Comments for Derek W. Wade http://derekwwade.net/blog the way which can be named is not the true way Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:54:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on Experience and Reflection over Lecture and Advice by Shehanrg http://derekwwade.net/blog/2011/10/16/experience-and-reflection-over-lecture-and-advice/comment-page-1/#comment-28307 Shehanrg Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:54:22 +0000 http://derekwwade.net/blog/?p=185#comment-28307 Good read... Good read…

]]> Comment on Praises & Curses: Inspect & Adapt or Continuous Awareness? by Inspect and Adapt http://derekwwade.net/blog/2010/09/09/praises-curses-inspect-adapt-or-continuous-awareness/comment-page-1/#comment-28285 Inspect and Adapt Wed, 29 Feb 2012 06:58:41 +0000 http://derekwwade.net/blog/?p=128#comment-28285 [...] http://derekwwade.net/blog/2010/09/09/praises-curses-inspect-adapt-or-continuous-awareness/ [...] [...] http://derekwwade.net/blog/2010/09/09/praises-curses-inspect-adapt-or-continuous-awareness/ [...]

]]> Comment on Why Do We Fear Learning? by David Koontz http://derekwwade.net/blog/2012/02/10/why-do-we-fear-learning/comment-page-1/#comment-28274 David Koontz Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:56:04 +0000 http://derekwwade.net/blog/?p=276#comment-28274 Had an interesting request from the team I'm currently coaching. We are in sprint 2's retrospective, kinda rapping up. Very few substantial improvement opportunities brought up, yet they were very appreciative - I'm sensing low trust. One last comment - directed at me and my style of coaching. Could you quit asking us questions - just give us the answer. We could use "spoonfeeding" (their word). I was dumb founded! Took me a whole weekend to process that request. To your point - learning is hard, if given the opportunity to not learn, many adults will choose the easy path. I think this is perhaps the distention between adults and children. One is born flexible and dies stiff. Stay young my friend. David Had an interesting request from the team I’m currently coaching. We are in sprint 2′s retrospective, kinda rapping up. Very few substantial improvement opportunities brought up, yet they were very appreciative – I’m sensing low trust. One last comment – directed at me and my style of coaching. Could you quit asking us questions – just give us the answer. We could use “spoonfeeding” (their word).

I was dumb founded! Took me a whole weekend to process that request.

To your point – learning is hard, if given the opportunity to not learn, many adults will choose the easy path. I think this is perhaps the distention between adults and children.

One is born flexible and dies stiff.

Stay young my friend.
David

]]> Comment on Birthright by Ebenezer Tolman http://derekwwade.net/blog/2011/07/17/birthright/comment-page-1/#comment-28253 Ebenezer Tolman Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:44:00 +0000 http://derekwwade.net/blog/2011/07/17/birthright/#comment-28253 In studying systems, I came to the conclusion that the larger system typically determines the course of its constituent sub-systems. Planet Earth circles the sun at a distance of 93 million miles, so Europe, Asia, and the Pacific Ocean also travel around the sun at the same distance. If I decide to run a marathon, my feet run 26.2 miles. If I eat a cheeseburger, my stomach has to absorb that. If I smoke cigarettes, my lungs and blood stream deal with tar and nicotine. When Japan went to war with the U.S., its citizens, including un-comprehending babies, eventually lived, and died, under a rain of bombs from B-29 Superfortresses. And so on. With that in mind, I decided that my emotions should not determine my course, but rather I should determine the course of my emotions. I realized that I could choose my internal state just as I choose which pair of shoes to put on in the morning. I may not control the weather, the politicians, or the bankers (all external milieux), but I can decide whether I want to be happy or not. I realized that I could choose to be a happy and peaceful person, irrespective of the external situation. This was my birthright, just as much as a pair of legs and a nose. I simply can choose to be peaceful and happy. It is my birthright. In studying systems, I came to the conclusion that the larger system typically determines the course of its constituent sub-systems. Planet Earth circles the sun at a distance of 93 million miles, so Europe, Asia, and the Pacific Ocean also travel around the sun at the same distance. If I decide to run a marathon, my feet run 26.2 miles. If I eat a cheeseburger, my stomach has to absorb that. If I smoke cigarettes, my lungs and blood stream deal with tar and nicotine. When Japan went to war with the U.S., its citizens, including un-comprehending babies, eventually lived, and died, under a rain of bombs from B-29 Superfortresses. And so on.

With that in mind, I decided that my emotions should not determine my course, but rather I should determine the course of my emotions. I realized that I could choose my internal state just as I choose which pair of shoes to put on in the morning. I may not control the weather, the politicians, or the bankers (all external milieux), but I can decide whether I want to be happy or not. I realized that I could choose to be a happy and peaceful person, irrespective of the external situation. This was my birthright, just as much as a pair of legs and a nose. I simply can choose to be peaceful and happy. It is my birthright.

]]> Comment on Balancing Advocacy With Inquiry at Agile Coach Camp by Olaf Lewitz http://derekwwade.net/blog/2011/09/30/balancing-advocacy-with-inquiry-at-agile-coach-camp/comment-page-1/#comment-28207 Olaf Lewitz Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:48:56 +0000 http://derekwwade.net/blog/?p=229#comment-28207 Derek, Thanks for clarifying:-) And again, for the awesome session! So good to have met you in person, finally... Take care Olaf Derek,
Thanks for clarifying:-)
And again, for the awesome session!
So good to have met you in person, finally…
Take care
Olaf

]]> Comment on Birthright by Brittney Mitchell http://derekwwade.net/blog/2011/07/17/birthright/comment-page-1/#comment-28183 Brittney Mitchell Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:05:52 +0000 http://derekwwade.net/blog/2011/07/17/birthright/#comment-28183 To pierce inside the glittered box You find a space where empty stalks Never vacant, always enhanced Meant to keep the short mind entranced The envelope was always sealed To keep intent scantly revealed The beautified must always spin Dare to stand still and glow within To pierce inside the glittered box
You find a space where empty stalks
Never vacant, always enhanced
Meant to keep the short mind entranced
The envelope was always sealed
To keep intent scantly revealed
The beautified must always spin
Dare to stand still and glow within

]]> Comment on The UX and the SM Should Be Friends by Carol Smith http://derekwwade.net/blog/2010/10/02/the-ux-and-the-sm-should-be-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-27947 Carol Smith Tue, 05 Oct 2010 03:57:37 +0000 http://derekwwade.net/blog/?p=120#comment-27947 And so it begins my friend - I look forward to our discourse! Carol And so it begins my friend – I look forward to our discourse!

Carol

]]> Comment on Coherence and Dispersion in Teams by CAS Simulation as a Java Applet | Scrum WithStyle http://derekwwade.net/blog/2010/03/08/coherence-and-dispersion-in-teams/comment-page-1/#comment-27862 CAS Simulation as a Java Applet | Scrum WithStyle Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:47:12 +0000 http://derekwwade.net/blog/?p=86#comment-27862 [...] Derek Wade notes in his blog post on this, we shouldn’t take this exercises to mean that you can simply dish out rules and expect [...] [...] Derek Wade notes in his blog post on this, we shouldn’t take this exercises to mean that you can simply dish out rules and expect [...]

]]> Comment on If You Had Been Me at ScrumGathering 2010 by Orlando Scrum Gathering 2010 Diary | Conscires http://derekwwade.net/blog/2010/03/10/if-you-had-been-me-at-scrumgathering-2010/comment-page-1/#comment-27672 Orlando Scrum Gathering 2010 Diary | Conscires Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:22:34 +0000 http://derekwwade.net/blog/?p=96#comment-27672 [...] http://derekwwade.net/blog/2010/03/10/if-you-had-been-me-at-scrumgathering-2010/ [...] [...] http://derekwwade.net/blog/2010/03/10/if-you-had-been-me-at-scrumgathering-2010/ [...]

]]> Comment on Coherence and Dispersion in Teams by Derek http://derekwwade.net/blog/2010/03/08/coherence-and-dispersion-in-teams/comment-page-1/#comment-27666 Derek Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:12:52 +0000 http://derekwwade.net/blog/?p=86#comment-27666 Hi Tobias! At SGUS, a friend apologized to me for so often "correcting the words I use when I say something," to which I replied that I actually appreciate it when he does that. I think with such a high degree of association that when I try to express a concept in my head, it almost always comes out imprecise, and thus requires interaction with another person in order to get the concept refined to its essence. So, thank you, Tobias, for appropriately refining my post. :) Yes, implosion is EXACTLY what is happening here! And I think it looked good to me initially because I tend to be strongly biased against fragmentation. But it makes sense that EITHER focus (on defending against others, or protecting others) is a focus on OTHERS, and not on the self, and thus leads to an unbalanced system. Hi Tobias!

At SGUS, a friend apologized to me for so often “correcting the words I use when I say something,” to which I replied that I actually appreciate it when he does that. I think with such a high degree of association that when I try to express a concept in my head, it almost always comes out imprecise, and thus requires interaction with another person in order to get the concept refined to its essence.

So, thank you, Tobias, for appropriately refining my post. :)

Yes, implosion is EXACTLY what is happening here! And I think it looked good to me initially because I tend to be strongly biased against fragmentation. But it makes sense that EITHER focus (on defending against others, or protecting others) is a focus on OTHERS, and not on the self, and thus leads to an unbalanced system.

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