Tag Archives: distributed cognition

Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers

I decided to pick up this book, Outliers, when I was waiting for my flight to SFO this past weekend, and before I returned home, I had finished it! It was an interesting and easy read (largely due to its interestingness).
I most appreciated how the ideas in Outliers echo the theory of distributed cognition, but [...]

Summary of Reboot10 talk: Distributed Cognition & The Social Web

Last week I decided to give (=was coerced into giving) a talk at Reboot10. I was apprehensive about talking because I didn’t know what to expect from this audience and felt I wouldn’t have anything interesting to say that they’d like to hear about! Well, I pondered this for a little while and realized that [...]