(and answering these all at once, since my isp was holding my mail hostage yesterday)
What might be most of interest is the way he's covering quite a few areas, not particularly books. I do wonder whether in the text he relates this at all to ideas on how creative play can inform and stimulate better work practices.
(I wonder partly because I hang around with far too many programmers, many of whom are still wedded to comics and wargaming and all the stuff we were supposed to leave behind as kids; and partly because my husband works for a Very Well Known computing firm, where play is taken so far that the whole decor is in primary colours and the cafeteria comes straight out of kindergarten, I swear.)
Perhaps this need to hang on to the play we used as children is an outcome of the fact that our work demands increasingly inventive, independent and lateral-thinking forms of intelligence. Or perhaps it's another of those side-effects of shifting the reproductive and aging periods of our life forward. If you get it, do give us the potted review :)
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What might be most of interest is the way he's covering quite a few areas, not particularly books. I do wonder whether in the text he relates this at all to ideas on how creative play can inform and stimulate better work practices.
(I wonder partly because I hang around with far too many programmers, many of whom are still wedded to comics and wargaming and all the stuff we were supposed to leave behind as kids; and partly because my husband works for a Very Well Known computing firm, where play is taken so far that the whole decor is in primary colours and the cafeteria comes straight out of kindergarten, I swear.)
Perhaps this need to hang on to the play we used as children is an outcome of the fact that our work demands increasingly inventive, independent and lateral-thinking forms of intelligence. Or perhaps it's another of those side-effects of shifting the reproductive and aging periods of our life forward. If you get it, do give us the potted review :)