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Progress report: Epic or epigrammatic?
I started the Monday-Friday blogging cycle on July 30 and am surprised to find myself still here and churning out posts. My goal was to do 50 posts — 10 weeks of posting — and I passed the 5-week mark on August 31. So — to echo this blog’s subtitle — what have I been learning as …
Real creativity is the dull and failure-fraught art of giving people things they never asked for. Out of the blue. The color of creativity — Practically Efficient Source: practicallyefficient.com
Soft animal
You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.~ Mary Oliver
Many people wait, wanting to be certain before they step into the flow, not realizing the flow is the path of certainty. Surrender, Dear Ones, surrender and know that through the flow you are accepting that magical invitation to be a glowing, joyous, empowered, treasured dance partner with the universe. ~Archangel Gabriel Daily Message ~ …
Assorted links
The History of Outlining The “Victorian laptop” (hat tip to Taking Note) Straining the soup ever more thinly. Haven’t we said all that there needs to be said about the Pythons? Haven’t they done other work in their long careers? I’d much rather see brand new reissues of the Big Red Book and Brand New …
Claude Shannon, father of information theory, separated information from meaning. His central dogma, “meaning is irrelevant” declared that information could be handled as a mathematical abstraction independent of meaning. The consequence of this freedom is the flood of information in which we are drowning. The immense size of modern databases gives us a feeling of …
Inspire yourself
In my PhD methods class, our professor asked us to pick something that inspired us — it could be a song, a research article, a movie, a book chapter — make a brief presentation on it and on how it inspired us in our work. Inspiration can come from unexpected sources and feed us in …
This, then, may be the one great secret that keeps the uninitiated out of the “inner circle”, and those “in the know” secure in their art: the ability to care. –John Carney Magic — Jamie Phelps Source: jxpx777.com
My first year in graduate school, I took a course in structural mechanics taught by Bob Eubanks, a remarkable man who combined highly theoretical research with a very down-to-earth personality. He was powerfully built, bald with a little moustache, and had a habit of making noises as he breathed that combined humming, growling, and snorting. …
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