The Purpose of Life

I believe The Purpose of Life is to see while I have eyes, to sense with ALL my senses for as long as they reply. I believe The Purpose of Life is to be conscious of connection, discovering unsigned points on paths of opposed direction. I believe The Purpose of Life is to experience what …

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What is Enlightenment?

“Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s own understanding without the guidance of another. This immaturity is self-incurred if its cause is not lack of understanding, but lack of resolution and courage to use it without the guidance of another. The motto of enlightenment is therefore: Sapere aude! Have courage to …

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Filter Falter: The Danger of Filter Bubbles

The following was a speech I gave at my Toastmasters meeting on 11/21/13, fulfilling CC#3, ‘Get to the Point”: When’s the last time you did this? [blow bubbles] Bubbles were fun as a kid, right? Well, it turns out, we kind of like them as adults, too. But…we do it a little differently. We don’t …

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To Joy

Most advice for starting a blog goes something like this: Just start! But like Woody Allen in “Manhattan”, I got caught up with the best way to start. At least that was true until this weekend. On Friday night, I read Bill Joy’s April 2000 article from Wired Magazine entitled, “Why the Future Doesn’t Need …

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