"(...) Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic cancer, gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving talk, "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals. For more, visit www.cmu.edu/randyslecture. (...)"
"(...) The most useful idea you can have is the idea that can enable you to evaluate other ideas. (...)"
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One of Chris's most hands-on blog post that I've read, with practical advice on overcoming difficulty and on positive thinking.
"(...) attracting to yourself people and circumstances that fit your new mood. The Law Of Attraction in action! That ’s how it works: positive thoughts causing positive emotions, causing positive experiences, causing more positive thoughts and more positive emotions etc etc …a virtuous spiral building on itself. Keep feeding that spiral! (...)"
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In the area of futurology and the meaning of life, these are a couple of podcasts from IT Conversation that spoke to me lately:
IT Conversations: Joel Garreau - Human Nature
"Are we fundamentally changing human nature in our lifetime?" Joel Garreau thinks that yes we will be...over the next twenty years. What's driving this? He goes into great depth on Moore's Law and later on, Metcalfe's Law, which he received brownie points from Bob at the end of his session. He talks about technologies, how they are now aimed inward and gives a number of s curve examples.
IT Conversations: Greenfield v. Kurzweil - Biotech: Will it Save Us or Hurt Us?
Baroness Susan Greenfield, Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, debates Ray Kurzweil, one of America’s most prolific inventors and a futuristic thinker in his own right. Will biotechnology save us? Or hurt us?
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Happy New Year! Hyvää Uutta Vuotta! Gelukkig Nieuwjaar!
Somewhat related on www.josschuurmans.com:
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Been trying to improve the "About"
info on my blog, because I felt that it wasn't very precise and could
be more relevant.
Until now, I had stated my profession, hinting at my employer, and listed a bunch of keywords to reflect my interest areas.
This is what it's been saying:
[STARTS]
Contact
Website: http://www.josschuurmans.com
One-Line Bio
I'm an editor, content manager and concept developer of corporate communications solutions with a leading mobility company.
Interests
Mobility, communications technology, moblogging, new journalism, interactive publishing, human-computer interaction, usability, UI design, information architecture, knowledge management, content management, project management, organizational renewal, leadership, negotiation, information society, international relations, international political economy, history, sociology, philosophy, literature, film, music, canooing, cross-country skiing, nordic walking.
[ENDS]
After writing my entry about 'FOAFing the Semantic Web', I started thinking that, if matching like-minded people via machine-readible content is ever going to work, their interest profiles, or rather identity profiles, would have to be quite precise.
So, instead of contemplating my hobbies and interests, I had a go at jotting down what makes me me. What defines me.
A modernisation theory for blogging
I believe that blogs often follow a typical, staged development. I have this idea of a "modernisation theory for blogging", which I'd like to work out in more detail some day.
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