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Writing Assignment: What You Need To Pass On

11.18.2011 Writing Assignments

One of the greatest powers that writing provides is the ability to pass knowledge and information on to future generations. This isn’t just for the greatest minds. This power is available to all of us. There are things you need to say. You need to tell your loved ones how you feel. Tell them. Say [...]

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Trajectory – How Steve Jobs Changed Everything

10.06.2011 Art

When I read the news of Steve Jobs passing last night, read it, in fact, on Twitter, I sighed, then put my iPhone away. I’d expected to hear of Steve Jobs passing at any time, but I was still surprised at the depth of my feelings at his passing. I never met the man, but [...]

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Proposed: The Global Time Machine

09.22.2011 Environment

Here’s an idea that I’ve talked about for some time that I’d love to see fully executed. Perhaps by some massive search engine company. I want a 3D globe that I can view. By default, it’s set to NOW. It will show the global weather, but as I look at the globe, I can also [...]

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You’re Probably Wrong About That

09.19.2011 Books and Literature

I spend a great deal of my day being wrong about things. How about you? You and I know a great many things. We know, we hope, how to do our jobs, how to get from point A to point B, how to survive from day to day. But there is a lot of our [...]

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The Foundation Of The Future: Isaac Asimov, Steve Jobs, and What’s Next

08.22.2011 Business

I hope you’ll allow me this momentary hyperbolic flight. Isaac Asimov wrote a very interesting series of novels called “The Foundation.” In them, his character, Hari Seldon, developed a science called psychohistory, with which he was able to accurately predict the large scale course of human events. It’s a great series, and was added to [...]

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