Kategorie: Allgemein
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The Two Cultures Problem And The Rationality Axiom
Murray Gell-Mann [physicist] qtd. in Brockman, John. The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995, 22. Story behind the Passage Today, I did not even have to take a picture of the page I am writing about because I had the passage in my own book — or at least, in the manuscript….
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Digital Thinking
Dix, Alan. “Digital Thinking: See the World with Digital Eyes.” Story behind the Passage Some insights change your thinking irreversibly. For me, this was the case when I finally discovered the full magnitude of what digital technology can do (I wrote about this before). Since then, everything I had previously thought of as smart or important…
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Sparks
Wehrle, Martin (2010). Die 100 besten Coaching-Übungen: Das große Workbook für Einsteiger und Profis zur Entwicklung der eigenen Coaching-Fähigkeiten. Story behind the Passage The title of the book choice today is actually real bullshit in light of the passage above. Is that a bit too critical? Well, of course, but let me explain. I opened…
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Micro Politics
Cunningham, Mary, with Fran Schumer (1984). Powerplay: What Really Happened at Bendix, 354. Story behind the Passage I know, everyone talks about politics, especially in Covid times. There is always something wrong that politicians can be blamed for — supposedly. And no matter how politically-interested or –informed we are, we all have to mess with politics since we…
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Freeing The Inner Rebel
Heintze, Anne (2016). Auf viele Arten anders: Die vielbegabte Scanner-Persönlichkeit: Leben als kreatives Multitalent, 203. Story behind the Passage I talked about scanner personalities and Barbara Sher before. Anne Heintze is pretty much the German pendant on this topic. She translated and adapted Sher’s wisdom for the German audience. Today, I grabbed the book because…
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Friendship Bread
Amish Friendship Bread Starter Recipe {Hints for Storing and Using this Sweet Sourdough} (tastesoflizzyt.com) Story behind the Passage My next-door neighbor called me today. She said, she wanted to give me the dough for “friendship cake.” I had never heard about such a thing before but since she knows that I am very much into…
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Framing Our Minds
Scheufele, Dietram A. (1999). “Framing as a Theory of Media Effects.” Journal of Communication, 103–22, 2016. Story behind the Passage “It is all about your mindset,” a dear friend of mine said yesterday. Of course, I know this. But, after all, you are only inside your own head, right? So, we can learn all the techniques…
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Idea Bazooka
bazooka | Origin and meaning of bazooka by Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com) Story behind the Passage Actually, I think, my next degree might even be in Physics. Am I kidding? Probably! I would not manage to pass any exams in Physics, I think. Still, I have never never been that close to the natural sciences….
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Somewhere Else
Kaldas, Pauline (2007). Letters from Cairo, 131. Story behind the Passage The passage is from a book I discussed in my Ph.D. thesis back in 2013. I remember the story very well, like most of the narratives by Arab American women that I worked on. The funny thing is that for so many years, all this…
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Time More Is More
Dobelli, Rolf (2013). The Art of Thinking Clearly: Better Thinking, Better Decisions. Story behind the Passage Time has always been an issue for human beings. After all, we know that our life time is limited and that is why all of us, at some point in our life, discover that time really is the most…