Michael Cervieri
@ronaut
Pondering bees and trees along the CT-RI border. Writing children’s stories.
Michael Cervieri
michael.cervieri.com
People do not want to believe it is true - Christian Åslund, The photographer capturing the vanishing of glaciers
I built and sold a business that allowed me to retire at age 44. It was called Data Storage, Inc., information, knowledge, and records management is my jam.
10 Years ago I gave a speech about the half life of knowledge to a bunch of MBA aspirants at a university business school. This is the Twitter synopsis.
The half life of knowledge is the ... See more
We know it seems weird, but as it turns out, your anal print is unique. - Sanjiv Gambhir, ‘Smart toilet’ monitors for signs of disease
Technology and Clever
Hard tech is the tools themselves. Soft tech is the knowledge and practices needed to effectively use tools. If you give a chimp a bow and arrow, he has the hard tech, but he doesn't have the soft tech. - What if it's 90% soft tech
Journalists aren’t wrong to interview people in power. But when that’s all they do, they let power – rather than expertise – define the boundaries of legitimate public debate. - Peter Beinart
Long ago we had passed the stage of asking what was the meaning of life, a naïve query which understands life as the attaining of some aim through the active creation of something of value. For us, the meaning of life embraced the wider cycles of life and death, of suffering and of dying.
Viktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe; for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them. - The Woodcutter and the Trees
How do you organize your books?
Haphazardly, which is how I believe books wish to be organized
Haphazardly, which is how I believe books wish to be organized
Richard Osman • Richard Osman Has a (Tiny) Bone to Pick With John Grisham
"On land, multicellular life stays pretty close to the surface. But every depth of the ocean is inhabited, in numbers that we are just beginning to appreciate...
"...Comparing the inhabitable terrain of the ocean to that of the land yields a startling statistic: The ocean represents something very close to 99 percent of the biosphere. Spread out as
... See moreProductivity, for me, is a natural outgrowth of passion. If I need to think about “productivity” as a separate discipline from “doing the thing,” something has gone wrong.