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111: Thermodynamics of Emotion with Thomas Perry
01:30 – Tom’s Superpower: Hot Toddies, Eccentricity, and Talking to Animals!
04:42 – Observing Animal vs Humans Behavior and Organizational Restructuring
10:25 – Looking For Genuine Change, Empowering Workers, and the Conflation of the terms Boss and Manager
Adrian Bejan: The Constructal Law
Your Dog Is Your Mirror: The Emotional Capacity of Our Dogs and Ourselves by Kevin Behan
23:20 – Flow and How it Moves Through Systems
33:45 – Predictive and Explanatory Power
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
37:40 – Breaking Things Down
43:37 – Alignment in Appetite and Emotion
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
52:08 – Defining Quality
01:02:21 – Emotional Metaphors and Sensory Inputs
DevOpsDays Boston 2017- Your Emotional API by John Sawers
Reflections:
Jessica: When the language gets woo-ey, the ideas might be new-y.
Rein: Quality is individual and personal. It is subjective and intersubjective.
Thomas: The best ideas are often found in uncomfortable places.
John: Systems of living things are living systems.
Janelle: Don’t assume you understand anything immediately when you walk into a room. Let that understanding be emergent through the process of observation.
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Special Guest: Thomas Perry.