The insanity of where we're at today planning for a future when we don't know what to expect tomorrow. It's about education and our muddle. How does one manage to go to the next step?

The Swedish academician does a marvelous job of showing what all the countries of the world have been doing over the last century. What progress during our lifetimes!

Fonts are interesting and communicate quite subtly. Check out this video on the Swiss font Helvetica -- a 'sans serif' which can be found everywhere. It's clean, unpretentious, quite elegant, and controversial.

Welcome to Steve Iman's Drupal Playground at OBInc.US. This is a website primarily for students of Steve Iman's classes at Cal Poly Pomona.

The site uses "Drupal", free software available from an open source community. It's pretty flexible. For now we'll be running a Video Carnival. Commenting and rating are great ways of getting yourself involved!

In order to register to this website, please "create new account" at the right. You'll receive email once it's been verified that you're a student enrolled in one of Steve's courses. When registering, PLEASE USE YOUR CAL POLY USERNAME AND YOUR CAL POLY EMAIL ADDRESS so that Steve might be able to award you credit for your contributions at this website.

Please note that creating an account at this "Drupal" is NOT the same thing as creating an account for yourself at our course MOODLE.

Others with an interest in previewing this website should feel free to contact sciman [at] csupomona [dot] edu (Steve ) with a request for registration.

Steve Jobs on Life. Why go to college when there's so much to learn? Why not find the beauty of script? How do you deal with getting fired? It's devastating when you screw up that badly, but if you still live what you did, you can get about starting over. Don't settle unless you love what you're doing. Only you decide. What would it be like to go with the intensity involved in being willing to die that day? Think about it every morning.

Tony's message about motivation and life comes at blinding speed, though replaying it and sorting it out can be worthwhile. We all know pretty well the science of achievement and now that works -- setting goals and going for it. But the problem is to achieve Transformation. Robbins sketches out common sorts of needs (an interesting list), and then clarifies that it's our maps of the world that shape us profoundly. We have more or less common needs, but have different models of belief about how to get them met.

A presentation by Daniel Pink which covers research and the core concepts of his book on "Drive". Corporations and economists often focus on extrinsic rewards rather than the 3rd drive (higher needs, intrinsic needs) with huge consequences. Daniel collects some of the relevant studies and makes broad generalizations which are supportable by broader literature.

Pink is a popular new offer.. future guru. He's looking for excitement among managers by talking about motivation. Basically he's playing with distinctions between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. He thinks (vastly oversimplifying in the service of having something which seems manageable), Pink thinks there are two kinds of people; those who are motivated extrinsically, and those intrinsically. It's intrinsic motivation, he suggests that's the preferred route for motivating people -- particularly in knowledge work.