Been doing some work and reading around Howard Gardner’s “Multiple Intelligences” (M.I.) meme/rhetoric, as well as the competing/subsuming idea of a “General Intelligence Factor.” Ugh. This whole debate about what the term “intelligence” can or should specifically refer to (versus more general notion of “ability” or “cognitive ability”) is tiresome. Much of the discussion — and [...]
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Some thoughts on the “Boiled Frog Parable,” which describes how small incremental changes (e.g. water slowly rising to a boil) will go unnoticed/unheeded (e.g. by a frog) until it’s too late (e.g. frog gets boiled). Viability as a Meme Subversion of the Meme Frogs, Slimebags and Deli Slicers 1. Viability as a Meme Maybe it has to do [...]
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Just flew into Boston on a Cessna 402C operated by Cape Air. PROS: Great service, great price, fast check-in/check-out, no hassles. BONUS: You fly low enough (~8000 feet) to enjoy a great view and get cellphone reception (they ask that you don’t use your cellphone as a safety concern, so I wouldn’t advise testing [...]
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A woman sat next to me on the red-eye from San Diego last night. She was writing the eulogy for her husband, who had died from a sudden heart attack in his sleep, three nights earlier. “We were married 49 years. This was our first real vacation ever,” she said, “I’m glad that we had [...]
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We are stardust, we are golden, We are billion year old carbon. And we got to get ourselves back to the garden. — Joni Mitchell, Woodstock “Physicists say we are made of stardust. Intergalactic debris and far-flung atoms, shards of carbon nanomatter rounded up by gravity to circle the sun. As atoms pass through [...]
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Saarinen’s Gateway Arch is a structure that combines both strength and flexibility. It is resilient, but not stubbornly so. The Gateway Arch provides a nice metaphor for business disputes… and for those who don’t like metaphors, perhaps this ancient proverb will suffice: Let a person always bend like a reed and not be hard [...]
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About a year ago I used some old, discarded lumber to build a pair of 6 foot long, 6 inch deep shelves. When I first picked up the wood, I decided that the cleaner side of each piece would be the face-up side. The side with more stains and blemishes would go face-down. However, after I [...]
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