Distinguishing Smart from Stupid People
I’ve given this a tremendous amount of thought. No, more. I’ve written chapters in books to this topic. No…More. I’ve devoted many years of my life to interacting with people and trying to treat all people as equal of equal intelligence. My mantra, rubric, guideline, personal manifesto, what have you, was something along the lines [...]
Richard Feynman — Unquestionably a Hero.
Richard Feynman was one of the greatest physicists ever. think the most provocative and admirable quality of Richard Phillips Feynman (okay more than one) is:
The fearlessness, humor, and outspokenness of his voice (when he speaks he just speaks his mind and he’s usually thought about what he says a great deal, so he just [...]
Top 10 Reasons Why Life is Infinitely Better Reading Books
…and not watching movies. (This is in reference to non-fiction books, btw — and quality reads, not crap).
Movies leave you under a spell; an illusory haze so you cannot see. Books give control of the haze others are under.
Movies manufacture illusion without you knowing it, while books allow you to choose experience illusion, without decoupling [...]
I am not you, and you are not me — Transcending the Limitation of “Universal One”
I am not you, and you are not me. That is the way things are. I like that. As you ponder that, let me explain to you why I find tremendous value in that distinction.
Distinctions create boundaries. Without distinctions, everything would be porous and absorbing this information or that information would generate confusion. But that [...]
Flow Plan for Stock Options: Savviness Explained!
Buy Stock Option
Example: July $50 call option for Walgreens is $1.66 (1.66/share, always in round lot, so $166)
July = Expiration Month (it’s always the 3rd friday of the month!)
$50 = strike price
When the Option Expires. Decision Flow
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Science: The journal of Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Science: The journal of Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion just announced a possible breakthrough for astronauts enduring long-distance space travel. The earth is protected from meteorites, high velocity cosmic rays, and other space debris from its surrounding “magnetosphere”. Cutting edge physicists aim to simulate this magnetosphere around a space craft. Scientists [...]
Tuesday News Blip: Apple Innovations, Stocks Skyrocket, and More D
Technology: Apple’s innovation cease to amaze. The cutting edge rumor is that they intend to release a special laptop known as “the brick”. Doing its name justice, “the brick” is supposedly carved out of a solid “brick” of titanium, making it seamless and screwless! The price for such water-blasting crafted [...]
News Blip: LHC
The Large Hadron Collider was such massive news that it definitely needs its own article.
LHC will reveal to us details about dark and antimatter. It’s like an opportunity to replicate some never before-seen conditions, and answer millions of unknown questions; doing that, sometimes scares people! haha.
It excites me and most scientists, too, though.
Basically [...]
POP Suite Part 4: Electronic Organization and "Brain Trust" Part 2
If there’s one thing I have to say about electronic organization, it’s this: close open loops FAST! I’ve surfed the net many a time and accumulated 8 open windows, and over 30 tabs in less than an hour. That’s a lot to sort through. Just develop the habit of executing lightning-fast [...]
POP Suite Part 4: Electronic Organization and "Brain Trust" Part 1
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Welcome back to the Productivity and Organizational Progress (POP) Suite. Today we’re talking about electronic organization.
We’re jumping straight to the nitty gritty here. In today’s age, “paper-based organization” is an incredibly small percentage of the organization management we conduct; mostly all of it is electronic.
I think the best first [...]
eReader iPhone App
Well, iPhone continues it’s assault in knocking off numerous other electronic devices. Along with GPS devices, household-wide remotes, now it’s the killer device for the Amazon Kindle Kindle.
It’s also going to slaughter the less popular Sony Reader
eReader.com released an elegant and intuitive eReader app on the app store. The app itself [...]
.abbu and .icbu
It’s just so cool that with the most recent software upgrade, Apple has adopted the very same — IDENTICAL — naming practice I personally use for a lot of my files. Naming files month-day-year is dumb because when scrolling through hundreds of date-named files (like photos) you want to see the year, then month, [...]
iPhone: Mingling with Hollywood & Paving the way for solid Music Copyrights
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“Without even mentioning that the same functionality has been available on PocketPC, Palm, Nokia, and Blackberry for years, I just have to wonder who will want one of these things (other than the religious faithful). People need this to be a phone, [...]
Productivity Heros
This details the list of all productivity heros of which I can conjure
David Allen – The “Father” of modern productivity. His GTD is referenced in myriad productivity apps, resources, and books. The uber-productivity trend-setter, David coined words like “mind like water productivity” “blackbelt GTD” and other Zen-like terms. He has a martial [...]
