20 JAN 2015 by TGAW
Chuck Stover on Making Use of Your Brain During Repetitiv...
It was a job. It was good exercise, great people there. It gave me a lot of time to think about design during the day because of the repetitive nature of the work.
Kind of put half of my brain thinking about design questions and the other half to work. Then I would come home after work and get onto Sketch-Up and work on designs until I passed out.Folksonomies: 3dprinting 3ddesign
Folksonomies: 3dprinting 3ddesign
1 Chuck Stover worked a factory job making Cadillac suspensions. That repetitive job gave him the ability to think about 3D design.
11 SEP 2014 by TGAW
Tom Hanks on Typewriters
What I really, truly miss is the physical trail that typing usually gives you. Typing on an actual typewriter on paper is only a softer version of chiseling words into stone. 1 
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notesTom Hanks recently created an app that mimics typing on a typewriter. While talking about his app, one thought stuck out to me.
11 DEC 2013 by TGAW
Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (Amma) on Compassion
Not long ago, a young boy handed me an envelope containing 300 euros. He said he wanted it to be used to help the orphans at our ashram. I asked him to keep the money, which he had won in a music competition, but he refused.
Two weeks later, his little sister came to me with an envelope containing her ice-cream pocket money. She told her parents: “I eat ice cream all the time. This time I want to give to the orphans, like my brother.” The sister’s compassion was awoken by her brother...I really responded to this excerpt of Amma's response to the New York Times on who our moral leaders are.
Two sentences in particular stuck out: “The sister’s compassion was awoken by her brother’s moral integrity” (on the girl who donated her ice cream money after seeing her brother donate his music competition winnings) and “The universe is like a vast net; if one corner is shaken, the vibration pervades the whole.” (on the man who mowed the Lincoln Memorial).
She really illustrated how generosity and compassion can spread.
30 NOV 2013 by TGAW
Elridge Cleaver on Prison's Effect of Sense of Self
You may find this difficult to understand but it is very easy for one in prison to lose his sense of self. And if he has been undergoing all kinds of extreme, involved, and unregulated changes, then he ends up not knowing who he is. Take the point of being attractive to women. You can easily see how a man can lose his arrogance or certainty on that point while in prison! When he's in the free world, he gets constant feedback on how he looks from the number of female heads he turns when he... 1 notes
notesElridge Cleaver talks about how prison has a detrimental effect on one's self esteem
13 NOV 2013 by TGAW
John Muir on Nature as a Neccessity
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alikeFolksonomies: johnmuir nature
Folksonomies: johnmuir nature
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notes24 JUL 2013 by TGAW
Katherine Paterson on Time to Write
And then, of course, you can't be a writer unless you actually write, and it doesn't take as much time as people think. You know, the number of people who say, well, I'm going to write a book when I have time, they're never going to have the time. And I started writing seriously when I had four tiny children. Well, I mean I had one tiny child, two tiny child, three tiny children, four tiny children in just over four years, and that's when I began to write seriously. And I figured out that a l...Folksonomies: writing katherinepaterson
Folksonomies: writing katherinepaterson
Katherine Paterson shares wisdom on writing... even with small children.
03 APR 2013 by TGAW
Beware of Software Engineers Who Do Not Maintain Their Ow...
If an engineer is not tasked with the long term maintenance of the systems they build, view them with suspicion. 80% of the blood, sweat, and tears of software occurs after its been released—that’s when you become a world weary, but wiser “professional.”Folksonomies: softwaredevelopment maintenance
Folksonomies: softwaredevelopment maintenance
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notes25 MAR 2013 by TGAW
Ryan Somma on Lisa Nowak
It was comforting to know that someone like Lisa Nowak, who represents the best of the best of the best, can be driven to dramatic, irrational acts for love.Folksonomies: lisanowak love astronaut
Folksonomies: lisanowak love astronaut
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notes01 FEB 2013 by TGAW
Colin P. Davies on Rejection in the Publication Industry
Rejection is a fact of publishing – and of life itself. When you go to a restaurant, and read the menu, you engage in the act of rejecting most of what the chef has to offer. Yet neither you, nor the chef, take it personally, or expect anything else. The same is true of the publishing industry. When a publisher is handed a story, he or she must decide if the story is one that they can use. If not, they must refuse it. That means it’s still available to offer to others. Keep trying. If you...Folksonomies: publication rejection writing
Folksonomies: publication rejection writing
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notes24 MAY 2012 by TGAW
H.G. Wells on Immunity and Natural Selection - The Birthr...
These germs of disease have taken toll of humanity since the beginning of things--taken toll of our prehuman ancestors since life began here. But by virtue of this natural selection of our kind we have developed resisting power; to no germs do we succumb without a struggle, and to many--those that cause putrefaction in dead matter, for instance--our living frames are altogether immune. But there are no bacteria in Mars, and directly these invaders arrived, directly they drank and fed, our mic...Folksonomies: evolution
Folksonomies: evolution
A great passage from War of the Worlds
