October 2011
8 posts
via @donmilleris: "Two Words That Kill Passion" →
Two Words That Kill Passion
http://donmilleris.com/2011/04/19/two-words-that-kill-passion/
“Of course there are people who would say if we only did what was fun and not what we ought to we’d not care about other people at all, we’d just be out having sex and getting drunk all the time. If that’s you, I’m really sorry.I mean that. But not everybody is wired that way. If you set most people...
2 tags
VII
I remember the baby being born who brought the world’s living population to 6,000,000,000. When I was in elementary school.
The world now has 7,000,000,000 living people. An increase of 1,000,000,000…since I was in elementary school.
/Updates/ ::
According to 7BillionActions.org, “it took until 1800 for the world’s population to reach 1 billion.”
Also, here are some...
1 tag
@donmilleris with incisive wisdom
http://donmilleris.com/2010/01/01/living-a-good-story-an-alternative-to-new-years-resolutions/
http://donmilleris.com/2010/03/04/every-good-story-must-endure-conflict/
1 tag
“He [Steve Jobs] had his eye on a much larger vision, one that he felt was an...”
– The Soul of Apple by Kevin Kelly
2 tags
via @brainpicker: Wordnik: The Dictionary... →
Language=tool not rule: “Anyone who’s read a children’s book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it…”
1 tag
1 tag
ET
Sometimes it’s ridiculous how much of another planet it seems like someone else is from. In the way their thought processes run. In their style. Frankly, I’m sometimes uncomfortable by it, as much as I value and love cross-cultural interaction. Maybe it’s actually easier in other parts of the world, because I expect to have to stretch my mind then, I don’t always in...
2 tags
