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Workshop on Monday »  September 01, 2009    Andy, I just
purchased your book "Pragmatic Thinking and Learning"
--Fantastic book by the way-- Everyone who thinks they are smart
probably could be made smarter by reading it and applying the
principles. Perhaps my father's example might motivate those who
think only L-mode processing is "real thinking" to experiment
with the ideas found in the book. My Dad was a world class
Electronic Engineer. He designed a computer that sat on the
desktop, running a high level language and used a graphical user
interface--in 1967. You may have heard of someone that worked
with him-Alan Kay? Most people would say he was the epitome of
the L-processing rational engineer and yet his breakthroughs
almost always happened when he was asleep. I asked him one time
how he came up with his ideas. He told me he work work on
things, his analogy was "pushing things on the stack," until at
some point he would put down his pen and l