December 2011
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Living Ze Life You Want
A time comes in your life when you finally get when, in the midst of all your fears and insanity, you stop dead in your tracks and somewhere the voice inside your head cries out, ENOUGH! Enough fighting and crying and blaming and struggling to hold on. Then, like a child quieting down after a tantrum, you blink back your tears and begin to look at the world through new eyes.
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Tomorrow’s illiterate will not be the man who can’t read; he will be...
– The words came from Herbert Gerjuoy, whom Alvin Toffler cites in full as follows:
The new education must teach the individual how to classify and reclassify information, how to evaluate its veracity, how to change categories when necessary, how to move from the concrete to the abstract and back,...
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R.I.P. Ben Breedlove. →
Ben Breedlove, an 18-year-old high school senior in Austin, Texas, died on Christmas Day of a heart condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, something he’d had all of his life. But he left behind two wordless videos on his YouTube channel, in which he used a series of note cards with handwritten messages to tell his life story, including the three times he “cheated death.”...
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The Robot Hiring Boom Has Arrived →
Foxconn, the leading manufacturer of electronics in the world — which makes Apples iPhones and iPads, among other products — plans to build 500,000 robots over the next three years to either replace or augment the company’s human workforce… In one regard, this investment will help the company’s labor relations. After all, robots don’t hurl themselves out of...
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Be like melting snow — wash yourself of yourself.
– Rumi
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Before doing, one must BE.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of...
– Daniel J. Boorstin, US historian.
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