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Technology and Consequential Thinking
We live in an age of smartphones and smart televisions. These devices are not actually smart. They simply have an extended array of abilities. They are just tools. These devices can be utilized in an intelligent or unintelligent fashion, but that is up to the user.
Technology is neither good nor bad. It merely expands our capabilities. How we use technology is either good or bad. To use it well we need to immerse ourselves in something called consequential thinking. Today, it seems the siren song of our devices is so powerful that we fail to spend enough time thinking about how to properly utilize them. We do not think about the consequences of our actions.
Personal Standards, Passion and Work
Do you have personal standards? “What do I mean?” you ask. Okay. Do you weigh yourself daily or weekly? If you do, what is the number you want to see
Calculating a Lifestyle
We all have aspirations. Most of us would like to live in a nice home in a good neighborhood. We would like to own a reliable car
Good Things Happen All the Time
Good things happen all the time. The trouble is that we tend to remember and focus on the bad times more than the good. This is not a
Technology and Productivity
Technology’s impact on our lives is increasing. Technology begets more technology. Some people mistake this for progress. However, as I have mentioned so many times before, technological innovation
Confidence, Competence and Motivation
We have all heard the question, more than once, “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” I will avoid evolutionary biology and not attempt to posit an
Embrace Your Inner Weirdo
We all have a part of us that just does not seem to fit in with the rest of society. For some of us this part of our
Inadequacy versus Inexperience
The other day I was watching a lecture online. It was a video of the first class in an introductory course on computer science, given at a prestigious
Three Things
The German expression, “Aller guten Dinge sind drei” means good things come in threes. As with all languages, there are various ways to translate a piece of text.
Transcendental Ignorance
There is a lot to know. There is more to know about life and the universe than any one person could ever hope to master. This seems so

























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