Ambrose Bierce on Zeal
Picked up a nice quote on zeal from David Allen’s blog this AM. Great note to folks like me who, shall we say, brew over with passion from time to time. It’s by Ambrose Bierce – Zeal, n. A certain...
View ArticleThey Say I’m Extreme
Went to Barnes & Noble over at U-Village a couple of days ago (near the University of Washington here in Seattle). Had been having a bad day and needed some time to clear my head — decided to...
View ArticleVista ‘Porn at Bay’ (aka pBay ??)
Best tech quote from last week comes from Andru Edwards at Gear Live as he covered the CES show in Vegas. In a post on parental controls built into Microsoft’s Vista operating system – …Vista has big...
View ArticleKathy says ‘Reducing guilt is the killer app’
Over on Creating Passionate Users, Kathy Sierra posted that ‘Reducing guilt is the killer app’. I buy it — how about you? Can’t tell you how easy it is for my eLearning and design efforts to get stuck...
View Article‘Enthusiasm’—en theos—a god within
Here is a cool quote from Louis Pasteur found in the new book “Exuberance: The Passion for Life” by Kay Redfield Jamison The Greeks bequeathed to us one of the most beautiful words in our language—the...
View ArticleChris Pirillo says TechMeme has been hacked
Chris Pirillo says TechMeme has been hacked. Who knew?
View ArticleBerkun on ‘How to detect bullshit’
From Berkun’s latest ‘How to detect bullshit’ White lies are the spackle of civilization That is awesome.
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Medicine is magical and magical is art…
Our friend Zoe goes home today from her heart transplant. Wow. All I can think of are those words of St. Simon — These are the days of miracle and wonder…Medicine is magical and magical is art…
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Creating Passionate Users: Face-to-Face Trumps Twitter, Blogs, Podcasts, Video…
God bless Kathy Sierra. Over the last few months I’ve found myself trying to explain the deepening (and real community) aspects of meatspace interactions that my wife Jen and I have been drawn into as...
View ArticleRives at TED: It is not a question of if you can, it’s do ya?
The TED conference videos are some of the most amazing pieces of free learning I have ever seen. While working out last week I was going through the que of them on my iPod when I came across this 4...
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