This morning I published a post on SXSW over on the Scholarly Kitchen. Here’s an excerpt: Sometimes you need to magnify something to see it clearly, and Elon Musk is the magnification of curiosity, exploration, and optimism. He described everything from the thruster problem that delayed the space station docking of the SpaceX Dragon capsule, to… Read More
Are you managing your to do list or is it managing you?
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We’re all busy. For me, a small and rapidly expanding business takes up most of my time. It’s both exciting and exhausting. For you it might be the same or it might be a demanding position with a more traditional employment agreement. It doesn’t matter. My epiphany this weekend was that it is NOT only… Read More
Learning is hard. It takes time, effort, and engagement. It’s the payoff that keeps us going. Unfortunately, like exercise or dieting, in many cases learning has been institutionalized as drudgery. What’s worse is that for those of us over 35 or 40 we learned how to learn in a way that took all the fun… Read More
Xfinity Remote app does several things right
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Image by Gare and Kitty via Flickr Ever seem to bump into a phrase repeatedly? For the past three years I keep hearing about “the edge becoming the middle” and every time I do it’s in a new context, with a similar yet different meaning. The first time I heard this phrase was in a… Read More
Kent Anderson reviewed Jaron Lanier's book over on the Scholarly Kitchen: I started Jaron Lanier’s recent book, “You Are Not a Gadget,” skeptical of his initial opinions. His complaints about standardization and today’s limiting philosophy of information technology didn’t impress me at first — after all, we had to embrace standards around electricity, electromagnetic spectrum… Read More
Cover via Amazon One of my favorite quotes in the movie The Princess Bride is Inigo Montoya’s response to Fezzini’s use of the word “Inconceivable!” Fezzini: Inconceivable! Inigo: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. I often feel like Inigo when I’m listening to people talk… Read More