2.1 The Death of Money
2.2 Do schools kill creativity?
2.3 Protecting the Cake
2.4 New social and governance models
2.5 The 70/20/10 principle
2.6 Reading Books
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2.1 The Death of Money (3/2/2015)
The Death of Money
http://jimrickardspredictions.
2.2 Do schools kill creativity? (5/2/2015)
2.3 Protecting the Cake (7/2/2015)
2.4 New social and governance models (9/2/2015)
2.5 The 70/20/10 principle (19/2/2015)
We spend 70 percent of our time on core search and ads. We spend 20 percent on adjacent businesses: Google News, Google Earth, and Google Local. And then 10 percent of our time should be on things that are truly new.
- Eric Schmidt, 2005
https://medium.com/@noah_
2.6 Reading Books (22/2/2015)
2.1 Teaching Stars (1/2/2015)
The Death of Money
http://jimrickardspredictions.
2.2 Do schools kill creativity? (5/2/2015)
I had posted this earlier. Worth viewing again.
Selvaraj2.3 Protecting the Cake (7/2/2015)
Think of all the things you own
as “your cake” — The money you make, your nice apartment with all that
great furniture and all the cool gadgets you might own. Even your
personal image to a certain degree, not just physical goods.
Those
things make up your personal cake . It’s a great feeling having this
big tasty cake in your life right in front of you — You worked for it,
so you deserve a big cake — Right?
Most
of our time is now devoted to protect all those things. Because who
likes to take a pay cut or move from a bigger apartment into a smaller
one, or risk no place to stay at all? The older we get and the bigger
our cake grows, the more we get used to a certain standard. ...
https://medium.com/@2.4 New social and governance models (9/2/2015)
CANBERRA, Australia—Australian Prime Minister
Tony Abbott
survived a move by party rebels to unseat him, but now faces a
challenge to convince voters that he retains enough authority to bring
in reforms and represent the country on the world stage.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/
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http://www.wsj.com/articles/
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We
can expect increased political instability in all nations in the years
to come as governments struggle to deliver using an economic system
which has gone past its expiry date. If humans are to survive,
definitely our future will be very different from our past. The
challenge for us today is to boldly experiment with new social and
governance models.
Selvaraj2.5 The 70/20/10 principle (19/2/2015)
We spend 70 percent of our time on core search and ads. We spend 20 percent on adjacent businesses: Google News, Google Earth, and Google Local. And then 10 percent of our time should be on things that are truly new.
- Eric Schmidt, 2005
https://medium.com/@noah_
2.6 Reading Books (22/2/2015)
Just completed reading 'The Greek Treasure', a biographical novel on Heinrich Schliemann by Irving Stone.
The other books by Irving Stone that I have read are:
- 'The Agony and the Ecstasy' based on the life of Michelangelo.
- Those Who Love, based on the life of John Adams and Abigail Adams.
Next, I have borrowed 'Clarance Darrow for the Defense', a biography of Clarance Darrow. This should be interesting.
I love biographical novels. They can however be difficult to read, so one has to put page markers and persevere.
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One fact that has struck me is that the nineteenth century produced truely great men, here is a random list:
Mahatma Gandhi - 1869
Einstein - 1879
Einstein - 1879
James Clerk Maxwell - 1831
Ernest Rutherford - 1871
Rabindranath Tagore - 1861
Louis Pasteur - 1822
Charles Darwin - 1809
Abraham Lincoln - 1809 ..... many more.
The question in my mind is are we having similar great men and will future generations throw up similar great men?
My fear is that through the use of technology we have created a situation where our brains do not have the same fertile ground that the brains of our forebears had to develop properly.
My fear is that through the use of technology we have created a situation where our brains do not have the same fertile ground that the brains of our forebears had to develop properly.
When
we read a book our brain functions in an entirely different way from
the way in which it functions when we watch a video. In reading a book
the brain has to 'imagine' in a way in which it is not called upon to do
when watching a video.
So we have to think hard and deep about the influence of TV and video on our lives.
So we have to think hard and deep about the influence of TV and video on our lives.
Reading
good books must take precedence over attending classes, listening to
teachers or viewing recorded lectures. And there is no point in learning
from the second best book, we must learn from the best book available
on the subject. Not everyone can write a good book. We also need a very
vigorous movement to translate good books into different languages.
Selvaraj2.1 Teaching Stars (1/2/2015)
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