[TUHS] RIP Robert Taylor

Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com
Fri Apr 13 10:33:18 AEST 2018


On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 10:26:00AM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2018, Lawrence Stewart wrote:
> 
> >Here???s the obit I wrote at the time.
> >http://larry.stewart.org/2017/04/14/bob-taylor/
> 
> Many thanks!  I love this bit:
> 
>     At Xerox, the weekly group meetings were called Dealer, as in Dealer???s
>     choice.  The speaker set the rules.  The culture was for the audience
>     to do their level best to challenge the ideas.  Bob talked about
>     civility, and about the necessity of ???turning type one disagreements
>     into type two disagreements???.  A type two disagreement is where each
>     party understands and can explain the position of the other.
> 
> We can all learn something from that...

Indeed.  The part about fishing the recording out of the core dump was cool
too.

Thanks for that obit Larry, nicely done!



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