Posts By: Frank Sopper

For those of us with a highly alert audio processing system, our brains are scanning the horizon like radar dishes looking for interesting sounds. It’s a good thing, but it takes a lot of cognitive resource. The scanning is burning attention and energy and can be drawing attention and energy away from other tasks, particularly…

In the Fourth Century, Jerome was the librarian of the library of Alexandria, Egypt, one of the wonders of the ancient world. Jerome was a priest, a scholar, a doctor of the church and a saint. As a saint he’s considered the patron of libraries and librarians.   His comtemporary, Ambrose, Bishop of Rome, is…

Those of us with opposite preferences for the Associative and Sequential information-management systems; and, together or separately, those of us on opposite preferences for the Observer communications system, are at high risk for conflict. We use language differently, represent data differently, give whole categories of information different weights of importance.  In the same way, there…