Interesting Times
Jun. 16th, 2009 11:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
f4f3I took an afternoon off today to go off and do some professional development. Given my perilous position as a consultant, I don't get paid for time off, and consequently take such things seriously
This afternoon's session was at Oran Mor, just round the corner from home, and I thought, "hell, at least I can stay on afterwards and get pished, even if the session is crap."
It turned out not to be crap:
Professor Barry Schwartz turned out to be a very savvy chappie. I'd read and enjoyed his paper on "The Tyranny of Choice", and agree with many of his conclusions that once you go beyond a certain level of choice it becomes a burden rather than an opportunity, but I hadn't had time to do much more than skim his new work on Practical Wisdom and, for want of a better word, the remoralisation of the professions. I can't say I agreed with everything that he said, but it certainly made sure that I'll be searching this out again, for the first time in 25 year.
There was much chat afterwards in Oran Mor's beer garden, then Marie and I went and got pished. So it all worked out fine, then.
This afternoon's session was at Oran Mor, just round the corner from home, and I thought, "hell, at least I can stay on afterwards and get pished, even if the session is crap."
It turned out not to be crap:
Professor Barry Schwartz turned out to be a very savvy chappie. I'd read and enjoyed his paper on "The Tyranny of Choice", and agree with many of his conclusions that once you go beyond a certain level of choice it becomes a burden rather than an opportunity, but I hadn't had time to do much more than skim his new work on Practical Wisdom and, for want of a better word, the remoralisation of the professions. I can't say I agreed with everything that he said, but it certainly made sure that I'll be searching this out again, for the first time in 25 year.
There was much chat afterwards in Oran Mor's beer garden, then Marie and I went and got pished. So it all worked out fine, then.
