For any person wishing to carry a mapper's strengths into the workplace, the life and work of the physicist Richard Feynman is worth studying. He told stories. The Spencers' Warbler was a bird identified for him by his father. The name was made up. His father then made up names for the bird in many other languages, and pointed out that young Feynman knew no more than when he started. Rote-learning names of things means nothing. Only looking at what the bird itself is doing tells one anything about it.

He was utterly honest and saw through artificial complexity by always insisting on simplicity and facts. See his personal version of The Challenger Report, contained in his book What Do You Care What Other People Think?.

He used simple, humorous, curious language, filled with little pictures and enthusiasm. His techniques for puncturing pomposity were unrestrained.

His Lectures on Computation have recently been published, and are worth reading, as is everything he ever published, from Six Easy Pieces, to the Red Book Lectures. James Gleik's Genius and the Gribben's Richard Feynman are rewarding biographies.

Get hold of his stuff and read it.

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