EricDS bits

“If the stuff you accumulate isn’t actively helping get you closer to a life you truly want, then it’s getting in the way, and it needs to go. Period.

The biggest change in attitude this book made in my life was to teach me not to generate false relevance by “organizing” stuff I don’t want or will never need. Organization is what you do to stuff that you need, want, or love - it’s not what you do to get useless stuff out of sight or to manufacture makebelieve meaning.”

“In the coming world of cloud computing perfectly good answers will become a commodity. The real value of the rest of science then becomes asking good questions.”

“The brain does not simply gather and stockpile information as a computer’s hard drive does. Facts are stored first in the hippocampus, a structure deep in the brain about the size and shape of a fat man’s curled pinkie finger. But the information does not rest there. Every time we recall it, our brain writes it down again, and during this re-storage, it is also reprocessed. In time, the fact is gradually transferred to the cerebral cortex and is separated from the context in which it was originally learned. For example, you know that the capital of California is Sacramento, but you probably don’t remember how you learned it.

This phenomenon, known as source amnesia, can also lead people to forget whether a statement is true. Even when a lie is presented with a disclaimer, people often later remember it as true.”

I almost cried when I found out FIOS wasn’t available in my apartment and that I’d have to go with time warner. Now I really hate time warner internet. When will the dinosaurs learn?

Congratulations Wade!