Pace Smith is a spiritual idealist entrepreneur, a passionate world-changer, and a paradigm shifter. She is the co-leader of the Connection Revolution.
Pace on the web
Pace @ Connection Revolution
Pace is a co-blogger at Connection Revolution, where she blogs about changing the world, communication, ethical entrepreneurship, and how to be awesome.
Pace @ the Usual Error Project
Pace is a co-presenter of the Usual Error Project series of workshops on communication and problem solving for a better life.
Pace @ Amazon
Pace and Kyeli co-authored a book, The Usual Error: Why We Don't Understand Each Other and 34 Ways to Make It Better.
Pace is a co-blogger at Connection Revolution, where she blogs about changing the world, communication, ethical entrepreneurship, and how to be awesome.
Pace @ the Usual Error Project
Pace is a co-presenter of the Usual Error Project series of workshops on communication and problem solving for a better life.
Pace @ Amazon
Pace and Kyeli co-authored a book, The Usual Error: Why We Don't Understand Each Other and 34 Ways to Make It Better.
Books Pace has enjoyed recently
Connection Revolution blog
Pace's views on separating personal life and professional image
(psst! she thinks it's bullshit!)
A common practice in the business world is to separate one's business persona from one's personal life. To some extent, I agree with this -- for example, people I do business with don't need to know about my sex life. (Kindly ignore for the moment that I'm married to my boss.) But I don't want to separate my business "me" from my personal "me". That sort of thinking leads to separating one's business ethics from one's personal ethics, and if I did that, why would anyone ever trust me?
I'm proud of my life, I'm proud of my values, and I'm proud of the way my values are reflected in the way I live my life. I'm proud of what I do for a living, and I'm proud of the way my values are reflected in the way we do business. See how these things are related? I want to cut past all the layers of "image", "making a good impression", and "saving face" in the business world. It's all bullshit! The real me is good enough; I don't need a "professional image" to hide behind. I just want to be me, openly and honestly, and let that speak for itself.
I'm proud of my life, I'm proud of my values, and I'm proud of the way my values are reflected in the way I live my life. I'm proud of what I do for a living, and I'm proud of the way my values are reflected in the way we do business. See how these things are related? I want to cut past all the layers of "image", "making a good impression", and "saving face" in the business world. It's all bullshit! The real me is good enough; I don't need a "professional image" to hide behind. I just want to be me, openly and honestly, and let that speak for itself.
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Pace's recent bookmarks
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Pace's academic publications
Pace Reagan Smith is, among many other things, a researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Here is a list of her AI-related publications, one of which she presented at AAAI 2005 in the workshop on Contexts and Ontologies. Some of her publications were under her maiden name, Pace Reagan.
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Guiding Inference with Policy Search Reinforcement Learning
In press; in Proceedings of the Twentieth International FLAIRS Conference, Key West, FL, May 2007.
Matthew E. Taylor, C. Matuszek, P. Reagan Smith, M. Witbrock. -
First-Orderized ResearchCyc: Expressivity and Efficiency in a Common-Sense Ontology
In Papers from the AAAI Workshop on Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice and Applications. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 2005.
Deepak Ramachandran, P. Reagan, K. Goolsbey. -
Representing Knowledge Gaps Effectively
In D. Karagiannis, U. Reimer (Eds.): Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management, Proceedings of PAKM 2004, Vienna, Austria, December 2-3, 2004, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg.
Alan Belasco, J. Curtis, RC Kahlert, C. Klein, C. Mayans, P. Reagan.
Leave a comment for Pace!
I'd love to hear your opinion on the books I've read recently, or anything else you have to say. (:
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Lori
Nov 9, 2008 @ 6:36 pm | delete
- Hi Pace!
This is Lori from Triiibes. I just was listening to Naomi at IttyBiz's video on "Why We're Broke" and was delighted to hear her talk about you and Kyeli. It was wonderful publicity for your services. Your "Usual Errors" site looks great right now.
Take care!
Lori
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RCA
Sep 17, 2008 @ 7:46 am | delete
- I stumbled across your blog, paceandkyeli.com, and was fascinated by your story(ies). I can't wait to see your book.
Something you said above resonated with me. You said, "That sort of thinking leads to separating one's business ethics from one's personal ethics..." I would contend that ethics can't be classified into gradients of appropriateness like that.
A Harvard Review article a few years ago was titled, "There is No Such Thing as Business Ethics." The point of the article was that ethics has no boundaries and no "appropriateness." Ethics are static and can not be turned on or off, can not be morphed to suit a purpose, and do not allow one to choose their applicability.
This proposition was a breath of fresh air for me as it not only flew in the face of conventional "wisdom" and pop culture, but it also affirmed my own beliefs about ethics.
No room here to elaborate. If interested:
http://thehillcountryview.blogspot.com/2007/12/maleability-of-ethics.html
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