Notices by Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin) tagged q
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#q #paulgraham "the stated purpose of #Powerpoint is to present ideas. Its real role is to overcome people's fear of public speaking. It allows you to give an impressive-looking talk about nothing, and it causes the audience to sit in a dark room looking at slides, instead of a bright one looking at you." http://www.paulgraham.com/hiring.html
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OMG this perfectly sets up for (but doesn't actually get into) the big problem I had with #college: #q "And then, in your late teens... The brain is basically saying I'm here to learn about adulthood. Show me what I need to know." http://www.npr.org/2013/09/06/211722893/is-30-really-the-new-20
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#q Temple Grandin: "You see, people get locked into it verbally. I'm a visual thinker so I don't see the words. I see the kids." http://www.wbur.org/npr/255744345/can-autism-be-an-asset
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#q "Telling someone who trusts you that you're giving them #medicine, when you know you’re not, because you want their money, isn’t just #lying—it’s like an #example you’d make up if you had to illustrate for a child why lying is wrong." http://m.xkcd.com/971/ #xkcd
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#q #paulgraham: "The most productive young people will always be undervalued by large organizations, because the young have no performance to measure yet, and any error in guessing their ability will tend toward the mean." !eduposse
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#q "Those who urge us to “think different,” in other words, almost never do so themselves. Year after year, new installments in this unchanging genre are produced and consumed. #Creativity, they all tell us, is too important to be left to the creative." !eduposse
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#q “Great people talk about ideas. Average people talk about things. Small people talk about other people.” http://stopbeingaloser.org/2011/08/08/motivating-monday-ideas/
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#q "'tis an ill wind that blows no minds." http://principiadiscordia.com/book/16.php
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#q "This can't be the future of education -- outsourcing it to volunteers in the upper middle class." http://www.asheesh.org/scribble/education/outsourcing.html (I guess that's what #homeschooling is too, isn't it?)
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#q "Not Atreyu the *boy*—we wanted Atreyu the *warrior*!" → "I am the only `Atreyu' of the Plains People."
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"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." #q Frederick Douglass; seen on a #bumper-sticker on my way home, tonight.
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