Marthy Berg

  • Marthy Berg's profile was updated 4 years, 10 months ago

  • Marthy Berg's profile was updated 4 years, 10 months ago

  • Marthy Berg's profile was updated 4 years, 11 months ago

  • Marthy Berg's profile was updated 4 years, 11 months ago

  • Marthy Berg's profile was updated 5 years ago

  • Marthy Berg posted a new activity comment 5 years ago

    @melanie
    We’re constantly feeding our advice monsters, and they’re insatiable. As soon as somebody starts talking, your advice monster looms up and goes “Oh, I’m going to add some value to this conversation, yes I am!” You need to learn to tame your advice monster, and in order to tame it, you have to understand it.

    • Marthy Berg posted an update in the group Society 5 years ago

      My advice monster was delighted !
      She started telling me what was going on, and I started to pretend to listen because, quite frankly, my advice monster already knew exactly what I wanted to tell her.
      Finally, she finished so I was able to share my brilliant advice — — and make no mistake it was brilliant. But my advice went nowhere; my adv…[Read more]

      • The problem isn’t with giving advice. Instead, the problem is when giving advice becomes our default response. There are three ways that advice giving goes bad.
          • @melanie
            We’re constantly feeding our advice monsters, and they’re insatiable. As soon as somebody starts talking, your advice monster looms up and goes “Oh, I’m going to add some value to this conversation, yes I am!” You need to learn to tame your advice monster, and in order to tame it, you have to understand it.
        • Marthy Berg posted a new activity comment 5 years ago

          Chess engines made a pretty fast evolution from funny programs to unbeatable monsters. None of us, humans, can stand a chance against… We play with them, we learn from them. One day they will solve chess as a game.

          • Marthy Berg posted a new activity comment 5 years ago

            @jason Thanks for sharing this.Your talk really touched my heart.

            • Marthy Berg joined the group Society 5 years ago