If Leonardo da Vinci and Thomas Edison were alive today, what best practices and wisdom would they impart? An interview with Michael J. Gelb, bestselling author of How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci and Innovate Like Edison provides insights. READ»
It sure looks like public trust and confidence in government in the United States are suffering. Indeed, Americans in large numbers today seem not only to distrust but also resent their government. And I'm not just ...READ»
John Mackey, the Libertarian CEO of Whole Foods, says not to worry: Capitalism and the invisible hand will cure the world's ills. But isn't it a little late to start believing in magic?READ»
Do we learn differently from electronic paper than real books? The New York Times set out to understand the question by polling a group of experts. Does e-paper make it harder to focus? Harder to think and learn?
"Initially, any ...READ»
Do we learn differently from electronic paper than real books? The New York Times set out to understand the question by polling a group of experts. Does e-paper make it harder to focus? Harder to think and learn?
"Initially, any ...READ»
There are two ways for me to practice virtue. The first is to find people who I believe can reveal it to me. The second is to it myself because my heart is true. I prefer second approach, the "self-directed virtue" ...READ»
Whether people call her Pink or P!nk bothers me none. She may not be everybody's cup of tea, but P!nk I can drink given the right place and the right circumstance, mainly because in the world commercial pop, she sits at the ...READ»
What is there left to say about the King that has not been said, other
than the music he left behind is as immortal as anything that be dared
be called immortal. "My Way" is an obvious song for the independent of
mind but a ...READ»
Whenever I am in Washington DC, I make a point of always visiting three points of interest. The first port of call is the Jefferson Memorial because I have a great affinity with the Founding Fathers and how they created an entire ...READ»
Half through another set of "Twenty Tweets" I realized that it was an endless process and that it can have no end to it. So 140mph replaces it, much more sensible and more appropriate to my discovery goals. 140mph plays ...READ»
I can never say I have applied the finishing touches to an emergent process but there is a functionality born of just playful enthusiasm as well as just letting words and actions go with the tiny cord serving as a restraint called ...READ»
There is something about Helmut Newton's pictures that have this raw power built into them. Photography is a class on its own in terms of how it enables us to look at our own world. Online, Dominic Kamp is one individual ...READ»
Generally the theme for this latest Twenty Tweets is "connection" but randomness is a powerful disruptor, what these Twenty Tweets enable me to do is to study the contents of my own brain juice - when we see evidence of the spills of ...READ»
Coldplay is cool in any weather. This is one band that has made the bridge between mass popularity and the discerning thinker or imaginative fool. They are a truly all-weather band in terms of the imaginative possibilities ...READ»
I took an early morning stroll to Adaptive Path. While I do not hold to attachment theory (and why should the 21st Century still be about what it is we are connected to), it is always a great joy for me to see unadulterated ...READ»
20 reasons why people should not be following my tweets - not including the actual fact that twitter has exasparated my poor sleep habits, it gives me one more excuse to go to bed at 4am ...? The reasons given below are ...READ»
From the third tweet onwards, the tweets are a replay of what I was saying in my meatspace diary exactly one year ago, interesting to see it as a retrospective, but really finding a way to retain continuity in tweeting as work and ...READ»
Nelly Furtado's "Try" is for every mother who is the unsung of hero of the home, "Try" is for every home carer who manages day after day to support an infirmed loved one, "Try" is for every child that has to meet unrealistic parental ...READ»
Four compass points have emerged in Freedom Oasis during these final days of July.TWENTY TWEETSTweeting to my blog may not be usual business but it is practical for my own purposes. What I learned since initiating Twenty Tweets ...READ»
Free speech may have the word "free" in it, but its upto me to figure out what "free" really means. Free to me means both having the freedom to change ones own thoughts and while it's instructive to listen to the freedom message ...READ»
I can see why world leaders would meet with a person like Bono while there would be others who would be on the other side of the love-hate relationship and utterly oppose a guy like him. As for me, all I can see (without ...READ»
Boxing may be going through a great downturn lately but it is also a reservoir for life perspectives. I am looking forward to a movie due for release in April 2010 about the life of german boxer Max Schmeling. Without him ...READ»
I will try to apply a context and see if it works over time. This involves a proposition about "Five Elevations of Me". I can begin with ME which is obviously the person typing this or should I say thinking out aloud ...READ»
