I just bought a white board for to-do list purposes. Here is my to do list for tomorrow:
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There are many things in life that, despite being completely ridiculous, are extremely popular and widely believed. If you thought that people channeling aliens from alternate dimensions to help our species join the interstellar alliance was strange, wait until you get a load of homeopathy. The point here isn't that homeopathy ...
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Feynman said that there are no miracle people, and anyone can do what he did if they put their mind to it (my thoughts here). Yet there's one domain in which Feynman clearly had a natural gift in -- curiosity! This is exemplified by the little experiments he describes in ...
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Alan Wallace, a Buddhist and writer on consciousness and meditation, talks about what he sees as the dogmatism and idolatry of the current, materialistic scientific paradigm. While I have some questions about materialism that no one has been able to answer, I don't agree that the focus materialism is a ...
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Marcus Buckingham says there is a question that you can use to predict, with a high degree of accuracy, whehter a person is on a high performing team or a poor performing team in the workplace. This is: "At work, do you have an opportunity to do what you do ...
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Rory Sutherland gave this interesting speech at TEDxOxford. It doesn't seem to have a common thread which builds up to a conclusion or supports and overall point, but the general thread is about human decision making and its associated irrationality. Sutherland doesn't pull punches, and he has strong opinions. Here ...
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Nicholas Carr's book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains was a finalist for a Pulizer Prize in 2011, and he discusses some of the ideas from his book below. He starts with a good overview of neuroplasticity and learning in general, and then applies this to ...
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Self-help guru channels an alien being from another dimension to talk about Star Trek. Brace yourselves people, it’s about to get weird.
0 CommentIn the last post about this I suggested that Anka is a Trekkie fanatic with an overactive imagination, not a man able to channel alien spirits, but a techno-utopian fantasist who put his fantasies to work in making money for him. He's even worked on a few Star Trek movies ...
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