"A culture filled with smooth and familiar consumptions produces in people rigid mental habits... They know what they know, and they expect to find it reinforced when they turn a page or click on a screen. Difficulty annoys them, and, having become accustomed to so much pabulum served up by a pandering and invertebrate media, they experience difficulty not just as “difficult,” but as insult."
Read moreLearning to Think 2: 5 Steps to Thinking Your Way out of a Paper Bag
Most of the time we “think” we are thinking without thinking about it. Our default setting is to sit in the sand and draw on a paper sack with a crayon, oblivious to the drafting table, .05mm pencil, and precise instruments right beside us.
Read moreLearning to Think 1: Reclaiming Your Mind from The Google
Most people hate to be alone, they hate quietness and stillness, and most of all, they hate to think. There never was a person born who didn't hate the thought of deep thinking. But, as great minds soon find out, it is extremely rewarding.
Read moreLessons from Sherlock Holmes on How to Think, or The Mind Palace
We need people who can think their way out of a paper bag. Religion has been accused (and most of the time, rightly so) of giving brain-dead people lies couched in pleasing rhetoric. But that is not the sole fault of religion, that is the fault of evil people using religion to their gain.
Read moreInformation Architecture: Organizing Chaos
We have a problem. We are drowning in data. We are anxious, and we spend most of our downtime glued to streams of information (from Twitter, Facebook, TV, games, etc.). We absolutely consume data, and yet as soon as we step away, we wonder why we're even alive. It's as if our basic, fundamental humanity is propped up by digital data streams.
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