Selby Evans is Thinkerer Melville in Second Life
Un: Or what passes for work with this team.
Vulcan: The Boss wants us to explain what the Mulling Team does.
Un: Nothing. Just mulls.
Engineer: The job of the Mulling Team is to mull over problems and come up with ideas about solving them.
Un: The Mulling Team leaves the problems unfixed.
Networker: Fixing is the work of other teams. Mulling just gets ideas. Like brainstorming.
Un: But without the crowd.
Empath: We are the crowd.
Vulcan: We start with the general objective from the Boss.
Hunter: The objective is always to get ideas about solving a problem.
Vulcan: The objective on this occasion is to explain what the Mulling Team does.
Canter: You can’t say that the Mulling Team does anything. It just gets ideas.
Un: Ideas are not nothing.
Engineer: Especially if you write them down.
Vulcan: They become a list of ideas.
Un: The way to have one good idea is to have many ideas to choose from.
Networker: The song of the Thinkerer,
Vulcan: Or of anyone who knows the trick of producing many ideas.
Networker: Mulling is one such trick.
Un: Brainstorming is another.
Vulcan: Irrelevant. One is enough.
Un: If it produces enough ideas. Different ideas come from different viewpoints.
Engineer: The Mulling Team has different viewpoints.
Un: The viewpoints point in many directions.
Empath: Some people feel that mulling goes nowhere.
Hunter: It does get off track. We try to keep the target in focus.
Un: It is hard to mull and focus at the same time.
Hunter: Focus works best when you already know where you are going.
Un: If you already know where you are going, you don’t need to mull.
Hunter: If you need to mull, you don’t know where you are going.
Un: There is a time to mull and a time to focus.
Networker: And a time to know what time it is.
Un: That time is always now.
Silence
Head Talk
Conversations in the head
Ideator
What's the big idea?
Problem-Solving
A problem lets you show what you can do.