchpins/artists than managers. Read more about that here: http://tinyurl.com/yenn64n It is time all of us stood up and called out: hey - we are geniuses. Hey we are artists! Thanks for doing that! Elad Thanks for putting this review up. I also find the artist part very compelling. I feel like the great call in this book is for managers and for individuals who can wake the Linchpin/artist in other people. The whole point is that it is so hard to do alone, and there are not better equipped people to help create linchpins/artists than managers. Read more about that here: http://tinyurl.com/yenn64n
It is time all of us stood up and called out: hey – we are geniuses. Hey we are artists! Thanks for doing that!
Elad

]]> By: Stephen Smith http://benjaminhysell.com/archive/2010/01/linchpin/comment-page-1/#comment-50 Stephen Smith Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:35:19 +0000 http://benjaminhysell.com/?p=392#comment-50 I really enjoyed your review, I found the most important part of the book to be the anecdotes about how everyone can be an artist, no matter what their field of endeavor. Thanks for sharing this. I really enjoyed your review, I found the most important part of the book to be the anecdotes about how everyone can be an artist, no matter what their field of endeavor. Thanks for sharing this.

]]> By: Seth Godin http://benjaminhysell.com/archive/2010/01/linchpin/comment-page-1/#comment-49 Seth Godin Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:53:01 +0000 http://benjaminhysell.com/?p=392#comment-49 Thanks for this review. It's generous and appreciated! seth Thanks for this review. It’s generous and appreciated!

seth

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