My daughter is in sixth grade and, for her age, she is on the smaller-size. Nevertheless, every morning I marvel as she straps on her backpack and trudges off to school. I'm pretty sure -- pound-for-pound -- she is carrying more weight than a Roman Centurion went into battle with 2000 years ago. It needn't [...]
The field of 3D printing or additive manufacturing is advancing rapidly. I recently explained how innovative researchers at MIT are already constructing musical instruments such as flutes using the technology. Now other researchers have printed a bike and, in the not-too-distant future, it will be possible to print body parts such as kidney’s--as Anthony Atala [...]
The best way to unlearn the innate silliness of authority figures is to become your own authority figure. Who'd a figured?
"Unlearning is like quicksand. The more you fight it, the worse it gets." Jack Uldrich For a fascinating and informative article (and accompanying video) on how to escape from quicksand, I encourage you to read this article. Interested in unlearning how action is always the best policy, check out this old post: Don't Just Do [...]
I haven’t yet seen the new documentary, Transcendent Man, which based upon the ideas of Ray Kurzweil but I’m looking forward to it. I realize many people are extremely uncomfortable with his ideas but I believe they have a great deal of merit for one simple reason: Evolution is exponential. From my perspective, Ray Kurzweil [...]
10. Teachers (and other experts) can be wrong. 9. Questions are better than answers. 8. Problems can have multiple solutions. 7. If something goes without saying, question it. 6. The opposite may also be true. 5. Certain things can be true and false at the same time. 4. Adults see and hear the world differently [...]
"If Indian engineers find out an executive has an MBA, they will say, 'unlearn and observe." I love this quote is from Wim Elfrink, Cisco's chief globalization that appeared in this article. It also brings to mind this outstanding video from David Heinemeier Hansson entitled Unlearn Your MBA. Of course rather than unlearning your MBA, [...]
Seth Godin recently had a wonderful post entitled Jumping the line vs opening the door. In it, he explained how jumping to the front of a line can be a positive and beneficial act if the person's intention is to open a second door that allows more people to enter the building. In this same [...]
“The technology ‘actually recognizes faces. If you raise your eyebrow, it can track that,’ says Jonathon Nelson, chief executive at Omnicon Digital.” This quote is from the article The Billboard That Knows in today’s Wall Street Journal and suggests that yet another one of my predictions for 2011 is on pace to occur. Here is [...]
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