Wednesday, June 29, 2011

david bollier

the commons as a different engine for innovation
thanks to @ianchia for sending this our way


sound like Hsieh in delivering happiness:
When you have to “eat your own dog food,” as they say in Silicon Valley, then you make sure that it’s real tasty and wholesome – and not some marketable slop that you hoodwink some poor sucker into buying.  That’s why Linux is a better operating system than Windows.

and krishnamurti's education and the significance of life
some favs from the book so far:
  • a consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern, he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.
  • we may take degrees and be mechanically efficient without being intelligent
  • of what value is it to be trained lawyers if we perpetuate litigation
  • the purpose of ed is not to produce mere scholars, technicians and job hunters, but integrated men and women who are free of fear; for only between such human beings can there be enduring peace. 
  • education is intimately related to the present world crisis, and the educator who sees the causes of this universal chaos should ask himself how to awaken intelligence in the student, thus helping the coming generation not to bring about further conflict and disaster.”
i think the more we focus on life… natural curiosities.. and pairing learners up per interest, we will be spending more energy on things that matter and a result will be intelligent people collaborating in peace.