November 2009
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“The principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport one to an impossible...”
– Carl Jung (via psychotherapy)
Solar System Scale Model →
proofmathisbeautiful:
macmankev:
roomthily:
planets are shown at true average distances - on a 72dpi monitor, that’s more than half a mile wide.
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Learn to be discriminating
Eco: Google makes a list, but the minute I look at my Google-generated list, it has already changed. These lists can be dangerous — not for old people like me, who have acquired their knowledge in another way, but for young people, for whom Google is a tragedy. Schools ought to teach the high art of how to be discriminating.
SPIEGEL: Are you saying that teachers should instruct students on...
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A full story has no end.
A persons actions reflect the knowledge of life that they wish to share with the world.
Their secrets are the wounds that earned them that knowledge.
One without the other is only half the story.
“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is...”
– Albert Einstein (via quote-book)
“Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.”
– Clark’s Law
Via Adactio’s “Burge Pitch Torrent”.
(via boblet)
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“I want to die young, at a ripe old age.”
– Ashley Montagu (via fatalistichues) (via quote-book)
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Time Management by input grouping
One of the tricky aspects of networking all these social interfaces together is somehow figuring out a best way to manage your flow. The traffic from different people, businesses, and resources all require different types of attention at different times. At first foray into social networking you won’t have too much to contend with, just some friends, some people you like, some things you...
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Telefon Tel Aviv - Life Is All About Taking Things...
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Clarity
One of the common problems we face as people is the tendency of the mind to assume that, once we’ve learned it, it’s mostly common knowledge. It’s what makes it tricky to talk about things with someone outside your circle of friends, industry, or wherever there’s a common cultural understanding that operates as a base layer of common knowledge.
This is especially tricky in...
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