Teaching, Instruction, Education
Ambitions for someone else's mind
Learning via teaching
Why we should read
The curse of knowledge
The cultivation of inherent faculties
It cannot be taught in words
The wisdom of the apprentice
Institutions of learning
Not of method but of heart
Results of a search
The great teacher
This is how I lived
Multiple choice
I think very well of him indeed
Technical viruosity
Learning how to learn
Immer wieder
No-nonsense
Interaction of Color
Welcome to class
Cubed
A dry, husky business
A segment of the enormous file
Taylorism
Divided against itself
Form follows finance
Serendipity
Office survival
The office landscape
Open-plan the world
In the end, noise would always be a problem, when quiet was not placed at a premium. Interaction and communication were conceived of as norms in the landscaped office; introspection and concentration were sidelines. In the rush to open-plan the world, some crucial values for the performance of work were lost.
The cubicle
The cubicle had the effect of putting people close enough to each other to create serious social annoyances, but dividing them so that they didn’t actually feel that they were working together. It had all the hazards of privacy and sociability but the benefits of neither. It got so bad that nobody wanted them taken away; even those three walls offered some kind of psychological home, a place one could call one’s own. All these factors could deepen the frenzied solitude of an office worker.
Chilled-out anxiety
Working in the typical dot-com office was an admixture of frenetic pace and a relaxed overall atmosphere, exemplifying that chilled-out anxiety which was the general mood of the 1990’s.
A resource
The office, Chiat argued, had become the site of a turf war, not a place to do work. Changing the office “means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics,” he argued. “You come to work because the office is a resource.”