Favorite MLK quote on tech innovation
On days like this when someone famous is honored, I try to dig up something they wrote to compare…
Category: Philosophy
Is Google ‘white bread for young minds’?
The Times Online has a short piece about the dangers of Google dominance for education, called White bread for…
The trashing of zen: a rant
George Orwell wrote about what happens when we misuse words. A core theme in the novel 1984 is how…
Buy nothing for Christmas
Gift giving was never a strength in my family. Sure, we gave gifts, we just didn’t do it well,…
The failure of Scolidays
With the end of year coming around, my highlights and lowlights for 2007 are coming to mind. One clear…
$1544 raised for Hopelink!
We walked. We walked. And then we walked some more. And thanks to all your contributions, we raised over…
Help me help folks in need
Innovation shminovation – some folks out there have trouble feeding their kids and staying warm. There are real problems…
Into the Wild: movie review (& more)
This is in two parts: first, a quick and dirty movie review. Second, a short essay on the book,…
Why you should be bad at something
I read an NYT article recently about The Really Terrible Orchestra. Their goal, in their own words, is as…
Attention and Sex: 5 minute video
At the last Seattle Ignite event, I did this talk, based on this essay, about the changing nature of…
MLK, technology and inspiration
What gets me every time I hear Martin Luther King speak is this: he didn’t have a blog. Nor…
(Seattle) Socrates cafe forming on eastside
I’m starting a philosophy discussion group here on the Eastside, and I need help. My rolodex of people that…
Worldchanging: Ideas for a better future
The worldchanging folks, who run a great blog and non-proft org, are now releasing their first book: Worldchanging: a…
Essay: How to detect bullshit
We all like to think we’re good at spotting BS, but how is it done? and why do people…
Life as a series of piles
Over at ario’s blog he’s got a great post asking questions about the pilecentric nature of our lives: we…
Two kinds of people: complexifiers and simplifiers
There are several thousand ways to complete the sentence “There are two kinds of people, those that…” And in…
The things you never hear
The other day, at drinks after visiting a company, I chatted with some of the team. The star topic…
Scolidays – 2006 (Custom holidays)
A few weeks ago I mentioned I’ve taken the egotistical but interesting step of creating my own holidays: called…