06 JAN 2018 by ideonexus
Of All Times in which to Live, You Would Choose Today
I don't think in terms of one year, but I can tell people what I genuinely believe, which is that if we take responsibility in being involved in our own fate if we participate, if we engage, if we speak out, if we work in our communities, if we volunteer, if we see the joy that comes from service to others, then all the problems that we face are solvable despite all the terrible news that you see, despite all the genuine cruelty, pain, and hardship people are experiencing all around the world...Folksonomies: optimism
Folksonomies: optimism
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How to Sell to Millennials
1. People buy things because of what they can do with them... Create crystal-clear communication that helps people connect how your product or service makes their lives better. An obsession with simplicity is essential.
2. People buy things because of what they can tell others about it... Help connect people to other people through your business. Sales isn't really about "selling" anymore, it's about building a community.
3. People buy things because of what having it says about them... Con...Folksonomies: marketing
Folksonomies: marketing
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notes21 NOV 2014 by ideonexus
The World of the Electron and the Switch
This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the
beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying
for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and
you call us criminals. We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek
after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color,
without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals.
You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murde... 1 notes
notes03 MAR 2014 by ideonexus
The Danger of Scientific Ignorance in a Science-Based Civ...
I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time — when we're a
service and information economy; when nearly all the key
manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries;
when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few,
and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the
issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own
agendas or knowledgeably question those In authority; when,
clutching our crystals and r... 1 notes
notesWe are more reliant on science than ever before, but we are also most disdainful of it.
24 DEC 2013 by ideonexus
Humans are the Giraffes of Altruism
Humans are the giraffes of altruism. We’re freaks of nature, able (at our best) to achieve antlike levels of service to the group. We readily join together to create superorganisms, but unlike the eusocial insects we do it with blatant disregard for kinship and we do it temporarily and contingent upon special circumstances (particularly intergroup conflict, as is found in war, sports, and business).
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Having the term “contingent superorganism” in our cognitive toolkit may help peo...
1 Jonathan Haidt explains our our proclivity to help one another makes us a kind of "superorganism."
26 APR 2012 by ideonexus
Early Speculation on the Fuel of Stars
A star is drawing on some vast reservoir of energy by means unknown to us. This reservoir can scarcely be other than the subatomic energy which, it is known exists abundantly in all matter; we sometimes dream that man will one day learn how to release it and use it for his service. The store is well nigh inexhaustible, if only it could be tapped. There is sufficient in the Sun to maintain its output of heat for 15 billion years. 1 notes
notesFrom 1920, demonstrating an understanding that the fuel is subatomic energy, but betrays no insights as to how it is release.
12 SEP 2011 by ideonexus
The Engineer is the Key Figure in the Material Progress o...
The engineer is the key figure in the material progress of the world. It is his engineering that makes a reality of the potential value of science by translating scientific knowledge into tools, resources, energy and labor to bring them to the service of man ... To make contribution of this kind the engineer requires the imagination to visualize the needs of society and to appreciate what is possible as well as the technological and broad social age understanding to bring his vision to reality.Folksonomies: engineering
Folksonomies: engineering
He translates scientific knowledge into tools, resources, energy and labor.
07 SEP 2011 by ideonexus
The Promise of Science
One of the largest promises of science is, that the sum of human happiness will be increased, ignorance destroyed, and, with ignorance, prejudice and superstition, and that great truth taught to all, that this world and all it contains were meant for our use and service; and that where nature by her own laws has defined the limits of original unfitness, science may by extract so modify those limits as to render wholesome that which by natural wildness was hurtful, and nutritious that which by...Folksonomies: scientific progress science benefits
Folksonomies: scientific progress science benefits
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notesWe do not yet know half that chemistry may do by way of increasing our food.
18 MAY 2011 by ideonexus
Scooby Doo is a Show About Skeptics
A series called 'The X Files', which pays lip-service to sceptical
examination of the paranormal, is skewed heavily towards the
reality of alien abductions, strange powers and government complicity
in covering up just about everything interesting. Almost
never does the paranormal claim turn out to be a hoax or a
psychological aberration or a misunderstanding of the natural
world. Much closer to reality, as well as a much greater public
service, would be an adult series ('Scooby Doo' does it f...Folksonomies: skepticism science education
Folksonomies: skepticism science education
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notesIt is the exact opposite of the X-Files.
01 JAN 2010 by ideonexus
An Empirical Research Model for Software Development
2cThe research approach is strongly empirical. At the workplace of each member of the subject group we aim to provide nearly full-time availability of a CRT work station, and then to work continuously to improve both the service available at the stations and the aggregate value derived therefrom by the group over the entire range of its roles and activities.
2dThus the research group is also the subject group in the experiment.
2d1Among the special activities fo the group are the evolutionary... 1 notes
notesFrom the paper detailing the invention of the mouse, comes an empirical research methodology used in many software development environments, where the developers are the users and thus experiment on themselves.
