Comments for Richard Nantel

Comment on A Significantly Abridged List of My Goals for 2012 by admin

admin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 01:32:16 +0000

Dale: Thanks for visiting. Hoping 2012 is filled with much happiness for you and your family.

Comment on A Significantly Abridged List of My Goals for 2012 by admin

admin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 01:30:34 +0000

David: Good thinking. Recruiting and retention are clear indicators of a positive culture.

Comment on A Significantly Abridged List of My Goals for 2012 by admin

admin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 01:29:27 +0000

Dan: the bourbon is a brilliant idea. But, the company is growing fast and sending a bottle to everyone will be cost prohibitive, let alone will set back the product development roadmap by many years.

Comment on A Significantly Abridged List of My Goals for 2012 by David Goad

David Goad — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:08:50 +0000

RE: This goal…
◦Actively contribute daily to the positive, supportive culture that presently exists at Blatant Media. (Haven’t figured out how to make this measurable yet. Any ideas?)

This could be measured by who you attract to the group and who you lose. Recruiting and retention?

Comment on A Significantly Abridged List of My Goals for 2012 by Dale

Dale — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:23:57 +0000

Well said Richard, couldn’t agree more.

Best wishes to you and your family this year. Can’t wait for this time next year to see how we did.

Dale

Comment on A Significantly Abridged List of My Goals for 2012 by Dan Medakovic

Dan Medakovic — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:48:31 +0000

Great set of goals Richard and I’m looking forward to seeing the youtube videos and helping you with any recording advice that you may need!

As for measuring your contributions to the positive culture at work, a monthly bottle of good quality bourbon sent to my home would certainly improve my mental health, as a colleague, of course.

Comment on A Critical Skill We All Need by Saul Carliner

Saul Carliner — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:25:25 +0000

This point is clearly stated

Comment on Creating Sticky Memories by admin

admin — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:26:33 +0000

Dave:

You would be my first choice as a someone with whom I would like to spend an evening in a local pub—Kathleen MacInnes singing in the background—to discuss these types of things.

Yes, I’ve read that song lyrics are stored differently. Because of this, I memorize them (or at least try to) both sung in my head and spoken, like poetry.

I read Daniel Levitin’s (who incidentally teaches up here at McGill) book a number of years ago. Smart guy.

Off to try to track down the HBO documentary.

Hope to meet you face-to-face some day soon. It’s a shame our conversations have only taken place on networks and blogs.

Comment on Creating Sticky Memories by Dave Ferguson

Dave Ferguson — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:30:49 +0000

Song lyrics are apparently stored in your brain in a different way from prose. Likely they're encoded together with the melody, which is why you typically have to sing to yourself to recall all the lyrics. I suspect that other factors (your age, the setting in which you hear or sing the lyrics originally) also influence how strong the storage is. There's a poignant example of this in the HBO documentary The Memory Loss Tapes. A man who can't remember for 10 minutes where his wife and daughter are taking him (a performance of a choral group he was part of) is able to shine onstage, singing with talent and gusto--and immediately after, return to his confusion about where he is and why. Daniel Levitin's This is Your Brain on Music goes into this in entertaining (and research-based) detail.

Comment on The Four Personality Types: Initiators, Blockers, Supporters, and Observers by Futurepants

Futurepants — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:03:48 +0000

@Stephen Downes: Spoken like a true Blocker!