{"id":365,"date":"2014-12-07T12:50:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T17:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/?p=365"},"modified":"2014-12-07T12:50:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T17:50:21","slug":"jeneral-finds-week-2014-12-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/?p=365","title":{"rendered":"Jeneral finds of the week: 2014-12-07"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good\/interesting\/provoking finds\u00a0I\u2019ve stumbled across this week: 2014-12-07.<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Effectively managing people and their motivations goes beyond the ideas of Maslov&#8217;s Hierarchy of Needs. This <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2014\/11\/what-maslows-hierarchy-wont-tell-you-about-motivation\">article in the Harvard Business Review<\/a> outlines a better framework using\u00a0three universal psychological needs: autonomy, relatedness, and competence. Methinks this applies well to parenting our children too!<\/li>\n<li>One to add to the pile of &#8220;mandatory media lessons&#8221; for our kids. This TED talk that uses Greek mythology to\u00a0frame\u00a0the idea of permanence of all our social media content we happily provide.\u00a0[ted id=1730]<\/li>\n<li>A fun one: a 9 min dissertation on how to make action comedy movies based on\u00a0the wisdom and\u00a0collected works\u00a0of Jackie Chan\u00a0[su_youtube url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z1PCtIaM_GQ&#8221; width=&#8221;480&#8243; height=&#8221;300&#8243;] Actually, all the videos in Tony Zhou&#8217;s &#8220;Every Frame a Painting&#8221; channel are entertaining and instructive in the form and craft\u00a0of filmmaking. (yes, I admit to watching all 12 of them).<\/li>\n<li>We put up Christmas lights outside the house this weekend, which reminded me about this fascinating article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2011\/12\/the-chinese-town-that-turns-your-old-christmas-tree-lights-into-slippers\/250190\/\">where old Christmas lights go to get\u00a0recycled<\/a>, at least back in 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2014\/12\/ew-feelings\/383475\/\">article from the Atlantic<\/a> gives some high level outcomes from research on the health benefits of people journalling introspective\u00a0thoughts (i.e. not neutral comments such as &#8220;it is sunny today&#8221;). Is this why I&#8217;ve been truly enjoying the effort over the past couple of months since starting the blog?<\/li>\n<li>The same Atlantic article then covers\u00a0a new app called &#8220;Emojiary&#8221; that aims to train people via push text notifications and gamification to get themselves into the habit of documenting one self-evaluating thought a day, even if it is just using an\u00a0emoticon. Sure there are concerns about the privacy of data collected and\u00a0any potential future nefarious use of this data by business (i.e. for advertising). But we are now in a world where we are constantly connected to streams of information, and\u00a0our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HffWFd_6bJ0#t=41\">brains are changing to adapt\u00a0to it<\/a>.\u00a0We should at least consider any tool that can\u00a0help ground people with some true self-reflection, no matter how slight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>~Jen<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Jeneral findings of the week: 2014-11-30\" href=\"http:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/2014\/11\/jeneral-findings-week-2014-11-30\/\">&lt;&#8211;Previous week&#8217;s finds<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good\/interesting\/provoking finds\u00a0I\u2019ve stumbled across this week: 2014-12-07.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[97,238,391],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jeneral-findings","tag-curriculum","tag-motivation","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/clothespins-e1474432379380.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}