Michael Cervieri
@ronaut
Pondering bees and trees along the CT-RI border. Writing children’s stories.
Michael Cervieri
michael.cervieri.com
George Leonard on how mastery is nothing but a series of plateaus with brief spurts of progress:
“The most important lessons here — especially for young people — is that even if you’re shooting for the stars, you’re going to spend most of your time on a plateau. That’s where the deepest, most lasting learning takes place, so you might as well enjoy... See more
“The most important lessons here — especially for young people — is that even if you’re shooting for the stars, you’re going to spend most of your time on a plateau. That’s where the deepest, most lasting learning takes place, so you might as well enjoy... See more
Brain Food: A Series of Plateaus
I have stored everything and saved nothing. – Ezra Klein
If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first. – Mark Twain, supposedly.
People do not want to believe it is true - Christian Åslund, The photographer capturing the vanishing of glaciers
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
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
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
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.... See more
Scott Hambrickx.com“I could see and feel with my own eyes how it feels to live with the land and somehow that reawakened those memories again. The memories of our ancestors. And now I feel it. I feel it in my bones. I feel it in my blood. I feel it circling through my body.” - Kalyanee Mam