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DSRP · June 29, 2021

Hungry? Better Use DSRP...

Across the animal kingdom, hunting methods vary. The more adept an animal is at distinguishing prey from not prey and further distinguishing one type …

Elena Cabrera

Systems Thinking · June 17, 2021

What You Don't See Can Hurt You...and All of Us.

I am fascinated by how easily humans are manipulated; which is often the result of structural blindspots (bias) that are used against one another. In …

Derek Cabrera

June 12, 2021

The Curious Case of the Fronted Adverbial

Before the tweet below, I didn't know what a fronted adverbial was. It turns out that there's a name for a literary technique (most of us use often) w…

Derek Cabrera

DSRP · June 4, 2021

Chrome Tab Groupings: Reason for Hope

At the risk of sounding utterly pedestrian, possibly histrionic, and opening myself to accusations of making much ado about nothing...Google Chrome ta…

Derek Cabrera

Systems Thinking · May 12, 2021

Using DSRP in Health and Human Performance

This blog is from: https://gmschmidt3.medium.com/using-dsrp-in-health-and-human-performance-3a64432d83c9 While Systems Thinking v2.0 is not always nec…

Grant Schmidt

VMCL · April 27, 2021

Designing an Effective Vision Can Be Challenging

Designing an Effective Vision Can Be Challenging. By far, the most challenging aspect of Vision design is that they are ideally binary. Where VMCL is …

Derek Cabrera

Education · April 1, 2021

Is rote learning bad? No, but it’s not enough.

Let’s take an example where a learner is asked to understand the species concept, a categorization system that explains that all life is organized acc…

Derek Cabrera

DSRP · March 10, 2021

Perspective Masters: The Bowerbird

This post was adapted from A Literature Review of the Universal and Atomic Elements of Complex Cognition . Turn on a nature documentary and you might …

Elena Cabrera

Distinction (D) Identity-Other · March 2, 2021

The DSRP of Creepy AI Images

A set of haunting images has hit the internet. Not Freddy Kruger haunting, but somehow equally disturbing for our brain. The text from one of the imag…

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