For the first time in a generation, it is not religion, nor the adventures of a single leader, nor wars with Israel that have energized the region. Across Egypt and the Middle East, a somewhat nostalgic notion of a common Arab identity, intersecting with a visceral sense of what amounts to a decent life, is driving protests that have bound the region in a sense of a shared destiny.
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There are no technical impediments to a fully transparent Congress. Computers can handle this. The challenges, however, are institutional and practical.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960s, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.’’ It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
I believe there was a time when Americans traveling abroad would regularly check for mail and telegrams at the nearest American Express office; it was their link to home. Maybe the increasingly common Apple Stores have become the modern-day equivalent.
So, let’s get this straight. The chief scientist at the top U.S. government bee-science institute completed research two years ago implicating a widely used, EPA-approved pesticide in what can plausibly be called an ecological catastrophe—the possible extinction of honeybees, which pollinate a huge portion of U.S. crops. Why are we just now hearing about this—and why are we only hearing about it through an obscure documentary filtered through a British newspaper?
Everything is different now. Everything feels more authentic. We can choose to embrace this authenticity, and use it to construct a new system of relations, one which does not rely on secrets and lies. A week ago that would have sounded utopian, now it’s just facing facts. I’m hopeful. For the first time in my life I see the possibility for change on a scale beyond the personal. Assange has brought out the radical hiding inside me, the one always afraid to show his face. I think I’m not alone.
It’ll be super interesting to see how Facebook’s development culture evolves over time — and especially to see if the culture can continue scaling as the company grows into the thousands-of-employees. What do you think? Would “developer-driven culture” work at your company?
Oh, Assange is by no means alone. Two-spacers are everywhere, their ugly error crossing every social boundary of class, education, and taste.
Conclusions/Significance – This study therefore indicates that insects could serve as a more environmentally friendly alternative for the production of animal protein with respect to GHG and NH3 emissions. The results of this study can be used as basic information to compare the production of insects with conventional livestock by means of a life cycle analysis.
at first, i thought that @corybooker’s blizzard tweets made for goodwill & good PR, but don’t represent actual good leadership or management because Mayor-as-grandma’s-shoveler or Mayor-as-311-operator-on-twitter isn’t scalable. And he should spend his time building capacity and infrastructure and systems for how a city handles the blizzard. he should be in meetings, making important decisions.
imagine a bloomberg or obama responding to citizen call-for-help tweets… ridiculously unscalable.
but now i realize there’s potential in what he’s doing that can have even more scalable impact: he’s modeling what he wants citizens to do: engage. if people tune in and see him engaged & helping people — and he calls on THEM to engage & help each other, the impact potential is incredibly scalable.
when has bloomberg or obama actually, specifically, directly asked people to help each other or connect with each other?
ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do with each other.
and if they asked while they were in-the-trenches modeling what they wanted other people to do — not in a photo-opp way, but in this @corybooker-twitter way — a lot of people would get swept up & involved. and/or feel obliged.
it’s like a company where the execs are doing, making, building — not strategizing and meeting.
in a human-scale 21st century, the giant organization organization-man feels antiquated — while @corybooker shovels, tweets, and inspires others to do the same.
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