A couple of months ago I watched the movie "City of Ember." In Ember, career development is pretty simple: on graduation day at school, the mayor presents each student a bag from which they pull job choices. Into the bag goes the exact jobs needed by the city - for examples, two messengers, one clerk, three janitors. And then the students just pull the jobs from the bag.

There is no unemployment in ember, and there is no risk that you will train for an occupation that will experience a downturn… Continue

I was reading an old issue of WIRED magazine, and came across an article on the movie "Late Fragment" - an interactive movie. The movie is like one of those old "choose your own adventure books"; as you watch the movie, you take control of it with your remote. And how the movie unfolds, and your understanding of characters actions and motivations, entirely depends on when you click. As the article states, "Because the truth is, our perception of stories and characters shifts as we learn more abo… Continue

Be afraid - be very afraid. What do you get when you cross objectivist assessments with YouTube? Typexperience.com - a website devoted to videos about personality types. From videos about assessments (DISC, MBTI, and Enneagram seem to be the most popular) to videos about how to use personality information, an entire website devoted entirely to figuring out what makes humans tick. As a constructivist, I kind of like it, because I think holding a magnifyi… Continue