July 2009
8 posts
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“Many of our examples suggest that clarity and excellence in thinking is very...”
– Edward Tufte, Visual Explanations
Jul 25th
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Jul 18th
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WatchWatch
Ok, so I can’t wait for HBO’s The Pacific, their $200M follow-on to Band of Brothers.
Jul 17th
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“If you look after truth and goodness, Beauty looks after herself.”
– Eric Gill
Jul 15th
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Reading: Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life
Not since Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s book Flow, have I encountered such a good book about attention that, you guessed it, captured my attention.  In Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life, Winifred Gallagher discusses the basic premise that you are what you pay attention to, or to be more precise, what you choose to pay attention to. She blends contemporary psychology with modern neuroscience...
Jul 11th
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Jul 10th
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“Painters in the grand style were not concerned with style - they drew with...”
– Paul Valéry
Jul 7th
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“The separation of the sciences and the arts is merely a matter of convention and...”
– Paul Valéry
Jul 5th