Terence Faircloth
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Retired Professor from Roosevelt University in Chicago. First computer was a TRS80 Model II; first app was Visicalc. Been at it ever since. Geezers can compute!
Terence Faircloth
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During his time on the Pennsylvania Assembly, Ben Franklin befriended a rival by asking to borrow a rare book from his library.
The experience sparked an observation of an interesting psychological phenomenon: “He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.”
When applied to networkin
... See moreThe obvious predicament that the intellect has a difficult time with is the sneaking realization that more is never enough. Or, more is maybe enough for a moment, but it doesn’t last.
Stephen Levine • Grist for the Mill: Awakening to Oneness
Hype erodes. Quality persists.
— James Clear
Communicating with people you don’t like
It is inevitable we all will meet people that we just don’t click with, but there are things we can do to avoid a communications failure:
Don’t mimic their behavior
One of the things that annoyed me about the experience is I came down to his level. I was short and probably a bit condescending back. This of cour
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Eliminating clutter makes room for your true treasures.
Clumsy
A high coefficient of spasticity
Civilization
“Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones. But no. Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken
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The man had made a wholehearted commitment to synthetics.
Social scientists have long understood that statistical metrics are at their most pernicious when they are being used to control the world, rather than try to understand it.