{"id":300,"date":"2005-01-20T22:26:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-20T22:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=300"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/20\/links\/","title":{"rendered":"Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using <a href=http:\/\/del.icio.us\/nehrlich>del.icio.us<\/a> more, so you can always go there to check out what I&#8217;ve been finding interesting in my trawls through the web, but I wanted to call out a couple specifically.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I thought <a href=http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/hs.html>Paul Graham&#8217;s latest essay<\/a> was really interesting and either inspiring or depressing depending on my mood.  Inspiring because he is reminding me that I can and should be <a href=http:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/09\/#new_directions>chasing after my dreams<\/a>, no matter what my day job is.  Depressing because his essay was aimed at high school students; shouldn&#8217;t I have a better handle on what I&#8217;m doing with my life by now?  If nothing else, it points out that I should be trying to find a way to get more writing into my life; I have continued to regularly update this blog over the past year, which is astonishing given my lack of self-discipline.  I need to sit down and start putting together some of these essays together into a submittable form and see if that goes anywhere.\n<li><a href=http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2111894\/entry\/2112064\/>A conversation on Slate<\/a> between <a href=http:\/\/www.gladwell.com\/>Malcolm Gladwell<\/a>, author of <a href=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=ericnehrlisho-20&#038;path=tg%2Fdetail%2F-%2F0316172324%2F>Blink<\/a>, and James Surowiecki, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=ericnehrlisho-20&amp;path=tg%2Fdetail%2F-%2F0385503865%2F\">The Wisdom of Crowds<\/a>.  It&#8217;s interesting to read their takes on each other&#8217;s books, but I&#8217;m mostly including a link to it because Gladwell mentions <a href=http:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/16#sources_of_power>Gary Klein&#8217;s work<\/a>.  That Gladwell would have read Klein&#8217;s work before writing Blink should have been totally obvious to me, but for some reason it wasn&#8217;t.\n<li><a href=http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/printable\/?fact\/050117fa_fact>Interesting New Yorker article<\/a> about how our armed forces are adapting to life in Iraq.  I really liked the description of how the soldiers have found their own decentralized ways of sharing information, particularly through <a href=http:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/24\/#story_based_culture>stories<\/a>.  I think it&#8217;s also a good description of the power of breaking the hierarchy wide open and letting everybody use their initiative.  <a href=http:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/08\/#management_structures>I think<\/a> it&#8217;s the way of the future, and given how the army has led many management trends, it shouldn&#8217;t surprise me to see them in the forefront yet again.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using del.icio.us more, so you can always go there to check out what I&#8217;ve been finding interesting in my trawls through the web, but I wanted to call out a couple specifically. I thought Paul Graham&#8217;s latest essay was really interesting and either inspiring or depressing depending on my mood. Inspiring because he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}