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2014/04/262014/04/26

Berto Jongman: Fixed (Drone) Mindsets versus Growth (Learner) Mindsets – Understanding Industrial Era Commoditized Human Gridlock versus Information Era Liberated Human Potential

Fixed vs. Growth: The Two Basic Mindsets That Shape Our Lives by Maria Popova How to fine-tune the internal monologue that scores every aspect of our lives, from leadership to love. “If you imagine less, less will be what you undoubtedly deserve,” Debbie Millman counseled in one of the best commencement speeches ever given, urging: …

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2014/04/252014/04/25

Berto Jongman: Barry Schwartz at TED on Our Loss of Wisdom

Barry Schwartz makes a passionate call for “practical wisdom” as an antidote to a society gone mad with bureaucracy. He argues powerfully that rules often fail us, incentives often backfire, and practical, everyday wisdom will help rebuild our world. VIDEO (20:45) Interactive Transcript

2014/04/252014/04/25

Tom Atlee: Climate Change as an Opportunity – Reconnecting to Place, Reality, & Reason

Climate challenges us to reconnect to place, reality and reason We are out of sync with the world and especially with “place”. We lack the insights and capacities that come from knowing a place deeply over generations and from conscious vulnerability to the real world. Our speedy technological consumer culture not only created climate change …

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2014/04/242014/04/24

Berto Jongman: Nature is Priceless — Economy is a Sub-Set of Nature, NOT the Other Way Round

Can you put a price on the beauty of the natural world? Those who reduce nature to a column of figures play to an agenda that ignores its inherent value – and seeks to destroy it George Monbiot The Guardian, Monday 21 April 2014 George Orwell warned that “the logical end of mechanical progress is …

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2014/04/242014/04/24

Stephen E. Arnold: Google Tells Political Truth — But Still Does Not Make Sense

Google Gets Political It’s not often in this day and age that a Fortune 500 company rattles any political cages. In most cases, companies keep their noses out of Washington, or at least disguise their motives behind lobbyists. However, Google seems to be making some striking political waves, as we discovered in a recent NBC …

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2014/04/212014/04/21

Review (Guest): Intelligence for Earth – Clarity, Diversity, Integrity & Sustainability

5.0 out of 5.0 Stars One visionary’s way out of the Corporate Feudalism/International Conflict trap By Herbert L Calhoun on April 1, 2014 In this book, the author, drawing extensively on his intelligence and military background, has cleanly written an easy to follow book, that outlines a careful course of action for developing a new …

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2014/04/212014/04/21

Stephen E. Arnold: Open Source Search Sucks, Google Hides, Norvig’s Law Skins Singularity

Open Source Search: Just Like Good Old Proprietary Search The more search changes, the more it remains the same it seems. Come to think of it: Most of today’s vendors are following the scripts written for Fulcrum Technologies and Verity who stomped around the C suite in the 1980s. Is the search sector running an …

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