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information overload

It’s always time to simplify.
We need to make information simple.
We need to listen and organize and purge.
We need to be patient with those around us who adapt at different rates.
We need to revisit our approach.
I just watched this “Web 2.0″ video again.  It is information overload.  Yet, it also is about managing external perception.  It [...]

copyright

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reward based on performance

Sounds pretty straight forward to me.  Let’s shit-can all the sucky teachers.

I’m going back to watching physics lectures.

Platform Agnostic

I think I want everything to be platform agnostic.  But, I’m not sure about reasons why I might not want that.  I think I’d like everything I do, as it relates to computing and technology and communications, to be able to be done on any platform and to be seamless.
Am I missing anything?  Is there [...]

Success Prep

10 Skills You Need to Succeed at Almost Anything
[HT: Clint Covington]

Learning to Change-Changing to Learn

Learning to Change-Changing to Learn

Notice my URL… now.
I found this video via this post.
It’s particularly interesting to me because I just had a discussion with a good friend.  That discussion was directly about this topic and how we have different viewpoints and different aspects of this topic in our lives.
I’m listening.
I’m [...]

interesting words for me today

tolerable
dross
patience
quagmire
drivel
adroit
tepid

Status Updates

I just added this as my Facebook status.  “Toby is quagmire laden, feeling morose, exhausted, refreshed, enlightened, verbose, confused, capable, smart, hungry, thirsty, and finally some enchanted melancholy.”

March 20

March 20 is today’s date.  This year it’s the 80th day of the year (leap year).  There are 286 days remaining.  It’s the first day of Spring!  It’s also plenty of other things.  Three of those things, I think are really cool.
Today is World Storytelling Day!
Today is the birthday of Frederick W. Taylor – an [...]

curing your appetite for fallacies

“A fallacy is a kind of error in reasoning…”

best slippery slope ever

best slippery slope ever
“Why shouldn’t I work for the N.S.A.? That’s a tough one, but I’ll take a shot. Say I’m working at N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I’m real happy with myself, ’cause [...]

How to use Google’s calculator: convert to hexadecimal, binary, and decimal

If you read this and say “Cool!”, you may have found your inner geek! 
How to use Google’s calculator: convert to hexadecimal, binary, and decimal