December 2009
2 posts
Paul Saffo Opined About the Internet in 1995 -...
It’s a very consistent pattern in this business that collectively as a society and as individuals we all suffer from what I call macro- myopia. A pattern where our hopes and our expectations or our fears about the threatened impact of some new technology causes us to overestimate its short-term impacts and reality always fails to meet those inflated expectations. And as a result our...
Reality
See through things. Reality is an illusion. The real things are invisible and can only be felt. Live in the now at least some part of the day. Realize that everything is a miracle. You included.
September 2009
1 post
“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us...”
– Randy Pausch
June 2009
3 posts
linked geo data →
embryonic project with tremendous potential
“Sometimes it seems there is a set of people for whom the semantic web is the...”
– http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/RDF-XML.html
January 2009
1 post
Transformation
Every few hundred years in Western Civilization, there occurs a sharp transformation … Within a few short decades, society rearranges itself - its worldview; its basic values; its social and political structure; its arts; its key institutions. Fifty years later, there is a new world, and the people born can’t even imagine the world in which their grandparents live and into which their...
October 2008
1 post
The Man in the Arena
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually...
September 2008
1 post
“If you really want to know who I am, you have to be as absolutely empty as I am....”
– Osho
August 2008
3 posts
Don't believe anything
Don’t believe anything. Regard things on a scale of probabilities. The things that seem most absurd, put under ‘Low Probability’, and the things that seem most plausible, you put under ‘High Probability’. Never believe anything. Once you believe anything, you stop thinking about it. The more things you believe, the less mental activity. If you believe something, and...
Breathless hearts
When our Conceptual Minds are “blown away” by the vast panorama of Mythic Intelligence, it’s up to us to re-stabilize our psychology by integrating the new outlook. The Mythic reveals the relatedness-of-allliving-things… much like the DNA codes the language of universal life. To the degree our concepts (of the world & ourselves) are obliterated by the impact of...
Teachers
Gas Station Attendants, Grandmothers, Stumbling Drunks, Astronomers, Cats, Landladies, Ferns, Newscasters, Mozart, Hardcore Punk Music, Madmen, Crystals, Children, Presidents, Indian Chiefs, Movie Stars, Plumbers, Telephone Operators and the list goes on forever. It’s all Spiritual and the Teachers are everywhere. It just takes a certain kind of perspective to see this.
July 2008
3 posts
RAW
OK, so at what point is Wilson kidding and at what point is he serious?
“The older I get, the less seriously I take anything,” says Wilson. “The Chinese say the wise become Confucian in good times, Buddhist in bad times and Taoist in old age. I’m old enough to be a Taoist. I don’t see anything very seriously.” Not even, as it turns out, mortality.
“I...
Men and women as friends
Billy Crystal (Harry Burns): You realize of course that we could never be friends. Meg Ryan (Sally Albright): Why not? Billy Crystal (Harry): What I’m saying is - and this is not a come-on in any way, shape or form - is that men and women can’t be friends because the sex part always gets in the way. Meg Ryan (Sally): That’s not true. I have a number of men friends and there is...
June 2008
7 posts
Risks
We start running risks when we get out of bed in the morning. Risks are good for us, they bring out the best that’s in us. They brighten the eye and get the mind cooking. They put a new shiny look on our days. Human beings should never be settled, it’s ok for chicken, cows and cats, but it’s wrong for human beings. People start to die when they become settled. We need to keep...
Mythogenetic Moment
Joseph Campbell had a term for the nodal moment or temporal vortex: he called it themythogenetic moment. On the first page ofCreative Mythology, he signaled the 12th century as the last great mythogenetic moment in the history of Western civilization. … Campbell felt passionately that the transition into the 21st century could be a mythogenetic moment morally and spiritually equivalent to the 12th...
“Dream the dreams and then be foolish enough to make your dreams come true. That...”
– Vinod Khosla, Sun
“You don’t solve all of the problems before jumping into a new situation....”
– Vinod Khosla, Sun
“We were building a team for a Zero Billion dollar company.”
– Vinod Khosla, Sun
“Sometimes simplicity is more complex than complexity.”
– (I’d say not sometimes, but always!)
May 2008
4 posts
5 Simple Advices for thinking Simple and Big →
“But rare is the man or woman who can take an idea and transform it into a...”
– source
“A company is more likely to be burried by a new technology than by its existing...”
– Kotler on marketing
“It seems undeniable that most people are drawn to better themselves...”
– Source
April 2008
3 posts
Follow your bliss
BILL MOYERS: Do you ever have the sense of… being helped by hidden hands? JOSEPH CAMPBELL: All the time. It is miraculous. I even have a superstition that has grown on me as a result of invisible hands coming all the time - namely, that if you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be...
Will
The human will is both active (Masculine) and receptive (Feminine); the former definition most commonly associated with “act of will.” The active will acts upon the environment and knows itself through its effect on the world, whereas the receptive will sits where it is and absorbs information from its environment and is affected. When synchronized, they form a flexible kind of...
March 2008
2 posts
Six levels of intelligence
Stupid: This is where you are passively taking everything in without associating, interpreting or thinking about it. Bright: This is where you begin seeing the associations and relationships of whatever you are taking in. Smart: After seeing the associations between things, this is where you begin to predict outcomes by combining those associations in such a way as to get desired results. Here we...
To be intelligent is to make mistakes
Machines that behave unpredictably tend to be viewed as malfunctioning, unless we are playing games of chance. Alan Turing, namesake of the infallible, deterministic, Universal machine, recognized (in agreement with Richard Foreman) that true intelligence depends on being able to make mistakes. “If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent,” he argued in...
February 2008
3 posts
“Also in Getting Real, which is mainly about web applications. They demonstrate...”
– source
“I know this is far-fetched, but bear with me here. We may be on the edge...”
– Bruce Sterling
January 2008
2 posts
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a...”
– Robert A. Heinlein
“Programmers recently had a major shift in their quality focus with the...”
– Zed Shaw
December 2007
5 posts
“The human species is often amazingly inventive and industrious but at the same...”
– CODE - Charles Petzold
“Here lies a man who knew how to bring into his service men better than he was...”
– the words that Andew Carnegie chose for his tombstone
“Cutler never apologized for his impatience or his tantrums. “I thrive on...”
– Show Stopper (book about Windows NT project)
“I’ve been working in computers for years, and only the simplest stuff...”
– A virtual team leader reflecting on technology facilitation
November 2007
8 posts
“From my experience in helping to create technology companies, the right...”
– source
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is...”
– Antoine de Saint Exupery
“ha! i was going to sign in, but then i got sick of it and stopped making a...”
– Suzanne
“Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.”
– Winston Churchill
“Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in...”
– Warren Buffett
October 2007
13 posts
“Leaders who don’t care about people don’t have anyone to lead,...”
– Gerald M. Weinberg