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Posts from March 2007

5-10 Goals, Pinged

Nneka at Balanced Life Center pinged me with 5-10 goals. I’m not a normal chain forwarded, everyone says “this time it’s different“. This time, however, it is different.
I’m not sure when I last thought about goals, and I don’t think I’ve ever published them online. So, here in public view are [...]


A Beautiful Summary of Why Metrics

“In our excitement to produce what we could only make before with great effort, many of us have lost sight of the real purpose of quantitative displays — to provide the reader with important, meaningful, and useful insight.”
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Moving Towards Technological Singularity, or the Reverse?

Donal’s blog raises the question about the movement of technology. He gives the direction of movement towards a Technological Singularity. I believe the opposite is happening. I also believe that the rate of ‘giant leaps’ is actually slowing down.
Kevin Kelly’s talk on Biology and Technology (youtube at bottom), is one of the [...]


Posted
9 March 2007 @ 10pm

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Other, Self

Carl Jung, on Death and Beyond Belief

Here’s a great youtube video about Death and belief. Jung makes a very interesting statement about ‘living on’, looking forward to the next day, as a way of living properly. To look ‘to the great adventure’ of life, not the disabling past. It’s almost ‘The Secret‘ like advice.
He also talks about beyond [...]