Yo-Yo Ma: Elgar Cello Concerto, 1st mvmt
https://youtu.be/RM9DPfp7-Ck
Sunday, September 11, 2022
Thursday, September 8, 2022
"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."
"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."
“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
“A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.”
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
Delicious Ambiguity said Gilda
“Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity.”
― Gilda Radner
Weaponized Lies: How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era | Daniel ...
https://youtu.be/3hK7Gd8UgmI
From The New York Times bestselling author of
THE ORGANIZED MIND (https://goo.gl/9d0AXx) and
THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON MUSIC (https://goo.gl/lWvwbe), a primer to the critical thinking that is more necessary now than ever.
We are bombarded with more information each day than our brains can process—especially in election season.
It's raining bad data, half-truths, and even outright lies. New York Times bestselling author Daniel J.
Levitin shows how to recognize misleading announcements, statistics, graphs, and written reports revealing the ways lying weasels can use them.
It's becoming harder to separate the wheat from the digital chaff.
How do we distinguish misinformation, pseudo-facts, distortions, and outright lies from reliable information?
Levitin groups his field guide into two categories—statistical information and faulty arguments—ultimately showing how science is the bedrock of critical thinking.
Info literacy means understanding that there are hierarchies of source quality and bias that variously distort our information feeds via every media channel, including social media.
We may expect newspapers, bloggers, the government, and Wikipedia to be factually and logically correct, but they so often aren't.
We need to think critically about the words and numbers we encounter if we want to be successful at work, at play, and in making the most of our lives.
This means checking the plausibility and reasoning—not passively accepting information, repeating it, and making decisions based on it.
Readers learn to avoid the extremes of passive gullibility and cynical rejection. Levitin's charming, entertaining, accessible guide can help anyone wake up to a whole lot of things that aren't so.
And catch some lying weasels in their tracks.
Sunday, August 28, 2022
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
What is Life?
What is Life?
It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time.
It is the little shadow which runs across the grass
and loses itself in the Sunset."
-Crowfoot....April 1890, on his deathbed
Information Overload is the Bane of my Life
My daily struggle is to understand what is important, to my situation, in the constant barrage of information on the Internet.
What can and should be ignored?
Is my purpose to seek distraction, novelty and entertainment?
Or is the goal and purpose to my Net Surfing to gain valuable knowledge?
What do I hope to accomplish?
“There are things that attract human attention, and there is often a huge gap between what is important and what is attractive and interesting."
- Yuval Noah Harari
And Donald Trump has not helped make being informed easy with all his mixed messages.
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
― The Marriage of Heaven and HellTuesday, June 4, 2013
Animals That Should Never Be Allowed to Go Feral
by JOHN T. PRICE
Published in the January/February 2013 issue of Orion magazine
1. KOI
When contained in Japanese-style water gardens, these colorful carp are a symbol of love and friendship. When released into wild ponds and waterways, they become a destructive terror, outbreeding and out competing all the natives.
2. RABBITS
3. BURMESE PYTHONS
Like a bad tattoo, the purchase of one of these “pets” usually involves alcohol, and soon inspires regret.
Perhaps it’s all the effort that goes into keeping it out of the baby’s crib, or the emotional drain of feeding it creatures you previously knew as “Mrs. Frisby” and “Stuart Little.” Whatever the reasons, owners are often inspired to release them into seemingly friendly snake habitats such as the Everglades, where they have already wiped out possum and raccoon populations....
4. HAMSTERS
Once escaped from its cage, this beloved pet quickly begins to act something like a rodent (which of course it is), scratching around in the walls at all hours, nibbling through electrical wires, spreading foul nuggets throughout the kitchen, and nesting in your underwear drawer. ...
Notice 2 of the above are rapid breeding rodents.......
Monday, February 11, 2013
List to create momentum in the right direction:
1. - Study less, more. Specific knowledge is valuable. Being a wandering generality pays no bills.
2. -Get organized. Know what comes first: Vision, Goals, Priorities, To Do Lists
3. -Remember space is the new luxury; minimalism
4. - Keep your life simple and sane
5. - Smart goals: specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, time-bound
6. - Use practice and repetition
7. - Remember to seek progress over perfection
8. - Do a little every day to achieve your goals.
9. - Learn success habits (stating with R. Ringer)
10. - Practice these simple habits, day in and day out, to create momentum in the direction of your vision.
11. - Focus. Stay on topic when reading and researching on the web.
12. - Balance
13. - Differentiate between the Clock and the Compass
14. - S. Covey Effective Habits:
Habit 1: Be Proactive
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
Habit 3: Put First Things First
Habit 4: Think Win-Win
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand
Habit 6: Synergize
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
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