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Varsity Bookmarking Transparency in the evolution of technology

"As a society, we’ve had 10,000 years to choose to be open and honest with each other, and we have generally chosen not to. But now we’re at a point where new technology plays a critical role in our lives, and technology has no use for our half-truths and doublespeak. They are disruptions in the flow of information. As we are all becoming parts of the machine, our relationships with each other are being ground down to purer, more efficient forms so that they can be put to better use.

We are becoming more honest because it increases the speed at which information can travel. We are becoming less private because to withhold valuable knowledge from the rest of the network is to act selfishly. We are becoming more transparent because that is what the evolution of technology asks of us."

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18 days ago by robertogreco

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“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”

-Henri J.M. Nouwen

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26 days ago by robertogreco

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Able Parris - Moments: Ten Year Anniversary

"Below are some thoughts (in no particular order) on relationships and life in general:

Health is a luxury.
Enjoying life doesn’t require money.
You don’t have to own the house to dance naked in it.
Marry your best friend.
Treat every day special.
Be patient and listen.
Get rid of your television.
Make time for yourself, each of you.
Make time for your own friendships.
Take risks together.
Question everything.
It’s not easy to disagree with crowds, but you must think for yourself.
Photograph (or draw) everything.
Travel as much as possible.
Claim the mundane.
Listen more than you speak.
Music."

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9 weeks ago by robertogreco

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Give it five minutes - (37signals)

"And what did I do? I pushed back at him about the talk he gave. While he was making his points on stage, I was taking an inventory of the things I didn’t agree with. And when presented with an opportunity to speak with him, I quickly pushed back at some of his ideas. I must have seemed like such an asshole.

His response changed my life. It was a simple thing. He said “Man, give it five minutes.” I asked him what he meant by that? He said, it’s fine to disagree, it’s fine to push back, it’s great to have strong opinions and beliefs, but give my ideas some time to set in before you’re sure you want to argue against them. “Five minutes” represented “think”, not react. He was totally right. I came into the discussion looking to prove something, not learn something.

This was a big moment for me."

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march 2012 by robertogreco

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A Reason for Everything . . . — Imprint-The Online Community for Graphic Designers

"There is nothing finer than reality, so far as I'm concerned, and yet there seems to be no life unless reality is coupled with imagination, and attention to reality is coupled to imagination. You give people some simple, abstract marks, which represent some speakable sounds, which represent in turn some thinkable meanings, and they supply the pictures for themselves. Still, reality underlies imagination, an attention to reality trues and tunes imagination. That's how listening works, and listening is the foundation on which reading and writing is based."

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february 2012 by robertogreco

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Why Good Classes Fail [Digital Ethnography blog]

"So rather than focusing on emulating particular techniques and methods, we should be doing everything we can to embrace, inspire, and use our own empathy in order to better understand and relate to our students. It is only from this space that we can effectively generate and use the appropriate techniques and methods for any particular task. In this way, there is no “recipe,” “secret sauce,” or “silver bullet” for teaching effectively that can be used by anybody, anytime, anywhere. Instead, I’m proposing a “generative” method, one in which we “generate” the appropriate method that takes into consideration the broadest range of factors that we can manage to accommodate."

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february 2012 by robertogreco

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All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation | Books | The Guardian

"Economic insecurity has rendered our social life brutally simple: 'us-against-them' coupled with 'you-are-on-your-own'. But the French essayist can inspire radical new forms of co-operation"

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february 2012 by robertogreco

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In Africa, the Art of Listening - NYTimes.com

"It struck me as I listened to those two men that a truer nomination for our species than Homo sapiens might be Homo narrans, the storytelling person. What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other peopleě°˝€™s dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats ě°˝€” and they in turn can listen to ours.

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

So if I am right that we are storytelling creatures, and as long as we permit ourselves to be quiet for a while now and then, the eternal narrative will continue."

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december 2011 by robertogreco

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Tucker Nichols Bravo Commission - YouTube

"Short documentary of the mural at the Bravo TV offices at 30 Rockefeller Center by artist Tucker Nichols."

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december 2011 by robertogreco

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The Aporeticus - by Mills Baker · How to Listen to Jazz

"…part of life is finding new things to love and new ways to love things more deeply, and understanding the creative arts —their scope, history, contemporary contexts, intentionality— opens them up for ever-deeper appreciation. But the most obvious way to learn an art is to become a practitioner of that art, a time-consuming and difficult task, and one impossible to pursue across all fields.

Fields that make such demands have a high barrier to audience entry.

…when I talk to people who find jazz musically intimidating, or unintelligible in its refusal to be as repetitive as popular music, I sometimes tell them to try to hear in the solos little musical structures, any one of which could be a song in itself, but each of which is built, explored, and discarded with breakneck speed. Popular music relies on the ecstasy of trance: repetition of what resonates. Jazz relies more on restless exploration."

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december 2011 by robertogreco

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The American Crawl : Not Quite EverythingEverything: Why Our Approach to Music Education is Kinda Awful

"And all of this is to prelude a simple question: Why did I have to wait so long for this opportunity? While I was already a music “fan” and immersed in family practices that included going to musical performances, singing at family gatherings, and enthusiastically drumming on car dashboards, it really wasn’t until college that I was able to see music as a source of study, as a place to connect passion with purpose, a place to learn new ways of listening…

we leave music instruction into the hands of people who are inclined on the production side of things (and even then in only limited ways such as marching bands and big band numbers). Why do we wait to make the study of music, its history, and the cultural meaning of it an option only for those students that eventually matriculate into universities?"

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december 2011 by robertogreco

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An eightfold path of Sylvianess - Bobulate

"4. Talk to everybody. All the time. About everything.
In the last three years, I have 1,200 emails from Sylvia. And half of those emails are her telling me about some other conversation she’s having – something fascinating she learned, someone she went to lunch with, someone I should look up. She was at the center of this constant circle of communication. And that was not only a very canny business strategy, but it was also a source of personal power: The power to transform people’s lives, and transform not just the lives of people she knew, but the lives of people who experienced the world she made.

I’m really trying hard to figure out: how do you be like Sylvia in that way, really embrace all the people around you?"

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november 2011 by robertogreco

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Warren Ellis » GUEST INFORMANT: Jan Chipchase [See also: http://janchipchase.com/2011/09/the-meanest-mofo/ ]

"The trick on the ground is to be able to read both the persons and the context and to create a situation where interaction with the stranger in their midst is the natural next step. It’s like picking someone up in a bar but without the sexual intent. Show respect before, during and after the conversation, leverage non-verbal cues and pay attention to the details. It’s not just about reading the street – you need to let the street read you. 
One informal research method that you won’t find written up in any manual is called the Meanest Motherfucker – seek out the meanest, most unlikely candidate for an interview (whether or not they have an oedipus complex) and open them up to a meaningful conversation. Child’s play, if only because mean is subjective, and bound by the limits of our experience of the human condition… 
Everyone has a story to tell, most people don’t have someone to listen. 
 
Never ask the question if you’re not willing to listen to, and act upon the answer."

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september 2011 by robertogreco

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Makin' Ads: 5 Rules from Wieden + Kennedy

"Act Stupid. "Our philosophy is to come in ignorant every day. The idea of retaining ignorance is sort of counterintuitive, but it subverts a lot of [problems] that come from absolute mastery. If you think you know the answer better than somebody else does, you become closed to being fresh." 
 
Shut up. "The first thing we do when we meet with clients is listen. We try to figure out what their problems are. Then we come back with questions, not solutions. We write these out and put them on the wall. And then we circle the ones that we think are interesting. More often than not, the questions hold the answer." 
 
Always say yes… 
 
Chase Talent. "Find people who make you better. It's best to be the least talented person in the room. It's reciprocal. It challenges you to keep up." 
 
Be Fearless. "Do anything, say anything. 'You're not useful to me until you've made three momentous mistakes.'…if you try not to make mistakes, you miss out on the value of learning from them."

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august 2011 by robertogreco

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The Disruption Department: More inspiration, this time at home.

"She [13 yo] listed four things that would help her be more creative and more helpful to those around her: 
 
1. A public studio where she could go work on projects. The place would be stocked with all the necessary resources/equipment, as well as ample space for her to work. It would be open whenever, and she could use it whenever she wanted. 
 
2. Essential: A private space. She needs a “room of her own” so to speak, where she can relax, chill-out, think, and be a kid. 
 
3. Her own computer with continuous internet. To be creative, she says she needs access whenever she wants, not just when it’s available or by appointment. 
 
4. A more stable and comfortable living space. 
 
She notes these would all be extremely valuable to becoming the person she wants to be. 
But you know what she said was more valuable? Ears. 
Listen to her! A. said, “I’m tired of people in general looking down on the future. It gets on my nerves when they look down on us and say we can’t do anything”…"

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july 2011 by robertogreco

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Thomas Steele-Maley: Weaving a Dream

"I am reminded that all of our wranglings in education need not lose site of our learning communities, & the humans behind them. We need to come back consistently to young people. Do you remember beyond the banter of struggle what the noise of young people learning sounds like, looks like…? Do you remember the feeling you had; the heartache of happiness, body & mind full of hope…hope?Do not loose these feelings, even in your radical reform work to help, political struggles & battles…But do not rest in your classrooms, learning centers & other space of education either.

Keep coming back to the learner: not the standard, model, curriculum…Weave your dream w/ learners as a learner & never forget they are there, watching, waiting, worried & hopeful. Listen to young people & they will do more than follow your lead, idea, design…they will lead, ideate, & design. Your dream will be successful, inspirational & world altering precisely because you kept coming back…to what matters…"

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july 2011 by robertogreco

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Specs that see right through you - tech - 05 July 2011 - New Scientist ["Boring conversation? Accessories that decipher emotional cues could save your social life – or reveal that you're a jerk"]

"Picard handed me a pair of special glasses. The instant I put them on I discovered that I had got it all terribly wrong. That look of admiration, I realised, was actually confusion and disagreement. Worse, she was bored out of her mind. I became privy to this knowledge because a little voice was whispering in my ear through a headphone attached to the glasses. It told me that Picard was "confused" or "disagreeing". All the while, a red light built into the specs was blinking above my right eye to warn me to stop talking. It was as though I had developed an extra sense.

The glasses can send me this information thanks to a built-in camera linked to software that analyses Picard's facial expressions. They're just one example of a number of "social X-ray specs" that are set to transform how we interact with each other. …Our emotional intelligence is about to be boosted, but are we ready to broadcast feelings we might rather keep private?"

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july 2011 by robertogreco

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A fine book by Robert Coles | clusterflock

"I just finished The Call of Stories:Teaching and the Moral Imagination, and I recommend it. 
 
I love this passage: 
 
"At one point he (William Carlos Williams) reminded us that an important part of our lives would be spent “listening to people tell you their stories”; and in return, “they will want to hear your story of what their story means.”"

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june 2011 by robertogreco

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7. Conversation. Post, Emily. 1922. Etiquette [via: http://berglondon.com/blog/2011/06/24/friday-links-believes-that-the-aliens-are-already-among-us/ ]

"A FEW MAXIMS FOR THOSE WHO TALK TOO MUCH—AND EASILY! 
 
…faults of commission are far more serious than those of omission; regrets are seldom for what you left unsaid…The chatterer reveals every corner of his shallow mind; one who keeps silent can not have his depth plumbed. 
 
Don’t pretend to know more than you do. To say you have read a book & then seemingly to understand nothing of what you have read, proves you a half-wit. Only the very small mind hesitates to say “I don’t know.” 
 
Above all, stop & think what you are saying! This is the first, last & only rule. If you “stop” you can’t chatter or expound or flounder ceaselessly, & if you think, you will find a topic & manner of presenting your topic so that your neighbor will be interested rather than long-suffering. 
 
Remember…the sympathetic (not apathetic) listener is the delight of delights…looks glad to see you…is seemingly eager for your news…enthralled w/ your conversation…gives you spontaneous & undivided attention…"

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june 2011 by robertogreco

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Social Design Strategy | FishoftheBay

"Great products and services depend on their users having great experiences. But it’s not about what users do or how they do it, but rather why. Why they do what they do, why they keep coming back and why they tell their friends. Social Design explains the why behind these great experiences."

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may 2011 by robertogreco

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The Crefeld School: Progressive Education » Essential Questions

"What are the facts?…shows they are informed, critical thinkers who seek facts to support a position…try to get to the bottom of things. 
 
Says who? They are critical thinkers who consider diverse points of view & bias…discriminating readers & viewers. 
 
So what? They put things in perspective, prioritizing issues. 
 
What if? They are able to imagine alternatives…willing to consider multiple solutions to problems. 
 
Is it fair? They are commited to equity & fairness, not just for themselves, but also for others…committed to common good. 
 
What do YOU think? They engage others in a dialogue about the issues, seeking their points of view.…listen to alternative points of view, seeking to understand. 
 
How can I help? They consider how they can contribute to the common good, make a decision, & act. 
 
Would you lend me a hand? They recognize that they are part of an inter-dependent community…not afraid to seek help from their community members…tap into the strength of the community.

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may 2011 by robertogreco

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Re-evaluation Counseling - Home Page

"Re-evaluation Counseling is a process whereby people of all ages and of all backgrounds can learn how to exchange effective help with each other in order to free themselves from the effects of past distress experiences. 
Re-evaluation Counseling theory provides a model of what a human being can be like in the area of his/her interaction with other human beings and his/her environment. The theory assumes that everyone is born with tremendous intellectual potential, natural zest, and lovingness, but that these qualities have become blocked and obscured in adults as the result of accumulated distress experiences (fear, hurt, loss, pain, anger, embarrassment, etc.) which begin early in our lives."

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april 2011 by robertogreco

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The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almost Everything : Monkey See : NPR

"Culling is easy; it implies a huge amount of control & mastery. Surrender, on the other hand, is a little sad. That's the moment you realize you're separated from so much. That's your moment of understanding that you'll miss most of the music, dancing, books & films that there have ever been & ever will be, & right now, there's something being performed somewhere in the world that you're not seeing that you would love.

It's sad, but it's also ... great, really. Imagine if you'd seen everything good, or if you knew about everything good. Imagine if you really got to all the recordings & books and movies you're "supposed to see."…That would imply that all the cultural value the world has managed to produce since a glob of primordial ooze…can [be] gobble[d up]…in one lifetime…

If "well-read" means "not missing anything," then nobody has a chance. If "well-read" means "making a genuine effort to explore thoughtfully," then yes, we can all be well-read…"

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april 2011 by robertogreco

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nickd: Airplane mode.

"Airplane mode is like picking up red phone to call on a superhero, only nobody is calling you…which is great, because I’m a total misanthrope… 
If I go to a bar with somebody and I really want to pay attention to what they are saying – if I want to immerse myself in the conversation, their ideas, etc. – I will flip the phone on airplane mode. If the meeting is fleeting, like I just flew there and we only get one hour a year to catch up: always airplane mode. 
I can’t remember the last time I ever used airplane mode on an actual airplane…manufacturers…should change the name of airplane mode to “interesting person mode.” 
Then we’ll say goodbye & the interesting person will leave & I’ll probably be drunk & inspired a little more. I’ll turn airplane mode back off & get a series of increasingly pitched text messages from my friends…But nothing that went down couldn’t have waited those two hours, of course; & the attention I paid to them, to you, is what matters."

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april 2011 by robertogreco

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Network | better taste than sorry.

"One of my most favorite quotes is by George Bernard Shaw. It displays my motivation why I contribute to the web. 
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” 
And just imagine what could happen if we all share our ideas with each other…Exchange and sharing are two of the most important aspects within blogs. And there are several people who are constantly giving me inspiration. Basically better taste than sorry would not be the same without these people. And I want to take the chance to feature them right here. (the listening doesn’t follow any rule or special order, just like it came into my mind)"

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april 2011 by robertogreco

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Tracking down my online haters - CNN.com

"Bryant says, “I reply all the time by saying, ‘Thank you for writing, I appreciate your opinion though I don’t know why you needed to insult me.’ The general response is ‘Gee, I didn’t think anyone was paying attention.’ And they want to be pals with you. It’s the kick-the-dog syndrome. People believe no one’s listening; they think we’re not people, they think there are these giant monoliths controlling thought. Then when they realize someone is listening, they rediscover their manners.”

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march 2011 by robertogreco

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John Francis walks the Earth | Video on TED.com

"And so I realized that I had a responsibility to more than just me, and that I was going to have to change. You know, we can do it. I was going to have to change. And I was afraid to change, because I was so used to the guy who only just walked. I was so used to that person that I didn’t want to stop. I didn’t know who I would be if I changed. But I know I needed to. I know I needed to change, because it would be the only way that I could be here today. And I know that a lot of times we find ourselves in this wonderful place where we’ve gotten to, but there’s another place for us to go. And we kind of have to leave behind the security of who we’ve become, and go to the place of who we are becoming. And so, I want to encourage you to go to that next place, to let yourself out of any prison that you might find yourself in, as comfortable as it may be, because we have to do something now."

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february 2011 by robertogreco

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Brene Brown: The power of vulnerability | Video on TED.com

"Brene Brown studies human connection -- our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk at TEDxHouston, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity. A talk to share."

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february 2011 by robertogreco

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Noreena Hertz: How to use experts -- and when not to | Video on TED.com

"We make important decisions every day -- and we often rely on experts to help us decide. But, says economist Noreena Hertz, relying too much on experts can be limiting and even dangerous. She calls for us to start democratizing expertise -- to listen not only to "surgeons and CEOs, but also to shop staff.""

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february 2011 by robertogreco

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Bilingualism | Hilery Williams

"It seems that in timed problem solving tests, the thought processes of bilingual people move rapidly from one language to another in order to retrieve information. Thus, knowing 2 words for the same concept creates flexibility and, it is claimed, freer thinking. Naturally this requires practice but this research is evidence of the extreme adaptability and plasticity of the brain." 
 
"Other studies have shown that the cognitive benefits of bilingualism are apparent from 2 years of age. It’s not just that the 2 year olds solve problems better, but that they are less distractible than mono-linguists: they are accustomed to listening and adapting to two modes of speech."

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february 2011 by robertogreco

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Go Forth And Travel - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

"For many years, I have urged young people to take a year off after high school to work and to take time off while in college to travel abroad, ideally alone for at least some of the time. Nearly everyone grows up insular. The problem is that vast numbers of people never leave the cloistered world of their childhood. This is as true for those who grow up in Manhattan as it is for those who grow up in Fargo. And as for college, there are few places as insular and cloistered as the university." 
 
"The moment you meet people of other faiths whom you consider to be at least as decent, at least as religious, and at least as intelligent as you think you are, you will never be the same."

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february 2011 by robertogreco

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Communication Nation: The connected company

"average life expectancy of a human being in 21st century is ~67 years…average life expectancy for a company is…has dropped precipitously, from 75 years (in 1937) to 15 years in a more recent study…

I believe that many of these companies are collapsing under their own weight. As companies grow they invariably increase in complexity, & as things get more complex they become more difficult to control.

…As you triple the number of employees, their productivity drops by half (Chart here).

This “3/2 law” of employee productivity, along with the death rate for large companies, is pretty scary stuff. Surely we can do better?

…secret, I think, lies in understanding the nature of large, complex systems, & letting go of some of our traditional notions of how companies function. [Proceeds to explain]

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february 2011 by robertogreco

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5 Keys to the Art of Listening ["Because the world has a shortage of listeners."]

"1. Listen actively. Listening does not mean just not talking. Look in the person’s eyes, watch their mouth. Lean forward. 
 
2. Don’t think about talking. When many people are listening, you can actually see them thinking…Instead of thinking about what you could say, think about what the other person is saying. 
3. Ask questions. When the other person has finished what they have to say, instead of replying, ask a question… 
4. Don’t fake it. If you’re really not interested in what someone is telling you, don’t pretend you are. I have a hard time listening to a lot of people, particularly braggarts, bores, martyrs & hateful people. I’ll try asking a few questions to get them into a different subject, but most often I usually end up walking away… 
5. Ask better questions. To truly engage someone in a conversation, there is nothing more important than your choice in questions. I am fascinated with the why’s…Take them deeper into their own thoughts and feelings…"

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january 2011 by robertogreco

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Who says our way is the right way? « BuzzMachine

"As I sit on the board of Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, I have been thinking about the different ways people learn. RFB&D gives students the tools to learn by listening. We call that a disability. I think it may soon be seen as an advantage. 
 
A group of Danish academics say we are passing through the other side of what they wonderfully call the Gutenberg Parenthesis, leaving the structured, serial, permanent, authored, controlled era of text & returning, perhaps, to what came before the press: a time when communication and content cross, when process dominates product, when knowledge is distributed by people passing it around, when we remix it along the way, when we are more oral & aural. 
 
That’s what makes me think that RFB&D’s clients may end up w/ a leg up. They understand better than the textually oriented among us how to learn through hearing. Rather than being seen as the people who need extra help, perhaps they will be in the position to give the rest of us help."

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december 2010 by robertogreco

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I Want My Twitter TV! | Fast Company

""Turns out, not everyone wants to use Twitter on television the same way," Sladden says. "Revenge of the liberal-arts majors" might be the best way to describe the method that the media team uses to help partners figure out how best to use Twitter. "Robin will lead a design-oriented brainstorm session to try to tease out in their own words what that relationship will be and what that creative potential is," Sladden says. "It's anthropology, learning their tribal language. It's better when it's native to you, but you can crack the code if you listen, ask good questions, and care enough to understand.""

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november 2010 by robertogreco

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Lacunas - Bobulate

"Frank Bures compares words in other languages to icebergs: [quote]. 
 
Not everyone feels this way: [another quote]. 
 
Alex Ross points out that John Cage once defined music as “the art of listening to other people,” and there’s no better way to be. Language has always felt like that to me: when you’re listening to an unfamiliar language, there’s an art to it that isolates the absolutely concrete sounds so they emerge as essential. Like squinting at a piece of art. Or taking a piece through a crushing editorial process. Each has ways of closing up the lacunas."

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november 2010 by robertogreco

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Ethan Zuckerman: Listening to global voices | Video on TED.com [script here: http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2010/07/14/a-wider-world-a-wider-web-my-tedglobal-2010-talk/]

"Sure, the web connects the globe, but most of us end up hearing mainly from people just like ourselves. Blogger and technologist Ethan Zuckerman wants to help share the stories of the whole wide world. He talks about clever strategies to open up your Twitter world and read the news in languages you don't even know."

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july 2010 by robertogreco

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…My heart’s in Accra » A wider world, a wider web: my TEDGlobal 2010 talk [video here: http://blog.ted.com/2010/07/listening_to_gl.php]

"world is much wider than we generally perceive it....Tools like twitter can trap us in...“filter bubbles”–internet is too big to understand, so we get picture of it that’s similar to what our friends see...wider world is click away, but we’re usually filtering it out...wasn’t how it was supposed to work...in 1970s, 35-40% of average nightly newscast focused on international stories...now 12-15%...same phenomenon in quality US newspapers...pays far closer attention to wealthy nations than poor ones...Most media show this GDP bias...internet isn’t flattening world as Nicholas Negroponte thought it would...making us “imaginary cosmopolitans”

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Social media explained by a 9 year old in one sentence.

"Not long ago I took my daughters to the Portland Children’s Museum – wonderful place – and I couldn’t help but notice this quote written on the wall above the clay making room. To me it so effectively distilled the essence of social media that so I wanted to share it.

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july 2010 by robertogreco

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Quisby - Semantic Satiation [See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation]

""Semantic satiation (also semantic saturation) is a cognitive neuroscience phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who can only process the speech as repeated meaningless sounds."

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july 2010 by robertogreco

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10 ways to encourage students to take responsibility for their learning… « What Ed Said

"1. Don’t make all the decisions 2. Don’t play guess what’s in my head 3. Talk less 4. Model behaviors and attitudes that promote learning. 5. Ask for feedback 6. Test less 7. Encourage goal setting and reflection. 8. Don’t over plan. 9. Focus on learning, not work 10. Organise student led conferences"

[Sound advice. I'm happy to report that tcsnmy follows it.]
[Via: http://twitter.com/gcouros/status/17523402623 ]

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july 2010 by robertogreco

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MY PHONE IS OFF FOR YOU

"We may be sitting at the same table, but we are not together: a common condition of our over-wired world. It is time to question what truly nurtures the human spirit. MY PHONE IS OFF FOR YOU is a revolution; a series of tools designed to help engage in the present moment and spread this idea!"

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june 2010 by robertogreco

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News for You Online

"News for You Online.com is an online news source designed for people who are learning to read, write, or speak English. Seven new stories are posted weekly for 48 weeks a year. These engaging articles are based on world and national news events. They are written at reading levels 3-6 and ESL levels high-beginning and low-intermediate.

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june 2010 by robertogreco

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City Brights: Howard Rheingold : Attention literacy

"Mindfulness and norms, my students helped me see, are essential tools for those who would master the arts of attention.

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may 2010 by robertogreco

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Blog: Frank Chimero (The version of Beowulf that I read in seventh...) [Quote from: http://kehau.tumblr.com/post/590874820/htbagdwlys]

"“version of Beowulf that I read in 7th grade described the hero as having honey in his veins. His greatest virtue was how, when he received his subjects in his great beerhall, he would listen to them–really listen. His eyes & ears wouldn’t leave the speaker for any distraction & they would feel the bees & sweetness & yellow sunshine bore into their soul, & they would glow w/ the warm, sublime knowledge that they were truly being heard. That description has always stuck with me, while the rest of the story is hazy (they wrestled in a mucky pit & someone lost an arm? Mother was pissed?) & I know the reason is stayed w/ me was because I wished I could be as great as Beowulf in that way. If listening with honey can make a Scandinavian warrior great, imagine what it can do for a tiny little designer like me.”

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may 2010 by robertogreco

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TACTILE SOUND & THE PURSUIT OF SILENCE IN A NOISY WORLD | The New York Public Library

"Through his book, In Pursuit of Silence : Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise, George Prochnik explores the benefits of decluttering our sonic world. Speaking with doctors, neuroscientists, acoustical engineers, monks, activists, educators, marketers, and citizens, Prochnik examines what gets lost when we can no longer find quiet. Some of the characters he's encountered on the road include:

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april 2010 by robertogreco

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EduCon 2.2 Reflections - What Do You Think? - Practical Theory

"Caring about our students is about listening to them. About learning about them -- from them. It is, as I've written before, about understanding that if we hope to be a transformative figure in their lives, we must be willing to be transformed ourselves.

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february 2010 by robertogreco

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YouTube - Critical Thinking

"A look at some of the principles of critical thinking." [via: http://beyond-school.org/2009/12/27/how-would-you-use-this-critical-thinking-video]

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december 2009 by robertogreco

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russell davies: true stories told live

"Gladwell suggests people w/ the best stories are those whose jobs involve lots of sitting around w/ their colleagues; cricketers, for instance, or pilots. I'd suggest it's not just the sitting around, it's sitting around while half paying attention to something else (the match, automatic pilot). This leaves enough room for proper story-telling, for holding court, not interrupted by sniping, conversation or one-up-person-ship...I'm still not sure that story is that important to stories. You know, all that beginning, middle, end stuff, narrative arc...Games people go on about it all the time, ad people are convinced they're masters of story miniatures. I think, very often, story is just something to hang all the important bits on. & not in a significant, meaningful way, like a backbone or scaffold...more of a coat-hanger. The actual stuff that connects isn't about plot or narrative; it's texture, observations, images, jokes, juxtapositions, felicitous phrases & little moments of aha."

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november 2009 by robertogreco

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How To Work Better [[Fischli+Weiss]] on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
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september 2009 by robertogreco

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Snarkmarket: The Future of Analphabetic Writing
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august 2009 by robertogreco

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Op-Ed Contributor - Dreams From His Mother [Ann Dunham Soetoro] - NYTimes.com

"There is a final lesson from her work that is worth remembering: No nation — even if it is our bitterest enemy — is incomprehensible. Anthropology shows that people who seem very different from us behave according to systems of logic, and that these systems can be grasped if we approach them with the sort of patience and respect that Dr. Soetoro practiced in her work.

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Requests to the Right Ear Are More Successful Than to the Left | Wired Science | Wired.com

"It’s the latest in a series of studies that show that sound from both human ears is processed differently within the brain. Researchers have noted that humans tend to have a preference for listening to verbal input with their right ears and that given stimulus in both ears, they’ll privilege the syllables that went into the right ear. Brain scientists hypothesize that the right ear auditory stream receives precedence in the left hemisphere of the brain, where the bulk of linguistic processing is carried out.

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june 2009 by robertogreco

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Twitter / Matt Locke: @ewanmcintosh yes. Too man ...

"Too many literacy strategies are about how we want people to speak, rather than learning to listen in new ways"

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june 2009 by robertogreco

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Grammy-Winning Soul Musician John Legend at UPenn Commencement: "A Commitment to Truth Requires a Commitment to Social Justice"

"A commitment to truth also requires what Patricia Hill Collins calls a “politics of empathy.” I would say that a commitment to truth requires a commitment to social justice.

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may 2009 by robertogreco

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metacool: 4: Prototype as if you are right. Listen as if you are wrong.

"To make change in the world, we must constantly engage in a yin-yang cycle of prototyping. ... What is a prototype? A prototype is nothing other than a single question, embodied. In a way quite similar to the scientific method, productive prototyping is about asking a single question at a time, and then constructing a model in the world which brings back evidence to answer your question. In order to believe in the evidence that comes back to you, you need to prototype as if you already know the answer. A strong belief in your point of view will push you to find more creative solutions to the question at hand.

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april 2009 by robertogreco

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A New Day for Intellectuals - ChronicleReview.com

"not so much that Americans oscillate btwn periods of anti & pro-intellectualism, but tend to harbor simultaneously an "ingrained distrust of eggheads" & "a genuine yearning for enlightenment & culture."...Rather than telling ourselves a back&forth tale of virtue vs vigilantism, academics concerned with the life of the mind generally & the academic humanities in particular, might be better served by looking inward & asking what we can do to earn public trust...Among the purposes of liberal education is the inculcation of self-questioning & self-doubt, qualities that many academics have lately — & rightly — found lacking in our political & managerial elite. But can we honestly say that we have held ourselves to the same standard?...balance btwn curatorial & critical has always been essential if humanistic education is to have power & meaning for young. Yet in recent decades the academic humanities have been overwhelmingly ironic and iconoclastic & thereby failed to sustain the balance"

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february 2009 by robertogreco

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A Thought For Tonight... - Practical Theory

"As we all rush to change the world, and as we hear more and more about a sense of urgency to change our schools, let us remember that what we don't know... about our kids, about learning, about what lies ahead of us... vastly outweighs that which know." So nice to hear other educators admit this too.

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february 2009 by robertogreco

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BLDGBLOG: The Year of Listening

"After all, he concludes, "2009 will be a year of listening."

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january 2009 by robertogreco

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Blogging died in 1882 « Learn Online

"We were all then convinced that it was necessary for us to speak, write, and print as quickly as possible and as much as possible, and that it was all wanted for the good of humanity. And thousands of us, contradicting and abusing one another, all printed and wrote - teaching others. And without noticing that we knew nothing, and that to the simplest of life’s questions: What is good and what is evil? we did not know how to reply, we all talked at the same time, not listening to one another, sometimes seconding and praising one another in order to be seconded and praised in turn, sometimes getting angry with one another - just as in a lunatic asylum." - Leo Tolstoy: A Confession. 1882 [pair with: http://radar.oreilly.com/2006/10/homophily-in-social-software.html]

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january 2009 by robertogreco

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Joho the Blog » We. One.

"To live up to the ideal we just embraced, we have to do intentionally what Obama does by nature. He listens to those with whom he disagrees, but he responds only to the goodness expressed in even the most fear-driven of statements. Ignore the small, the petty, the self-involved, the defensive, and respond to the moments of goodness in all of us. This is a practical program. I’ve seen it adopted on purpose and I’ve seen it work. Avoiding getting dragged into negative shoutfests is basic troll management. Learning to hear and respond to what is good and shared in an expression we find detestable is harder. The best teachers do this routinely. We can all learn to do it. We can. Yes, we can. It is a big part of how Obama brings out the better nature in us. It is a big reason the unrelenting and unreasoned negative campaign aimed at him failed."

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november 2008 by robertogreco

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Legacy 4: In the Crumbling Temple of the Dead White Males (the College Years) | Beyond School

"they forgot about the learner in their zeal to be teachers. This is why their teaching failed to win me...they [need to] start with knowing their learners, with respecting & esteeming them, & whatever cultural scripts those learners bring into the class.

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july 2008 by robertogreco

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Chilirec - Your Free Internet Recorder!

"Get your free personal radio channel recorder on the Internet with the possibility to record from hundreds of radio channels. Your personal radio recordings are stored on the Internet, and won't require any disk space on your computer."

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june 2008 by robertogreco

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Andrew McAfee: Eric Schmidt Reveals Google's Secret

"Listening to each other is core to our culture, and we don’t listen to each other just because we’re all so smart. We listen because everyone has good ideas, and because it’s a great way to show respect. And any company, at any point in its history

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june 2008 by robertogreco

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TravelinEdMan: New York Times article on online language learning and 10 such sites

"the field of online language learning is exploding! Listed below are 10 online language learning sites (the first two, Livemocha and Chinesepod are reviewed in the NY Times article)"

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february 2008 by robertogreco

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getting older (18 February, 2008, Interconnected)

"general, often contradictory life principles...be less tolerant; care more; care less; speak and do without thinking first, but consider afterwards; do what I want and if it's toxic, move on; don't avoid being wrong or foolish...everything is interesting

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february 2008 by robertogreco

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The World In 2008 | The future of futurology

"1 think small 2 think short-term 3 say you don’t know. Uncertainty looks smarter than ever before 4 get embedded in particular industry, preferably something with computing, national security, global warming 5 talk less, listen more"

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november 2007 by robertogreco

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LastGraph: Home

"This is LastGraph, a web-based system for making pretty wavegraphs of your Last.fm musical profile. The charts have time along the horizontal axis, and number of plays on the vertical; think of it as sort of a stacked line graph, but centered, smoothed,

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september 2007 by robertogreco

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music listening history - data visualization & visual design - information aesthetics

"an algorithmically generated visualization based on statistical information provided by Last.fm software, more particular every song listened to by a particular user over an 18 month period of time."

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may 2007 by robertogreco

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Creativity Central - Journal - Talkers V. Listeners

"Listening is a lost art. People aren't really listening, they waiting for their turn to talk. Or they're formulating their talking points while someone else is talking."

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march 2007 by robertogreco

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hear you are --- [murmur]

site specific stories for your cellphone in Toronto

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april 2005 by robertogreco

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