Ed Boyden of the MIT Media Lab provides a useful list of good cognitive habits, for optimizing “brain resources in an age of complexity.”

How To Think

#1 & #9 on the list are as good a codification of this blog as any, reinforcing Bloom’s Taxonomy - particularly the inverted Cognitive pyramid which builds to “Analyze / Evaluate / Synthesize.”

#5 I have been following while evaluating MBA programs, building course dependency maps in NovaMind.

#6 encapsulates the reason behind the new TSP project I’ve started with TNG.

#7 is my emergent approach to new tasks, although I’ve noticed it most prominently in programming, cooking, and taxes. Getting it wrong first is sometimes the quickest route to learning how to do it right.

Good ideas all!