Heinlein Lives On

For myself, I never tended to goosestep into pushing the writings, or personal life of Heinlein into a cookie cutter corner of human thought or political persuasion. To me, the basic Heinlein is enough: Hard Work, excessive logical thought, and extreme appreciation of sexy science or logical beauty, and pragmatism above all else. Authority? The authority at the ‘platoon’ level is plenty to run several universes (20 or so). Loyalty? To the person next to you, in the trench or cube. God? Let’s talk.

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Farnham’s Global Collaboration Guidelines

I am using this blog to officially announce “Farnham’s Global Collaboration Guidelines” as a blog posting, as well as a comment to a blog and as a tweet: “Work Hard, Keep Your Day Job, Be Adult, Have Fun, Hug the Dog, Save the World.” (with 17 characters left…ha!

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Through the Looking Glass of Virtual Reality

From “I think therefore I am” to “Thinking is the best way to travel” of so much of our knowledge base, VR and our perception of the real world is based upon the most fabulous, as yet unmatched, CPU – our brain. If we can imagine the power of taking a dizzying array of light [...]

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Hello world! 2.0

26 Feb 2008 Update: Be sure to watch Download: The True History of the Internet on the Science Channel starting March 3… Original posting 27 Dec 2007: The first computer program I typed in was on my VIC 20 (20K RAM) by Commodore, purchased from Sears, hooked up to a $10 B/W TV from a [...]

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Knowledge Networking

…What we (myself and my colleagues) are really pursuing is better described as Knowledge Networking…The discovery, cataloging, organization and caretaking of knowledge resources is a more holistic pursuit of information management, collaboration, and synergy, as practiced by professionals with multiple skills background, and their feet in many rooms…that’s Real Life Networking that will keep me working (and contributing) far longer, and will help us all do all the green things that are important.

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A Purposeful Life

While browsing the stuff available to put in my FaceBook profile, I ran across “Which Chinese Philosopher Are You?” Hmmmm, what an interesting concept. So I took the short quiz, and up popped my new ‘old’ mentor. Mo-Ztu (Mozi) lived 410-390 BCE, during the Warring State Period and was known as a pacifist and a [...]

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