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Monthly Archives: August 2013
Rebecca Solnit · Diary
2013.08.31 – 01:01
Rebecca Solnit · Diary “I forget practical stuff all the time, but I also forget to look at the distance and contemplate the essential mysteries of the universe and the oneness of all things…I wonder sometimes if there will be a revolt against the quality of time the new technologies have brought us, as well […]
David and Goliath: Malcolm Gladwell’s tour de force
2013.08.30 – 13:16
David and Goliath: Malcolm Gladwell’s tour de force Review by Seth Godin
Simon Stålenhag Art Gallery
2013.08.30 – 11:46
Simon Stålenhag Art Gallery Images of robots in the Swedish countryside
What is Success?
2013.08.29 – 17:16
What is Success? “I didn’t think about success as a person, about emotional or creative success, about success in my marriage or in my relationships with people. My initial reaction was to think of success in narrow terms.”
Another ‘Grand Canyon’ Discovered Beneath Greenland’s Ice
2013.08.29 – 17:01
Another ‘Grand Canyon’ Discovered Beneath Greenland’s Ice
Just Thinking about Science Triggers Moral Behavior: Scientific American
2013.08.28 – 09:01
Just Thinking about Science Triggers Moral Behavior: Scientific American
Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?
2013.08.27 – 21:16
Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?
Modern Christianity = Ancient Christianity – Animism
2013.08.23 – 12:46
Modern Christianity = Ancient Christianity – Animism “Christianity was added-to animism: that is how it was for 1500 years: the fullness of Christianity includes animism. From the end of the Middle Ages animism was progressively, relentlessly subtracted from life; and from Christianity: the impulse was secular, Christianity merely went along with it.”
The Revolution of Peter Hitchens
2013.08.23 – 12:31
The Revolution of Peter Hitchens “People are still governed by assumptions that are Christian, but they no longer acknowledge the roots from which they come. In the end, you separate any plant from its roots, the plant will die. “
Alienation, Neo-shamanism and Recovered Animism
2013.08.23 – 12:31
Alienation, Neo-shamanism and Recovered Animism “alienation is not an inevitable part of the human condition: some people feel at one with the world. This perspective is a consequence of the animistic way of thinking which is shared by children and hunter-gatherers.”
Sports, Complexity, and the Ten-Thousand-Hour Rule
2013.08.22 – 00:01
Sports, Complexity, and the Ten-Thousand-Hour Rule Gladwell: “It does not invalidate the ten-thousand-hour principle, however, to point out that in instances where there are not a long list of situations and scenarios and possibilities to master—like jumping really high, running as fast as you can in a straight line, or directing a sharp object at […]
Good and Bad Reasons to Become an Entrepreneur
2013.08.21 – 21:01
Good and Bad Reasons to Become an Entrepreneur “The life of most CEOs is reporting to everyone else, at least that’s what it feels like to me and most CEOs I know.”
Desire Über Alles
2013.08.20 – 16:01
Desire Über Alles “after the failure of the Enlightenment to ground morality in pure reason … our only choices are to live with a) a belief that we can do whatever we like, that our desires should be our guide to morality (emotivism), or b) a belief that there is a teleology embedded in Nature, […]
Infinity Imagined
2013.08.17 – 00:01
Infinity Imagined “As beings, we are completely integrated into the Universe, composed and created by every event in our past light cone, and manifesting everything in our future light cone.”