Buckminster Fuller guide

Good Magazine have published a 6 page guide on Buckminster Fuller. I recommend it as a good introduction to his achievements.

Things we learned project

Last Saturday, I watch Stefan Sagmeister's things I have learned in my life so far at TED with the Bucky Group. I was interested in his list of things learned. I search online and found the list. I have a list of things learned too. I shared Stefan's list and my list with the group. I ask them to share their things learned. I got reply from Joo Hock and Michael. I start to see value in creating a project to collect things we have learned.

I decide to start the things we learned project.

What have Stefan Sagmeister learned in his life so far?

What have Stefan Sagmeister learned in his life so far?

1. Helping other people helps me.
   
2. Having guts always works out for me.
   
3. Thinking that life will be better in the future is stupid. I have to live now.
   
4. Organising a charity group is surprisingly easy.
   
5. Being not truthful always works against me.
   
6. Everything I do always comes back to me.
   
7. Assuming is stifling.
   
8. Drugs feel great in the beginning and become a drag later on.
   
9. Over time I get used to everything and start taking for granted.
   
10. Money does not make me happy.
    
11. My dreams have no meaning.
    
12. Keeping a diary supports personal development.
    
13. Trying to look good limits my life.
    
14. Material luxuries are best enjoyed in small doses.
    
15. Worrying solves nothing.
    
16. Complaining is silly. Either act or forget.
    
17. Everybody thinks they are right.
    
18. If I want to explore a new direction professionally, it is helpful to try it out for myself first.
    
19. Low expectations are a good strategy.
    
20. Everybody who is honest is interesting.
    

Source:

Things I have learned in my life so far

CR Blog

What have I learned in my life so far?

1. Nothing is permanent ( including this list ).
   
2. Things fail when it is not design to deal with changes.
   
3. One can reduces one's ignorance by learning more about oneself and the World around us.
   
4. Sharing what I discover about myself and the World around me is intellectual philanthropy.
   
5. There is power when one knows one can be wrong.
   
6. There is always more than one way of seeing and doing things.
   
7. Listen to people who have unpopular views.
   
8. Do one's own thinking.
   
9. If one does not make choices, choices make one.
   
10. Connecting the disconnects
    

What have you learned in your life so far?

Credit Crisis

A simple and elegant video that explains what is:

1. Leverage
   
2. Sub-prime mortgages
   
3. Collateralized debt obligations
   
4. Credit default swaps
   
5. The Credit Crisis
   
   

Source:

The crisis of credit visualized

Jonathan Jarvis

Individual sanity is mass men's madness

There is a legend among the Persian Sufis. Once upon a time, a wise man said that the day will come when all the water in the World except what have been specially collected would disappeared. Then different water will replace it. Anyone who drank the new water would lost his mind.

Only one man took the prophecy seriously and begin to store up water. But the day that have been predicted did not come. Every body of water empty out. The man who had listened to the wise man drank water from his supply. The bodies of water and wells filled up with water again. People thirstily drank this water and everyone of them went crazy. The man who have listened to the wise man continue to drink water only from his own supply and kept his sanity.

He was the only sane person left among the mad men and therefore he was call crazy. He pours out his reserves of real water ( the old water ) on to the ground. He drank the new water and lost his mind. The mad men decided that he has become sane.

Sense from:

Water ( the documentary )

41:05 - 42:27 mins

Principles for a new media literacy

In the age of the Internet and blogging, we are creators as well as consumers of media. With the increase of media and the need to blog, we need more sophisticated media literacy. Let's use the following as a guide.

Sense from:

Principles for a new media literacy

Dan Gillmor

Principles of media consumption:

1. Be skeptical of absolutely everything.
   
2. Although skepticism is essential, don't be equally skeptical of everything.
   
3. Go outside your personal comfort zone.
   
4. Ask more questions.
   
5. Understand and learn media techniques.
   

Principles of media creation:

1. Do your homework, and then do some more.
   
2. Get it right, every time.
   
3. Be fair to everyone.
   
4. Think independently, especially of your own biases.
   
5. Practice and demand transparency.
   

Slide deleted notice

I share presentations that I discover on the Internet on SlideShare. I recently received a request from Dave Gray to take down his slides. There are 4 SlideShare users that might want to learn from his slide as they have selected his slide as their favorites. I thought of informing them one by one. I was also thinking is there a better way as other authors might have the same request.

Thinking… thinking… thinking…

Finally I came up with the idea of a slide deleted notice. The notice helps to inform people:

1. Why the slide is deleted.
   
2. Who wants the slide deleted.
   
3. Does the people who wants the slide deleted has ground to do so.
   
4. Where to go to as an alternative.