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Indi Young rated a book it was amazing Occupied Minds by Steve Portigal (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Nathan had me at Chapter 1. It's about the customers. So many orgs fail to understand the complexity and opportunity to support more thinking styles in their market. So many orgs fails to keep learning about where they could go. And in this world of ...more
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Indi Young made a comment on Norbert Boros’s review of Time to Listen: How Giving People Space Drives Invention and Inclusion " The data synthesis is available now, however it's a course instead of a book. I understood from my audience that learning data synthesis is easier wit ...more "
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Indi Young rated a book it was amazing Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind by Annalee Newitz (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I took so many notes! I borrowed the book from the library thinking I would learn how to write stories, but instead it's about how most of the stories we hear in modern society have the intent of changing our behavior or our minds. As a researcher fo ...more
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A perfect partner to the book I read just before this, Black Hills, by Dan Simmons. This one takes place a few years after the Sioux and Cheyenne killed Custer, and then are betrayed and (further) massacred. It is from the perspective of a young blac ...more
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Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind
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A perfect partner to the book I read just before this, Black Hills, by Dan Simmons. This one takes place a few years after the Sioux and Cheyenne killed Custer, and then are betrayed and (further) massacred. It is from the perspective of a young blac A perfect partner to the book I read just before this, Black Hills, by Dan Simmons. This one takes place a few years after the Sioux and Cheyenne killed Custer, and then are betrayed and (further) massacred. It is from the perspective of a young black man, born on Emancipation Day, but into a non-free, heavily threatened life as a sharecropper.

As a boy he sees his respected neighbor, George Washington, killed by the Klux idiots, for "raising his head." His own dad almost gets arrested and killed by the sheriff for trying to vote. So when this young man decides to walk on the boardwalk through town one Sunday, looking the white townspeople in the eye, his life is in danger. His parents and grandmother are in danger because of him. So they tell him to leave. Go North. Enlist in the Army.

He's none too thrilled about the Army, because it means getting shot at. But after nearly two years of walking, he reaches Nebraska. First thing he does is enlist--too tired of being on the go and looking for food. This is when the philosophical part of the book really blooms.

He is part of the calvary, killing buffalo so the native Americans can't eat. He feels horrible about it and thinks about his own grandmother's Seminole heritage. Then he gets sent to Cuba, but not before seeing the Tampa Riot in June 1898, started by some white soldiers from Ohio who shot a black toddler for fun. Then he gets sent to the Philippines to "quell" the locals, which turns out to be the same thing as what they did to the native Americans on the plains, and he hates that. But as a soldier, he has to follow orders.

I am relieved when he's posted to the Presidio in San Francisco. The worst that happens is the population is shocked when they see a black calvary unit escort the President (Teddy Roosevelt, at the time) down Market Street in a parade.

Finally, the poetry begins when he is posted to Yosemite to protect the new national park from poachers, people cutting trees (for firewood), and people grazing sheep. It's where his spirit finally finds its home. Again he hates that he has to escort sheep herders out of the park and separate their flock from them to the other side--just because they have brown skin and can't graze their sheep in the Central Valley (or foothills?) because of the whites.

Yet the other side of it is that he has to ask whites what business they have in the park, and many of them disparage him and his black army patrol. "You'd think that with tall trees leaning down like giants and speaking in whispers, with the wind blowing all the time and as much sky leaning over the trees leaning over me, with all that, you'd think there wouldn't be room left in my head for that fool in his nice suit looking down on me--from a height of more than thirty years. Cause that's how much time has passed since that day and me writing it down. ... just write down [in the daily report] what the man [officer] wants to hear. Good news, cause bad news makes the man angry. Officers like good news. Write it all down. But I remember ... things you couldn't put on paper, as it would be asking too much of something so weak as paper. ... the anger burning in the eyes of that gentleman from San Francisco who didn't appreciate colored soldiers stopping him."

Elijah Yancy feels the beauty of Yosemite opening him up. "... been up in these mountains for months, and mountains are like whiskey. A little bit every day can open you up in ways that are hard to imagine, but a lot every day goes down deep and does things to a man." He meets a native woman and her granddaughter gathering acorns, alone, with none of their family around. He tries to ask, and the woman says, "No one listens to us!" The tribe has been massacred, run out, made ill, just like on the plains.

In telling these stories, the character Elijah (who echoes the author, who is a national park ranger at Yosemite and has been there decades--the first black national park ranger) waxes poetic. "I can remember what came next. I can see the day after that ride into the valley and the day after that, and how all those days and nights overlap in layers, like leaves in the valley in fall after the dogwood and maple trees let go. When you put a shove into the ground, those days and nights and years are all still there, but they've become earth. Everything that once was so full of light, calling you to sit and drowse in it, has dropped to its own shadow." "Before Yosemite, I knew a man needed air to breathe and food to eat and someone to love and a feeling that God was looking out for him. I thought that was it. But you also need something else that don't often get mentioned. Anyone, man, woman, or mule, needs beauty." Elijah Yancy, a soldier, can't let go of the beauty of the place, and beauty helps him live past all the hatreds that he encounters. ...more

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	Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior 3.87 avg rating — 1,076 ratings — published 2008 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Practical Empathy 3.83 avg rating — 318 ratings — published 2015 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Time to Listen: How Giving People Space Drives Invention and Inclusion 4.29 avg rating — 21 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Time to Listen: How Giving People Space to Speak Drives Invention and Inclusion by Indi Young (Goodreads Author), Anna Iurchenko (Illustrator), Zulaikha Rahman (Foreword) 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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