Comments on: White space, thinking, speaking, doing http://blog.tarn.org/2009/03/08/white-space-thinking-speaking-doing/ Unpicking traditional assumptions about KM and the life of the law Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:28:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mark Gould http://blog.tarn.org/2009/03/08/white-space-thinking-speaking-doing/#comment-248 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:38:13 +0000 http://blog.tarn.org/?p=246#comment-248 Thanks for the thought-provoking questions Gordon. I think many lawyers would regard white space as outside the flow. In particular, the kind of “staring into space” thinking that the HBS professor liked is apparently devoid of goal or direction, and the lack of tangible output from such activity means that clear and immediate feedback on it is impossible.

]]> By: Gordon Rae http://blog.tarn.org/2009/03/08/white-space-thinking-speaking-doing/#comment-245 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:27:58 +0000 http://blog.tarn.org/?p=246#comment-245 Do lawyers not have Dasein? (Heidegger) Or Flow? (Mihály Csíkszentmihályi)? I bet they do. But they express disdain for “admin” tasks, so it’s hard to elicit their tacit knowledge about their knowledge making process.

I find Heideggerian approaches really useful when studying the work of elite communities of practice, and I’m completely embarrassed to have forgotten who wrote “Computers and Cognition” Winograd and Flores, I think. A geek and a linguist from memory. It’s past my bedtime…

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