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Are we ready for the next book?
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Free time to ponder?
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Hi Thom - Thanks for this suggestion. I hadn't heard of the book before. We're revving up for another month of discussion - this time around Jeff Jarvis' latest What Would Google Do? Would love to consider Grabbing Lightning for future selection.
I've thoroughly enjoyed the last two books, but I'm ready for the next one. If you're taking suggestions, how about "Grabbing Lightning" by O'Connor et.al.?
- thom
There is dignity in being able to take care of your family. The microlending programs I've experienced understand that. It's the driving force that encourages the borrower to repay the loan. I think the "missing middle" comes from the fact that pers…
I just finished the book last night - it's a lot to chew on. I agree that poverty is something that CAN be eradicated - unfortunately I'm a little too cynical to think it will be eradicated in my lifetime. The one thing I find most comforting is tha…
That is very cool about Safari/PDF for off-line access. You touched on something that I need to get better at: tagging. I used to blog everything that I came across, but am not playing around with Delicious as I think that might be easier. However,…
Amanda,
I've been playing around with Evernote and OmniFocus on my Mac laptop and my iPhone for this sort of thing, and while I'm not sure which one I will gravitate more to (maybe both), it's really helped keep tabs on interesting things to 'noodl…
When you said "In an era of information overload filtering and indexing becomes a very important capability", you've tapped into something I want to learn more about. Harold Jarche talks about personal knowledge management on his blog.
I'd love to…
Amanda I love the idea of "active learning". It is an always on kind of thing because you never know when you are going to stumble upon that great insight. The notion of "starring" something for later reference is an important idea to think more abo…
Saul - what a refreshing, positive perspective. I agree that the 'thinking' may be less about having free time and more about what we choose to do with the great things we encounter every day. Here's a slightly different analogy... after a meeting w…
While I am a huge believer in structuring work to allow the necessary time to think it is also clear to me that having a "mindset" that values new ideas is also important. We have all been around many people that even given unlimited time to think a…
I'm interested in how some of those who are in the software arena might answer the question. In hardgoods, we still rely on patents and intellectual property protection to help us stake out the territory we wish to own. Patent issuances do not happn…
Just a follow-up note. I had a last-minute trip to Miami last week, which gave me (shockingly enough) some free time to read and ponder the book! I read through it cover to cover on the way down and a bit of the flight back. Just an amazing read. I'…
The thing about Priestly is that (a) he had several benefactors over the course of his lifetime who put no conditions or constrains around his output and (b) he wasn't looking for a financial windfall.
Priestly was a true tinkerer who conducted his…
Here is a video of Steven Johnson's book discussion on Monday on Joseph Priestly's benefactors and how he got the time to sort of embrace this "time to think" mentality.
I think it comes back to the 'pace of communication' comment from the talk yesterday. When communication via mobile phone, email, SMS, twitter, etc. is so instant, we forget that just because we CAN be reached instantly doesn't mean we necessarily h…
Three years ago I "retired"after 25 of starting up and then running a non-profit organization. I worked 60-70 hours a week. Now that I am consulting, and working less hours, I see that I could have spent much less time working if I had spent more ti…
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