Random Musings

Heard this driving in.. how very true.... "Self sufficiency is the road to poverty" . If we try to do everything ourselves how little can we get done. Instead we do things together in teams and groups where each one contributes his part and are "interdependent" ( not dependent!!! ) then collectively we do bigger and better things. Add to this technology and doesn't that multiply our efficiency and output. Add to this our cultural diversity and each ones uniqueness blesses this even more. An economics student would recognize this and its called "comparative advantage". Stephen Covey calls its interdependence. Overall a very good thing.....

"....... a campaign for a child's right to good learning, which is "real, honest and wholesome." Textbooks are the equivalent of processed food -- they are processed learning. The learning's all been done for you. As Dan Meyer says, you just have to know how to decode the text and you get the answers easily. If you don't mind this tedious task, you'll do well. But it's not real learning. It's not what we experience when we learn in real life " Read on.... http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/04/good-learning.html

Nice Story..... A water bearer had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole that he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water. At the end of the long walk from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full. For two years this went on daily. The perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments. But the cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection and that it was able to accomplish only half of what it had been made to do. After two years of what it perceived to be a bitter failure, it spoke to the water bearer one day. "I am ashamed of myself because this crack causes water to leak all the way back to your house." The bearer said to the pot, "Did you notice that there were flowers only on your side of the path but not on the other pot's side? That's because I have always known about your flaw, and I planted flower seeds on your side of the pa...

We should send our godman here http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge.html a faster way to make a buck...

Yay!!! been thinking finally got it done... and why this blog... Must confess first that I love to read. And as part of these readings come across many noteworthy ideas and thoughts that remained etched in memory or have internalized. However there are times that have wanted to look these up to share that cannot find any references to these. So what better way than blog about them. So this is indeed my "personal diary" of sorts.. though nothing too personal :-). Even if one more person benefits and enjoys these aha!! moments like I do then mission accomplished... so njoy!!