Cultivating the social foundations of the collective-minded organization
by: Chris Valenti
Imagine an organization where each individual worker is networked together forming a single, unified intelligence. The organization never repeats a mistake or re-invents the wheel and each new challenge is an opportunity to use and contribute to the collective brain. Such an organization would be [...]

Often times things that may pertain to the purpose of this site will fly right through my head, several times, without ever landing on this page. As I watched the devastation of New Orleans last month, one of my selfish concerns — in the midst of the human tragedy that will remain seared in [...]

Not too long ago, I posted a bit about the impossibilities of contemplating oblivion, and offered a suggestion on how to go about trying.
A friend gave me a heads up to this posting on But She’s a Girl’s blog, today.

“You’re born an open loop; we’re all on the planet to finish something,”
David Allen
I admit, I am a GTD deciple. Though I am not always the most faithful, my intent to stay true is pure. Phil is the person who converted me.
If you have not heard of David Allen’s, Getting Things Done: The [...]

The philosophy here is that each person has strengths as well as weaknesses. At work, we can either spend a lifetime being miserable and trying to compensate for where we have shortcomings; or we can discover our strengths and spend our time developing them and maximizing them. In this new paradigm, managers can [...]

As the impact of the holocaust recedes out of living memory forever, Amis renders the event anew. The narrator is an intelligent passenger inside the head of a man as his life unfolds in reverse. The narrator is intelligent, though his conclusions are based upon a world where letters first spring from fire and then [...]

If you’ve read any of the articles on this site, you may notice that a common motif is my disdain for how scientific fields have appropriated ancient wisdom from artists and philosophers only to pass it off as their own. Furthermore, they do this with the sanctioned power of the modern purveyors and guardians [...]

Rock “critics” have tried to categorize Clutch since 1994. “They” have classified the band as “Stoner Rock.” I’m not sure I know what that is. Is it the music that played in the background when Scooby and Shaggy were running from the ghosts in the special guest episodes? Personally, I think [...]

Do you like to think? When I say, “think,” I don’t mean playing chess, reading a book, or solving a crossword puzzle. I mean rather, the type of thinking that led to the ancient Greek Atomists discovering the atom. To further clarify, a “yes” answer to the above question precludes the fact [...]

Phil has sent me some good links today. I’m reading Mind Wide Open : Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life, by Steven Johnson right now, so we’ve been having some fun discussions about consciousness and “ego” and the like.