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Monthly Archives: January 2009
Alexis vs Klinker
A fascinating article contrasting the ID “sellout” viewpoint of design with the Cranbook “artsy-fartsy” viewpoint: http://www.cranbrookdesign.com/index.php/topics/more/design_versus_innovation_the_cranbrook_iit_debate/ I’m pleased and surprised how little Apple came up in this discussion, but I find it amusing that Jobs and Ivy have purposefully kept … Continue reading
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Official google.org Blog: How to assess entrepreneurial potential? A new tool for SME lenders
Official google.org Blog: How to assess entrepreneurial potential? A new tool for SME lenders
Bottom, Middle, Top of the pyramid
A project I worked on last semester parallels work that is being done at google.org – my project for Larry Keeley’s class (dqe1.com/files/juncture-proposal.pdf) focused on creating an ‘opportunity engine’ that connects various NGOs like Kiva, Grammeen Bank, and Heifer Intl. … Continue reading
Posted in business, economics, geopolitical theory, research, school
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vonnegut’s lobotomy
In Galopogos, Vonnegut suggests that in a million years humans will have evolved much smaller brains (and turned into dolphin-like creatures), laughing and crying about the ridiculous machinations and complexities of our current society. Indeed, it’s doubtless that much of … Continue reading
Posted in cultural evolution, information anxiety, information overload, theory of knowledge
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constitutional celebration
Time for a constitutional amendment party!!! Maybe it’s just that I’ve had my first cup of coffee from a clover machine, but I’m swayed and convinced by this article that it’s time and ready for change: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200901/founders-mistake/3
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superficiality
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. -Martin Luther King, Jr., civil-rights … Continue reading
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acting
maybe actors are born by never learning, intuitively, to act. These simplest of people always show what they are feeling with direct, un-second-guessed earnestness. When somebody puts them into a situation, they baldly display their reaction to it. When a … Continue reading
Posted in attention, behavior, theory of knowledge
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