How to Think Like a Physicist
Join the live session later this week - includes 1 real physicist!
Howdy Doody my friend!
Quick invite. Later this week I’m sitting down with Christine Lindstrom for a live chat on Zoom, about “How to Think Like a Physicist”.
I’d love you to join us live. There’s 1 session, on two dates:
Friday 8 May
NZ - 11:30 AM
Sydney - 9:30 AM
Thursday 7 May
Paris - 1:30 AM
London - 12:30 AM
New York - 7:30 PM (Thursday)
San Francisco - 4:30 PM (Thursday)
Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/A7DGOlQpSY-pBMQ0tLCOig
Here’s the good stuff:
Christine is one of the most pragmatic and clever people I’ve worked with. She’s got a PhD in physics and a Master of Education. She was Associate Professor before she left academia about three years ago for the private sector.
Christine now leads a new approach to content within the “lead with content” initiative at WiseTech (Ian Larson talked this on the podcast a few years back). What she does sits in the Venn diagram between her two qualifications: she thinks like a physicist about how the world works, and like an educator about how people learn.
Did I mention how clever she is?
We will chat about science, how scientists think, and how they solve problems.
And then we’ll talk about what her team does:
They systematically capture their business’s most important knowledge - then shares it.
Capture once. Share thousands of times.
Across thousands of staff.
It’s not just typing.
It isn’t even “writing” in the way most people mean it.
It’s information architecture.
It’s thinking carefully about how people process what they read, how they find information, how they layer understanding on top of understanding.
Most of it is non-obvious until someone shows you.
At the end, we’ll talk about AI. Because AI has made some parts of this radically easier - but only for teams who’ve already done the architectural work. Without the scaffolding, AI just produces faster slop.
Come along. Bring questions.
Clarke
p.s. Christine has promised to explain to me why we need to have two different dates, when there’s only one session.