OceansOfThought @ July 21, 2008 # One Comment
We are too busy for lunch. I have come to this conclusion after failing to do something I have written in my hand twice today. This is just as impactful because I wrote it all last week. “Get lunch” I know there are people who schedule lunch. Infact there are people I cannot speak with […]
OceansOfThought @ July 17, 2008 # One Comment
…corporations have been enthroned, … and the Money Power of the Country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the People, until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed.” – Abraham Lincoln If you don’t know by now, the US economy is in […]
OceansOfThought @ July 15, 2008 # One Comment
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.– Abraham Lincoln We in America, a society often so prudish we still we can get swift action on cursing TV but still can’t get the EPA to approve rules the court has approved to go forward. We have thought police and […]
OceansOfThought @ July 14, 2008 # One Comment
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. – Abraham Lincoln Let us speak of protesting. Protesting is a something i believe in as strongly as breathing, just as a believe some of the things people in protesting are just plain dumb. I believe i have a right to this opinion […]
OceansOfThought @ July 7, 2008 # Comments Off on On Crime, Laziness and Means, Motive, and Opportunity and Rationality
“I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.” -Abraham Lincoln One may say humans are inherently lazy and when faced with obstylces we tend to take the lesser path. This reasoning comes from the fact that we evaluate things according to their benefit to us. When reason fails, […]
OceansOfThought @ July 3, 2008 # One Comment
God must love the common man, he made so many of them. – Abraham Lincoln In my job, I believe strongly in the “teach a man to fish” principle, and this is how i generally deal with computers and computers users. People, because of the connivence of technology have worked out all manner of things that […]
OceansOfThought @ July 2, 2008 # Comments Off on On Leading Change Management
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. – Abraham Lincoln Leading thru Change management is one of the hardest part of any business. People like to talk a about deliverables and content, hard times and stresses, […]
OceansOfThought @ July 1, 2008 # Comments Off on On the True Promise of Technology – Teaching.
On the True Promise of Technology – Teaching. Remember when video games were just games? It turns out that they can help us with various things if actually applied correctly. A simple hour of playing a First person shooter improves the ability to track moving objects and discern targets last for days … far better […]
OceansOfThought @ June 30, 2008 # 2 Comments
“Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.” – Abraham Lincoln Humans have short memories but long remembrances…. by that we are able to “move on” from tragic circumstances (almost always) but because of that lack of […]
OceansOfThought @ June 22, 2008 # 2 Comments
Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. – Abraham Lincoln A friend asked me about this post, the flow of invisible money, then asked me, which plan was better, was it, less […]