February 2012
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January 2012
9 posts
“Be curious, not judgmental.”
– Walt Whitman
WatchVery inspiring. But I wonder how applicable this is for the next gen knowledge worker who combines work, life and play successfully in everyday life? How would the new model look like?
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“Think in the morning, act in the noon, read in the evening, and sleep at night.”
– —William Blake
Very wise advice!
Early Onset of Night: I recommend you fucking do... →
early-onset-of-night:
Write. Art. Sing. Dance. Pick up that guitar and never put it down. Life is too short to worry about money or security. If you had it, what then? What to strive for? There’s a reason every band’s early albums are better than their later ones: HUNGER. How can you sing honestly, meaningfully about…
Now this is real, authentic passion from the heart for the mind, body...
“Infinite patience brings immediate results”
– Wayne Dyer
“Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for non-activity,...”
– Leisure: The Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper
December 2011
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“My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended...”
– RIP Christopher Hitchens
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“Relentlessly focus. Prune your message and your list and build a reputation...”
– Wise words from Seth Godin in “The trap of social media noise”.
“Obama has not been everything I’ve wanted him to be but he’s sure a...”
– Quote by Tom Bordeaux (Georgia Democrat}
I think I share this sentiment with millions of Americans. Very much the same situation that Reagan was in in 1984, the first time I lived in California. Republicans obviously hate that comparisons but they don’t have much credibility in this election...
November 2011
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“As a result of epochal shift of power in the marketplace from seller to buyer,...”
– The new paradigm shift explained simply by Clayton Christensen
“If you want to change a system, you have to disrupt the resources on which the...”
– @umairh
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“The study found that getting parents involved with their children’s learning at...”
– “How About Better Parents?”, New York Times November 20, 2011
Started reading The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow... →
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“On the other side of fear there is freedom”
October 2011
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WatchAmazing! #AlisonGopnik: What do babies think?
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#windowseat
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“I’m not the sort of person who likes a lot of competition. I particularly don’t...”
– I tip my hat to Nobelist Jack Szostak in “From Telomeres to The Origin of Life”.
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“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism”
– Howard Zinn (from the article “Use of force in international affairs”, 1961)
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Punk Rock Manifesto: Like most people I’m pissed...
Like most people I’m pissed off. But not in the entitled, tea-bagger-kind-of-way with the infantile idea that we should all be free to do what the hell we like just cause we were born in the 40s, did drugs, lost Vietnam, carry a gun, went to Church and then made a shitload of money riding the coat-tail of 80’s liberalism and 90’s deregulation.
Nah, I’m pissed off at how...
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The Future of Books?
Books are the physical results of quintessential human creativity: an original idea. And for 500 years these ideas were spread through books; printed static stories on paper, marketed and sold via bookstores and newspapers. The pricing model was based on production costs and the supply chain consisted of several layers of filters. Filters based on the perception of what is good quality and...
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