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By: Personal Cartography » How to Grow Ideas

Personal Cartography » How to Grow Ideas — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 18:08:45 +0000

[...] was thoroughly taken with a post Chris Brogan put up on his blog today about seeds in a wild garden—about having and sharing ideas and watching them [...]

By: micro sd

micro sd — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:31:41 +0000

This is great way to stay with us is these connections over time. I found a celebrity who I was when I first started blogging on Twitter helped, and I'm working on a new project only support is offered – with their participation (which I did not ask for) will probably project a success. Chris to continue your analogy, you really do reap what you sow.

By: steve

steve — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:24:56 +0000

I really like this garden company and its seed selection. I’m fasincated by the purple peakcock broccoli/kale selection.

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By: How to grow ideas — Tamsen McMahon

How to grow ideas — Tamsen McMahon — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:24:48 +0000

[...] was thoroughly taken with a post Chris Brogan put up on his blog today about seeds in a wild garden—about having and sharing ideas and watching them [...]

By: Tamsen (@tamadear @Sametz)

Tamsen (@tamadear @Sametz) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:03:08 +0000

Thanks, Josh–what a great question about decision-making in the face of the information fire hose. For those who lack clarity in what they're trying to accomplish, I'm sure the new wealth of information (and access to it) makes it very, very difficult. (I like to paraphrase the Cheshire Cat on topics like this: if you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there!).

But for those with clarity–crystal clarity–decision making is no more or less hard, as all that's required is evaluating new information against previously established filters (does this fit? if yes, plant. if no, move on). But that's where your second point about attention comes in…it takes enormous discipline to hold focus and not be distracting by the newness and shininess of tools.

It always comes back, however, to your purpose: what is it I'm trying to do, and will this contribute to or complicate those efforts?

By: Tamsen McMahon (@Sametz)

Tamsen McMahon (@Sametz) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:03:08 +0000

It always comes back, however, to your purpose: what is it I'm trying to do, and will this contribute to or complicate those efforts?

By: michelson23

michelson23 — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:09:28 +0000

Great post .Thank you,

By: Josh Chandler

Josh Chandler — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:14:40 +0000

Tamsen, furthermore on your point of people needing to have the "ability to recognize fertile ground". I begin to wonder how we view our decision making ability in a wide open market like the World Wide Web, does it become a harder task, or is it manageable?

I mean, in the real-world (offline) situation we have much greater control over our choices, but times that by 1000X in the virtual (online) world and you have a much bigger task to manage!

And, another point you make about "attention; You have to tend your garden. If the environment is drying up, you need to give water.", makes me realize just how important it is to not get distracted by looking for new opportunities when we have to be sure we tend to our own flock (community) first before anything else, otherwise a vast disconnect occurs!

Great points Tamsen, thanks :)