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Sam Harris: A Contemplative Science

The retreat might have been a significant event in the history of ideas. It could mark the beginning of a discourse on ethics and spiritual experience that is as unconstrained by dogma and cultural prejudice as the discourses of physics, biology, and chemistry are. Other retreats for scientists are now being planned. What effect this will have on our collective understanding of the human mind remains to be seen. But we could be witnessing the birth of a contemplative science.

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november 2011 by mwfogleman

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What People Don't Get About My Job: From A(rmy Soldier) to Z(ookeeper) - Derek Thompson - Business - The Atlantic

Philosopher; Video; Nanny; Unemployed.

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september 2011 by mwfogleman

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Paris Review - The Art of Nonfiction No. 3, John McPhee

He published articles in medical journals, but he had no interest in being a writer. But from the earliest time I can remember, I would hear him, especially when he was driving, kind of speaking to himself and mumbling words that he obviously thought were appealing. He liked the rhythm. He said words over and over to himself, half aloud. And I heard him doing this and completely understood what he was doing: my dad was full of affection for words, and it showed in these little quiet ways.

I picked up the same tendency. If some word appealed to me, I’d say it over and over again. It would go around in my head the way the snatches of a song would.

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At Princeton High School I had the same English teacher for the first three years. Her name was Olive McKee. She put a great deal of emphasis on writing. In the average week, she would have us do three compositions. We could write anything we wanted to—poetry, fiction, or a story about a real person. But what it had to have, even if it was a poem, was a diagram of some kind that showed the structure of what we had done. You had to turn that in with your piece.

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He spoke so softly. I was awestruck: the guy’s the editor of The New Yorker and he’s this mysterious person. It was the most transforming event of my writing existence, meeting him, and you could take a hundred years to try to get to know him, and this was just the first day. But he was a really encouraging editor. Shawn always functioned as the editor of new writers, so he edited the Bradley thing. So I spent a lot of time in his office, talking commas. He explained everything with absolute patience, going through seventeen thousand words, a comma at a time, bringing in stuff from the grammarians and the readers’ proofs. He talked about each and every one of these items with the author. These were long sessions. At one point I said, Mr. Shawn, you have this whole enterprise going, a magazine is printing this weekend, and you’re the editor of it, and you sit here talking about these commas and semicolons with me—how can you possibly do it?

And he said, It takes as long as it takes. A great line, and it’s so true of writing. It takes as long as it takes.

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When I was starting out, I said to friends, I’m looking for ideas.

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august 2011 by mwfogleman

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Em dashes—why writers should use them more sparingly. - By Noreen Malone - Slate Magazine
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may 2011 by mwfogleman

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The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance
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april 2011 by mwfogleman

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Can a complete novice become a golf pro with 10,000 hours of practice? - St. Petersburg Times
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april 2011 by mwfogleman

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What Is It About 20-Somethings? - NYTimes.com
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august 2010 by mwfogleman

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Beyond City Limits - By Parag Khanna | Foreign Policy
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august 2010 by mwfogleman

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How TED Connects the Idea-Hungry Elite | Fast Company
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august 2010 by mwfogleman

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Wired 11.05: View
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july 2010 by mwfogleman

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A Tax Form for the Marginally Employed - NYTimes.com
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july 2010 by mwfogleman

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The Defense of Computers, the Internet and Our Brains - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
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june 2010 by mwfogleman

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The State of the Internet Operating System - O'Reilly Radar
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april 2010 by mwfogleman

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What Makes Us Happy? - The Atlantic (June 2009)
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june 2009 by mwfogleman

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Lessons on Community Management from the Open Source World, Angela Byron
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june 2009 by mwfogleman

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The radioactive boy scout: When a teenager attempts to build a breeder reactor—By Ken Silverstein (Harper's Magazine)

The psychological profiles of pioneering American physicists are remarkably similar. Frequently the eldest son of an emotionally remote, professional man, he–almost all were men–was a voracious reader during childhood, tended to feel lonely, and was shy and aloof from classmates.

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may 2009 by mwfogleman

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Tim Ferriss - Lifestyle Design and The 4-Hour Workweek - Tim Ferriss - Musings and Articles
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Techies volunteering to save the world
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may 2009 by mwfogleman

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Gene Callahan, The Right to Walk Away (2003)

I believe the recognition of a right to secession is the single greatest advance toward liberty that is within our grasp. Because many people today acknowledge the right to self-governance, persuading them to acknowledge the right to secession only entails making explicit the logical implication of values that they already hold.

Furthermore, the abolition movement offers us an historical precedent for the approach I suggest. Rather than engage in endless disputes among themselves, the abolitionists united behind a single, simple principle: human slavery is wrong.

Similarly, libertarians, of whatever stripe, today might agree that the bondage of individuals to a state that they had no say in choosing is wrong. Whatever particular laws we advocate, we could unite behind the idea that human freedom is advanced when each person can choose the body of law under which he wishes to live.

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april 2009 by mwfogleman

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Productivity 101

Work in a field you love, take advantage of audio learning, eliminate interruptions, log your time usage, use timeboxing.

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april 2009 by mwfogleman

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A Textbook Example of What’s Wrong with Education | Edutopia
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april 2009 by mwfogleman

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The high costs of running YouTube. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine

It's possible that over the next few years, Google's engineers could find a way to reduce dramatically the costs of hosting such a service. (They're capable of amazing things.) But that proposition is iffy. As Wayne argues, there's a very real possibility that YouTube as we know it is doomed. The company may have to institute restrictions to keep its bandwidth in check, or it could unveil any number of pay-per-use schemes (as some other video sites have done). Then the video free-for-all that we've grown to love will come to an end.
That would be unfortunate. Time wasn't wrong: YouTube and its fellow user-contributed sites really did change the world. Too bad nobody could find a way to pay for it.

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april 2009 by mwfogleman

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Gizmodo - Discovering Music in 2009: The New Tools - New Music Discovery
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april 2009 by mwfogleman

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Rachel Kramer Bussel: The Case For Open Relationships

Before you think I'm advocating you rush off and beg your spouse to open up your marriage, please note that open relationships aren't for everyone. It's not as simple and easy as it may look from the outside. The polyamorous people I know put a lot of time and effort into all of their relationships to make sure everyone's on the same page. Lastly, this is not an either/or choice you must make now and stick with forever. Some couples drift in and out of monogamy depending on what works best for them at any given time. And polyamory is not a panacea; if you think you'll cure any and all sexual longings or be free of jealousy simply by taking on new partners, you're probably in for a rude awakening. I can't say whether monogamy's right for you or not, only that monogamy clearly isn't right for everyone, or we wouldn't have the levels of cheating and divorce that we do.

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april 2009 by mwfogleman

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Regina Lynn's Sex Drive: Internet Pushes Polyamory to Its 'Tipping Point'

"We need to get away from the idea that there's only one right way to live," Veaux says. "That idea has arguably caused more destruction and more damage to more societies over history than any other single idea you can name."

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april 2009 by mwfogleman

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How Google Is Making Us Smarter | Machine-Brain Connections | DISCOVER Magazine

That doesn’t mean we must approve of every possible extension of the mind, and even good extensions will have some drawbacks. Socrates worried that writing would make people forgetful and unwise. Sure enough, writing did rob us of some gifts, such as the ability to recite epic poems like The Iliad from memory. But it also created a much larger pool of knowledge from which people could draw, a pool that has continued to expand (or, dare we say, continued to extend?).
If we’ve learned anything since Clark and Chalmers published “The Extended Mind,” it’s not to underestimate the mind’s ability to adapt to the changing world.

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april 2009 by mwfogleman

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What Do Women Want? - Discovering What Ignites Female Desire - NYTimes.com

“I feel like a pioneer at the edge of a giant forest,” Chivers said, describing her ambition to understand the workings of women’s arousal and desire. “There’s a path leading in, but it isn’t much.” She sees herself, she explained, as part of an emerging “critical mass” of female sexologists starting to make their way into those woods. These researchers and clinicians are consumed by the sexual problem Sigmund Freud posed to one of his female disciples almost a century ago: “The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul, is, What does a woman want?”

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april 2009 by mwfogleman

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Human evolution and music | Why music? | The Economist

The truth, of course, is that nobody yet knows why people respond to music. But, when the carol singers come calling, whether the emotion they induce is joy or pain, you may rest assured that science is trying to work out why.

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april 2009 by mwfogleman

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How to Craft Your Personal Business Model - FreelanceSwitch - The Freelance Blog

Making these decisions can be overwhelming–even if you’re a veteran. This past January, for the second time in my career, I abandoned a comfy full-time gig and jumped whole hog into a completely open calendar. Coming up on my last day as an employee, I couldn’t wait to be free again. I felt like queen of the world: I had potential clients offering me paid work, volunteer opportunities to dive into, a long list of new skills and technologies I couldn’t wait to teach myself, and a calendar full of free time. It felt great.
Then I spent my first day as a freelancer wrapped in a blanket, wide-eyed and paralyzed, wondering what in the world I’d gotten myself into. That didn’t feel great.
It was time to do some soul-searching. I picked up a notebook and pen and got to teasing out a bigger vision that would help me make sense of the smaller decisions. I was crafting my personal business model.

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april 2009 by mwfogleman

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Public Discourse, More Government, Less God: What the Obama Revolution Means for Religion in America, by W. Bradford Wilcox

Why is this significant for the vitality of religion in America? A recent study of 33 countries around the world by Anthony Gill and Erik Lundsgaarde, political scientists at the University of Washington, indicates that there is an inverse relationship between state welfare spending and religiosity. Gill and Lundsgaarde show, for instance, that Scandinavian societies such as Sweden and Denmark have some of the largest welfare states in the world as well as some of the lowest levels of religious attendance in the world. By contrast, countries with a history of limited government—from the United States to the Philippines—have markedly higher levels of religiosity. The link between religion and the welfare state remains robust even after Gill and Lundsgaarde control for socioeconomic factors such as urbanization, region, and literacy. The bottom line: as government grows, people’s reliance on God seems to diminish.

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april 2009 by mwfogleman

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Attribution and Affiliation on All Things Digital - Waxy.org
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april 2009 by mwfogleman

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A Whole Lotta Nothing: This is how Social Media really works

So maybe instead of getting your company on twitter, paying marketers to mention you are on twitter, and paying people to blog about your company, forget all that and just make awesome stuff that gets people excited about your products, hire people that represent the company well, and when your stuff is so awesome that friends share it with other friends, you may not even need "social media marketing" after all.

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april 2009 by mwfogleman

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Who the Hell Is Enrolling in Journalism School Right Now?

Who the hell are all these people enrolling in journalism schools? Forbes has reported today that enrollment is soaring, even though nearly one-sixth of newspaper jobs have evaporated since 2001, and those left pay an average of $40,000 a year— just slightly more than journalism school will cost you. I know people do crazy things in a recession, but taking out a student loan for a degree that won’t give an edge in a wheezing industry actually makes getting an MBA look smart.

It’s not that I’m pessimistic about the future for good journalists. Quite the opposite, in fact. Journalism isn’t dying; it’s just in a period of extreme volatility. And in any time of volatility, there’s huge room for opportunity. But you’re not going to learn how to exploit it in a stuffy classroom taught by people who got there by working at newspapers.

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april 2009 by mwfogleman

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Meacham: The End of Christian America | Newsweek Religion | Newsweek.com

The percentage of self-identified Christians has fallen 10 points in the past two decades. How that statistic explains who we are now—and what, as a nation, we are about to become.

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april 2009 by mwfogleman

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Five Technologies Tim O'Reilly Says Point Past Web 2.0 - ReadWriteWeb

Tim O'Reilly, co-founder of the Web 2.0 Conference, gave a short address on the 5th anniversary of that event at tonight's Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco and offered some thoughts on what's going to come next. He discussed five applications that he believes point the way.

Two themes stood out: sensors will surpass humans in front of their keyboards as the primary data source on the web and Moore's Law will need to be applied to humanity's greatest problems.

It's time for the Web to get smarter, O'Reilly said. Having just become a grandfather, he drew a parallel between the evolution of the web and human development. The early days of search engines were like a child just putting things in its mouth, wondering what they are. Now the web is starting to use all of its senses together to do do something with the information it has access too. Here's where he's seeing that happen.

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april 2009 by mwfogleman

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Daring Fireball: Complex

“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.”

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april 2009 by mwfogleman

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Interview: Gmail's product manager on Labs, beta, the future - Ars Technica

Jackson would not comment directly on what's in store for Gmail, though he did leave the possibility of a dedicated iPhone client on the table. From his responses throughout the interview, it sounds like we can expect a generally healthy pace of innovation. Google clearly knows it has an audience of power users who, Jackson said, "are representative of where all users will be in two years." You can expect Labs to be used even more for experimentation and prototyping of new features, and for Gmail itself to keep pushing the boundaries of not only e-mail, but modern communications.

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march 2009 by mwfogleman

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Putting a Bolder Face on Google - Biography - NYTimes.com
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march 2009 by mwfogleman

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How the Kindle will change the world. - By Jacob Weisberg - Slate Magazine
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march 2009 by mwfogleman

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