One author who has been very influential for me is Joseph Chilton Pearce. Several years back I attended a conference at which he was a prominent speaker. I was fascinated by something he touched on in one of his talks. In utero, each infant develops a particular muscular movement for each phoneme spoken by the mother. Phonemes are the sounds that make up a language, or the basic unit of language. After birth, the infant continues the muscular movements in response to each phoneme, but the movements are so small they aren’t detectable by sight. Although we tend to think of language as something that happens in our head, in the brain and the muscles of our face and mouth, our bodies are involved too, and play a critical role in language development.

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Two Yellow House coaches, Elizabeth Gardner and Nima Dilmaghani, are quoted in a Microsoft case study published this month. The case study covers a cutting-edge software development project which the two engineered. You can read the case study here. Check it out!

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