September 2010
19 posts
Beauty
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
— Kahlil Gibran
“Every person you look at you can see the universe in his eyes, if you really...”
– George Carlin
Self-Actualization
“What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization…It refers to the desire for self-fulfillment, namely, to the tendency for him to become actualized in what he is potentially. This tendency might be phrased as the desire to become more and more what one is, to become everything that one is capable of becoming.”
— Abraham Maslow (A Theory of Human...
Brain Bugs
List of cognitive biases
Structured Procrastination →
This is why I love Google
This Is My Philosophy (GTD)
"Is Google Making Us Stupid?" by Nicholas Carr
http://tinyurl.com/ykchfpj
On Human Nature
Am I sounding like a selfish shit again? I am only being honest. At bottom people are selfish. And that primordial selfishness, which our species goes to great pains to deny, seems to underlie most human behavior. Isn’t that what Adam Smith was talking about with his “self-interest” as the basis for capitalism? Or Deborah Raeke, in her terrifying novel The Morning of Artifice? there. I’m thinking...
100 Reasons to Mind Map
http://tinyurl.com/nchmo9
15 Things You May Not Know About Sesame Street →
The Number of the Books In the World →
“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which...”
– Carl Sagan
WatchKeep your goals to yourself: Derek Sivers on TED.com
An insightful lecture by Derek Sivers. He reminds me with a famous quotes by Einstein:
“If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.
The Answer to Information Overload
Point of View is the quintessentially human solution to information overload, an intuitive process of reducing things to an essential, releveant and manageable minimum …. in a world of hyper-abundant content, point of view will become the secert of resources.
— Paul Saffo