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Why Crazy People Make Better Bloggers – Forbes

 

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Why Crazy People Make Better Bloggers – Forbes. I disagree with this article. This kind of advice hurts those people’s future job prospects and life. Do you want someone to be popular because you are unstable, or because you are respected? It’s easy to burn quickly through your 15 minutes of fame, but its a better feeling to inspire others to greatness, not pity or laughter.

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Suffering from consumption (via Utopia for Cynics)

I think at times we all suffer from addiction to things that seem good for us.

Suffering from consumption I’m fighting my way through a bout of “gadget envy”.  I really want to get a new phone, but there is no actual reason for me to get one.  My current phone works fine and I have no professional reason to need a pho … Read More

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Questions for Ray Kurzweil (via Tired Road Warrior)

Ray Kurzweil at ACE
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Famous author. Many people involved in technology also are futurist or transhumanist believers as well.

Futurist (and transhumanist) Ray Kurzweil in Time maganzine (6 Dec 2010) provided answers to the following questions” Is it a mistake to use the events of the recent past as a method of predicting the future? Our intuition about the future is linear.  But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference.  If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30.  If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion. What … Read More

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