Sharing my awesomeness just a little bit at a time.

I sometimes forget how wise I’ve been in the past.  I guess that’s one of the reasons I’ve ramped up my blogging lately… even when I find that what I’ve written in the past is bunk, it gives me insight into how I’ve changed.  Sometimes, however, I find gems, like this I wrote on August 30, 2001.  Is it impolite to present your own words as a quote?

If love is but a dream we feel,
is not a dream of love for real? 

 Some people will never understand.  Others understand immediately.

For those of us who use playlists as if they were theme songs in the movie of the life we’d like to be living, I wholeheartedly recommend a little Low Strung in your life.  Chill out with some cello, while being moved by its passion — uplifting and familiar, these instrumental tracks let you get into the right mood for action without words that’ll break your concentration or relaxation.

Much is said of TED, the Technology, Entertainment, and Design conference — there are those who think it a brilliant gathering of thinkers with ideas that can change the world, and others who think it’s a bunch of rich liberal windbags trying to assuage their rich liberal guilt while forming an exclusive club to get into their ivory tower.

I can understand the sentiments of the latter, but I lean more towards the former.  I’ve come to believe that by understanding fundamentally what problems we’re trying to solve, we’re making their solutions far more likely.  And I’m ready to try to understand the world to be able to figure out my part in solving its problems.

Hans Rosling is part of what makes TED — and the way TED has sought to distribute its talks — part of getting to the root of problems and their solutions.

I encourage you to watch this video and consider how you might be a part of making happen what he talks about.  Consider letting go of your ideology and how that would influence the way that you interact with the world, and think about what can happen if you instead decide to solve a problem, and let the problem dictate its solution.