Living in Multiple Worlds (1)
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This article was was written by Jamais Cascio in March 2006. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. There's a theory in cognitive science that suggests that one of the hallmarks of human consciousness is the ability to model another person's thoughts in one's own brain, and do so with reasonable accuracy. It's not simply being able to read expressions, although that's part of it; humans can imagine how another person's ...
The 7 Creativity Tools for When You are Stuck (2)
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There is a lot written about creativity. What is it? How can we develop it? Can it be measured and managed? An increasing amount of discussion in the business community is directed towards the topic of creativity. Many a blogger or speaker package common sense under some combination of productivity and creativity and feed idea roughage to the masses. The so-called knowledge economy relies on creative thought to add value. Without innovation, much of the ...
The Future of the U.S. Military: An Interview with Thomas P.M. Barnett (1)
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This Worldchanging Interview with Thomas P.M. Barnett was conducted by Alex Steffen in December of 2004. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. Prof. Thomas P.M. Barnett, Senior Strategic Researcher at the U.S. Naval War College, is maybe the hottest military thinker in the world right now. His work, which focuses on the connections between development and security, and in particular his book, Pentagon's New Map, has become deeply influential with ...
Global Guerrillas: JOURNAL: Why Community Resilience? (4)
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Here's the question: what's the connection between local food, local power, and other forms community resilience to fourth generation warfare? The answer is simple. A government's legitimacy is based on its ability to deliver basic services. The ability to deliver these services is the difference between a failed/hollow state (see this post on what a failed state is, although I would argue food/power is tied with security in first position) and a functional/strong one. States ...
Your Creative Genius Mindset: The Essential Qualities for “Outside the Box” Thinking (19)
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Click on the IQ Matrix image to view larger version. To be creative, is to have the capacity to think freely, openly, without limitations or constraints about problems and challenges confronting our life reality. When we are creative, we tend to see opportunities and possibilities that we would normally filter out of our personal experience. Creativity allows us to think outside of the box, around the box and through the box in an imaginative and ...
Task Recorder Version1 (1)
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I’ve made my first iteration of a program to record my tasks (genesis here). J-walk suggested: Create a bunch of general work-oriented categories. Then, when the timer goes off, have XL display a Userform that lets you allocate the last hour by percent in each category. Even if you’re away from your desk when the timer goes off, the code can determine the time since the last entry and adjust. Good idea, but I have ...
6 Questions to Ask Yourself to Get the Most Out of Life (53)
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“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” - Abraham Lincoln I love reading lists of things to do before you die, but after reading several of these lists, I’ve realized that each list is a very personal thing. It can only apply to the writer of the list, and not to all human beings in general. No such list can do that. And ...
Military analyst warns of coming 'climate wars' unless global warming is reversed // Current (1)
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Military analyst warns of coming 'climate wars' unless global warming is reversed // Current Bookmark added by Ralph Mercer at 07:48 PM CDT Current TV story, Military analyst warns of coming 'climate wars' unless global warming is reversed, posted by love_is_my_religion, The prospect of global wars driven by
The Two Faces of Economic Reporting (1)
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GDP up, incomes down. Why bother reporting about GDP at all? This just cheeses me off. Yesterday, the US government released figures showing that GDP grew at an annualized pace of 3.3%. The implicit message: Yippee, we're not in a recession! The press, of course, ate it up. AP crowed: "The U.S. economy grew in the spring at a 3.3 percent pace. The best gross domestic product results in nearly a year beat Wall Street's ...
11 Free Mind Mapping Applications &038; Web Services - Stepcase Lifehack (63)
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Mind mapping is a way of taking notes, capturing ideas, exploring concepts and breaking down information into a more readily understood format. It’s a place where visual representations and written representations of things merge to create something that is more natural to the mind; it works with and represents the way we think, where as paragraph-based text is not representative of the thought process at all. There are a million and one uses for mind ...
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James said:
I tried the Mind42. It is a great tool for quick mind maps and sharing mindmaps.
Google Results for X Girls, Y Cups (3)
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Some will find this amusing while others won't get it at all. If you don't get it, consider yourself lucky. Have a good weekend, everyone. [Thanks, Canna]
Twittering Away the Day (1)
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The twitter experiment is now over. I used Tweetake to get my tweets into a CSV, which I then opened in Excel. I tried to post every 1/2 hour. At the time of the post, I’d write what I did since the last post. Since I usually did more than one thing, I had to split each entry. My plan was to split the tasks evenly among the time. That is, if I did three ...
WaPo Continues To Ignore the Facts (1)
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Less than two months ago we told you about how the Washington Post is skewed way off base on American manufacturing. This week I missed another WaPo farce, but luckily our friend Don Boudreaux at Cafe Hayek noticed it and responded. First a brief quote (sorry, all I can stomach) from the WaPo article.Just as the ghost dance of the Sioux failed to bring back the buffalo, so the declining dollar and the high price ...
The uncanny valley (30)
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Tom points us to this fascinating concept. It's called the uncanny valley and it goes back as far as Freud. When you get too good at faking it, people freak out. We love cute dogs, cute monkeys, clairvoyant websites, smart voice mail systems. But we get totally wigged out when a website knows too much about us, when we start talking to a voice mail attendant like she's a real person or when a photo ...
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pfostpfilms said:
ok so i love seth godin, but i'm sharing this for the picture. CREEPY.
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Ullash said:
so wat does this mean?? CRM is effectively only upto a certain point ? and who defines that point
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colladude said:
mmm
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billspaced said:
THAT IS FREAKY
CHANGE, we do seek (2)
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Barack Obama has made a really inspiring speech last night. I was moved by the speech as well as by his personality. No matter whatever, a black president candidate himself is already a change. But it is not enough. America does need more changes than a real black president. When US people are moving into a new age that the ancestors have never imagined, however, they are facing the restoration of the spirit of their ...
The Zen Habits Twitterbot Challenge, Plus Two Ebooks (7)
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OK, if you’re a programmer/coder/techie type, I’ve got a challenge for you. After using Twitter for more than a week (follow me here), I’ve really grown to like the Twitterific app for the Mac. It has a really nice little interface, and scanning through new updates is easy. I decided that I’d like to get notifications of new emails and RSS posts right inside of Twitter, so that I can get all my updates in ...
Everyday Lean: Lean and Kleenex (2)
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By Andy Wagner:I know how much Mark dislikes headlines that rhyme with lean, but perhaps he'll make an exception for this example of everyday lean:At a hotel this weekend, somewhere between my first and second Kleenex, I realized, just barely, that something had changed. It was so subtle that at first I thought I was imagining things, but I wasn't. The first tissue was white. The second was yellow. (See below--the difference is subtle and ...
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