We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.
~Howard Zinn
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Monday, March 12, 2012
Sunday, March 11, 2012
something deep inside us...
Astrophysicist Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was asked by a reader of TIME magazine, "What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?" This is his answer:
... and when Neil DeGrasse Tyson shows up to give a speech to the U.S. Senate Committee of Science on the importance of science funding in our country and only 4 out of the 25 members of the Senate Science Committee even bother to show up...
maybe it's time to get a new science committee.
We're the kind of species that needs a frontier....
Monday, March 5, 2012
perhaps...
I'm reading the book 'Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room' by David Weinberger.
Then, today, I came upon this TED talk that helped me make a few connections between data and information and thinking and what we ultimately call wisdom:
Perhaps, all knowledge and experience is an interpretation. Thinking is infinite and unbounded, but add in some perspective and creativity... and you have a thing of beauty.
"Russell Ackoff, a leading organizational theorist,
sketched a pyramid that has probably
been redrawn on a white board every hour since...
Ackoff was not the first person to propose this
data-information-knowledge-wisdom (DIKW) idea."
Think about T.S. Eliot who wrote these lines:
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Then, today, I came upon this TED talk that helped me make a few connections between data and information and thinking and what we ultimately call wisdom:
Perhaps, all knowledge and experience is an interpretation. Thinking is infinite and unbounded, but add in some perspective and creativity... and you have a thing of beauty.
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Friday, March 2, 2012
Thursday, March 1, 2012
free your mind
Every day, all day long, there is a story unfolding in your mind. It's the story you're telling yourself about who you are, and what your world is all about.
The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak.
RALPH CHARELL
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