Profile on TED.com. Meche.mit.edu/documents/slloyd_thesis.pdf. How World of Warcraft Could Save Your Business and The Economy. Meditation Research. Human+ — smartdust, spooks, psychics, and transhumans. Each artificial neuron would communicate with the brain via electrical signals and would be able to wirelessly interface with external hardware, enabling brain-computer networking.
Once such networking was established, David noted with interest, Internet telephony could be quite simply deployed. Synthetic telepathy, in other words. … Such advanced technology may be developed in a couple of decades, transforming us into a “telepathic” species. Or both? These are some of the questions that U.K. Adapted from a movie script, the novel combines reality-warping and edge-of-your seat action scenes reminiscent of Wild Palms, Vanilla Sky, and The Bourne spy series.
Smartdust and spooks David, a Manhattan heroin drug addict, is rehabibiliated by Dr. Their new company, Thetis, plans to accumulate wealth beyond their wildest dreams. Singularity or Spirituality? I am persuaded that advanced transhumanist technologies will bring very radical change, someday soon. Meditation Research. Authenticleaders.org. Digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1021&context=managementfacpub. Discovering your authentic leadership. [Harv Bus Rev. 2007. Authentic Leadership Peter Drucker. Authentic Leadership. The February 2007 edition of the Harvard Business Review (HBR) contains one of the best articles I’ve read in that journal in quite a while.
The article, titled “Discovering Your Authentic Leadership” by Bill George, Peter Sims, Andrew McLean and Diana Mayer, is an adaptation of George & Sims’ book titled “True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership” due out in March 2007 (find out more about the book at The article discusses the topic of being an authentic leader, or in other words, be the leader that you are capable of being.
I have found that most books on leadership written by ‘experts’ in the field try to teach a person how to be a leader by ‘acquiring’ traits of other successful leaders and/or imitating those leaders. The article seems to address this same issue with the following excerpt: No one can be authentic by trying to imitate someone else. Leadership is not simply something we do. The journey to authentic leadership begins with understanding the story of your life.
Reversing the Decline in Big Ideas - Max Marmer. Many venture capitalists are up in the arms because their returns are down, their funds are drying up, and there appear to be a declining number of entrepreneurs pursuing big ideas.
They’ve turned to blaming angel investors for encouraging “an entire generation of entrepreneurs [to build] dipshit companies and hoping that they sell to Google for $25 million.” They say, “this ‘think small’ attitude is driving entrepreneurs who may otherwise build the next Google or Microsoft to create something much less interesting instead.” And this has implications for the whole ecosystem because, “then everyone loses. No IPO. No 20,000 tech jobs. Unfortunately, venture capitalists have mixed up their causality. These founders don’t want to change to world. Boosting new memories with wakeful resting. (Credit: stock image) Memory can be boosted by taking a brief wakeful rest after learning something verbally new, research by psychological scientist Michaela Dewar and her colleagues has shown.
“Our work demonstrates that activities that we are engaged in for the first few minutes after learning new information really affect how well we remember this information after a week,” says Dewar. In two separate experiments, a total of 33 normally aging adults between the ages of 61 and 87 were told two short stories and told to remember as many details as possible. Immediately afterward, they were asked to describe what happened in the story.
Then they were given a 10-minute delay that consisted either of wakeful resting or playing a spot-the-difference game on the computer. Resting quietly without distractions In one study, the participants were asked to recall both stories half an hour later and then a full week later. The Distributed Mind: Achieving High Performance Through the Collective Intelligence of Knowledge Work Teams. Systems Intelligence - A New Lens on Human Engagement and Action. Evolutionaries Book - Transformational Leadership: The Missing Link in Your Organizational Chart. Www.mindjet.com/pdf/us/Ebook-the-way-we-work.pdf?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRogv6TBZKXonjHpfsXx7OQuWK%2B3lMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4ISsdkI%2FqLAzICFpZo2FFVE%2B6RdoVU. Free currencies : an evening talk with Barbara Marx Hubbard.