tone matches theirs. I’m still not sure I totally grok this in the way that Elgin meant, but I’ll take a stab at it. If you speak to someone using vocabulary and concepts that don’t match theirs, the mismatch will impede understanding. See my starting point about communication goals...
I do not want to live in a world where samizdat is the only way to learn things not in the official story. USA Today, Twitter, and Facebook either have never heard the term or think that world is a good one. They have the ability to make it so. In that case, I’ll publish it...
and loyalties often impede the adaptation of the social system to the new technical practices. There is a reason why the first value of the Agile Manifesto is “individuals and interactions over processes and tools” and not the other way around. Perhaps we can learn why such technically focuse...
The other way to shift the “helicopter parenting” paradigm is by making it easy and normal for parents to let go. That’s what Let Grow is doing in the schools. We have a simple curriculumschools can access called “The Let Grow Experience.” And it’s free! The centerpiece of T...
This article examines Arthur Waley’s abridged translation of “Journey to the West”, titled “Monkey”, and its influence on magic wind narrativity using narrative theory and (re)framing concepts. The research categorises the narrative significance of the magical wind in the source text and high...
It’s just a cool way to have a monthly open house open to the public without all the fanfare that would come with calling it an open house. I recommend it. There is a great emerging tech startup and entrepreneur community developing in Reno centered on Startup Row with the Reno ...
aforementioned story when I say “back then”, it really means that more people than not used to be open to a greater truth, and new ways of seeing things. (of course many don’t, but there is nothing I can do about those kinds of people). Today, I don’t feel that way anymore...
. Sweat, which does not usually impede vision, would be a functional alternative. (Men’s evolutionary tendency for increased excretion efficiency over women is evidenced by the way they urinate. In the heat of the jungle, pursuing a wooly mammoth, it pays not to have to sit down to pee....
Which should tell you something about the way bureaucracy combined with securiry DOES NOT work… Any way, as they say, “Plenty more stories where those came from…”. [1] I used to think it was at the end of the 1980’s when things turned dishonest… But in more recent time...
To organize or bring about To act in advance of, especially with preventative measures To make allowances or be prepared for a given variable … more ▼ Verb ▲ To prepare or pave the way for something to occur “We must say goodbye to our friends and colleagues andprepare forthe newcomers...