arndt@lymph.DEC (10/18/84)
If you want to climb out of your trench and survey the landscape see: V.Stibic, TOOLS OF THE MIND:TECHNIQUES AND METHODS FOR INTELLECTUAL WORK, North-Holland Pub. Co., N.Y., '82. Abstract: Most professionals gained in their school years and university studies wide background knowledge and through training in their specific fields of science or technology, but were not taught how to study and work efficiently. This book describes the basic techniques and methods of intellectual work: the organization of one's own workplace; the gathering, storage, management and retrieval of information for personal use; the traditional and modern methods of text processing, in particular the practical use of a word processor by a professional for more challenging tasks than simple typing of business correspondence; basic techniques and methods of graphical presentation, and techniques of communication by traditional and new means, including electronic mail and computer conferencing. Suggestions and recommendations on how to employ simple as well as sophisticated tools are demonstrated in a number of examples. The first chapter characterizes the basic principles of efficient personal work, the trends and prospects of development of technical means and their usage, and includes critical remarks and warnings concerning misunder- standing or misuse of the old and new 'tools of the mind'. ------------------------------------ Parts (equipment) dated but on the whole a fun book. Useful too. Rather on a par with Adler's HOW TO READ A BOOK for basic ideas. Go bozos go. Regard, Ken Arndt