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Nature's 10 Simple Rules for Business Survival

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:28:32 -0600

1. Diversify across generations.

2. Adapt to the changing environment — and specialize.

3. Celebrate transparency. Every species knows which species will eat it and which will not.

4. Plan and execute systematically, not compartmentally. Every part of a plant contributes to its growth.

5. Form groups and protect the young. Most animals travel in flocks, gaggles, and prides. Packs offer strength and efficacy.

6. Integrate metrics. Nature brings the right information to the right place at the right time. When a tree needs water, the leaves curl; when there is rain, the curled leaves move more water to the root system.

7. Improve with each cycle. Evolution is a strategy for long-term survival.

8. Right-size regularly, rather than downsize occasionally. If an organism grows too big to support itself, it collapses; if it withers, it is eaten.

9. Foster longevity, not immediate gratification. Nature does not buy on credit and uses resources only to the level that they can be renewed.

10. Waste nothing, recycle everything. Some of the greatest opportunities in the 21st century will be turning waste — including inefficiency and underutilization — into profit.

— ADAM WERBACH, FastCompany

"The architect trained in the science and technology of vastu and vaastu designs the building in such..."

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:32:00 -0600

“The architect trained in the science and technology of vastu and vaastu designs the building in such a way that its vibrations are numerically equal to the vibrations of the occupants of the building which is determined by their birth stars. This is made possible by a special calculation maintained in vaastu technology. The building encloses a part of the cosmic space which is filled with particles of energy each in the form of ‘Vaastu Purusha Mandala’ where’Vaastu Purusha’ means material energy and ‘Mandala’ means diagram. This energy grid pattern consists of 9 x 9 = 81 squares and is the basic layout for all building spaces.”

- Dr. V. Ganapati Sthapati {curious as to how to retrofit existing buildings…} {perhaps just a brick} {more than just a brick…}

"I do not pretend to give such a Sum; I only lend it to you. When you […] meet with another..."

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:13:58 -0600

“I do not pretend to give such a Sum; I only lend it to you. When you […] meet with another honest Man in similar Distress, you must pay me by lending this Sum to him; enjoining him to discharge the Debt by a like operation, when he shall be able, and shall meet with another opportunity. I hope it may thus go thro’ many hands, before it meets with a Knave that will stop its Progress. This is a trick of mine for doing a deal of good with a little money.”

- Benjamin Franklin

"The embodied energy is Vaastu Purusha Mandala or the Creative Essence made manifest on the physical..."

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:37:00 -0600

“The embodied energy is Vaastu Purusha Mandala or the Creative Essence made manifest on the physical plane. The space enclosed in a building is Praasaada Purusha Mandala or ‘energized building.’ Such a building is a living organism built of musical units of measure. These units correspond with the primal vibrations of the cosmos itself.”

- Brahmarishi Mayan, circa 10,500 BC {link}

Photo

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:00:49 -0600

"Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to..."

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:51:20 -0600

“Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives. He is distinguished from animals by his freedom to do evil or to do good and to walk the high road of beauty or tread the low road of ugly degeneracy.”

- Stride Toward Freedom : the Montgomery Story (1958) : Martin Luther King, Jr

Lightspeed

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:07:22 -0600

Lightspeed

MirHossein Supporter

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:36:50 -0600

MirHossein Supporter

fred-wilson: sweeeeet. i wish i could take notes like this Fred...

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:44:24 -0600

fred-wilson:

sweeeeet. i wish i could take notes like this

Fred Wilson at 140 Conference (via jonny goldstein)

{tweetip} Well, that clears up a bit of confusion.

"Offices started as tents and pavilions. Roads and sidewalks were marked off with chalk and string...."

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:53:00 -0600

“Offices started as tents and pavilions. Roads and sidewalks were marked off with chalk and string. The crystal grew over and around all of that, like a coral reef. But it’s not for looks, and it’s not structural, either. It’s functional. The crystal is somehow computer memory, processing power, and fiber-optics all in one. It radiates wi-fi. It runs on sunlight.”

- mr. penumbra’s twenty-four-hour book store — robinsloan

{tweetip} Curious. Seems it should do something else 2. {edit} perhaps this is version 1…

A Poem with Bookends

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:01:00 -0600

GOD is here.

GOD is now.

It is time

for Natures Law

Mother Earth changes.

We can learn

stop the abuse

of our actions.

Our spirits rise

our energy continues

to be One

inside

outside

around

circle to infinity.

Open Our heart

the answers arrive

Respect all life

live in balance.

Hear the sound

of Natures song

in the Mountains

where peace rules.

Absorb Natures energy

feel purple white

Mirror to another

whisper the Truth

Heaven on Earth.

GOD is done.

We are One.

Sedona Pictograph cropped photo turned counter clockwise 90...

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:36:00 -0600

Sedona Pictograph cropped photo turned counter clockwise 90 degrees.

"Productive stupidity means being ignorant by choice. Focusing on important questions puts us in the..."

Sat, 23 May 2009 16:13:46 -0600

“Productive stupidity means being ignorant by choice. Focusing on important questions puts us in the awkward position of being ignorant. One of the beautiful things about science is that it allows us to bumble along, getting it wrong time after time, and feel perfectly fine as long as we learn something each time. No doubt, this can be difficult for students who are accustomed to getting the answers right. No doubt, reasonable levels of confidence and emotional resilience help, but I think scientific education might do more to ease what is a very big transition: from learning what other people once discovered to making your own discoveries. The more comfortable we become with being stupid, the deeper we will wade into the unknown and the more likely we are to make big discoveries.”

- The importance of stupidity in scientific research - Journal of Cell Science via @timoreilly

{tweetip} This certainly sums up my background. I like the change from stumble to bumble…

"… the passions, when we know that they cannot find fulfillment, become vision; and a vision,..."

Fri, 22 May 2009 20:40:00 -0600

“… the passions, when we know that they cannot find fulfillment, become vision; and a vision, whether we wake or sleep, prolongs its power by rhythm and pattern, the wheel where the world is butterfly. We need no protection but it does, for if we become interested in ourselves, in our own lives, we pass out of the vision.”

- William Butler Yeats via @elsabet

“THE STONE VORTEX” Escalante Wilderness, Utah

Thu, 21 May 2009 14:14:58 -0600

“THE STONE VORTEX”

Escalante Wilderness, Utah

Collage. Not College.

Tue, 19 May 2009 00:44:34 -0600

Collage. Not College.

"Superconductivity and magnetism hate each other. To get superconductivity, you have to kill the..."

Mon, 18 May 2009 17:23:00 -0600

“Superconductivity and magnetism hate each other. To get superconductivity, you have to kill the magnetism.”

- James S. Schilling, Ph.D., professor of physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. Discovered that europium becomes superconducting at 1.8 K (-456 °F)

{tweetip} He should stop killing magnetism. More than likely, Nature put it there for a reason.

"When tradition thus becomes master, it does so in such a way that what it ‘transmits’ is..."

Sun, 17 May 2009 17:17:00 -0600

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When tradition thus becomes master, it does so in such a way that what it ‘transmits’ is made so inaccessible, proximally and for the most part, that it rather becomes concealed. Tradition takes what has come down to us and delivers it over to self-evidence; it blocks our access to those primordial ‘sources’ from which the categories and concepts handed down to us have been in part quite genuinely drawn. Indeed it makes us forget that they have had such an origin, and makes us suppose that the necessity of going back to these sources is something which we need not even understand.

If the question of Being is to have its own history made transparent, then this hardened tradition must be loosened up, and the concealments which it has brought about dissolved. We understand this task as one in which by taking the question of Being as our clue we are to destroy the traditional content of ancient ontology until we arrive at those primordial experiences in which we achieved our first ways of determining the nature of Being—-the ways which have guided us ever since.

”

- Destruktion - Being and Time, Martin Heidegger

"Right now Twitter is an acid trip in that it offers a kaleidoscopic stream of disparate messages. It..."

Sun, 17 May 2009 14:56:50 -0600

“Right now Twitter is an acid trip in that it offers a kaleidoscopic stream of disparate messages. It can be fun. It can even be useful for users who have focuses and purposes. Right now, I’m not sure what Twitter is looking to facilitate. Perhaps being *facilitator* is what it needs to become. What it will facilitate is probably anybody’s guess.”

- philbaumann comment on ‘When will Twitter start for real?’ / scripting.com

Feedback. Not a bad thing. And what’s this NaN shit?...

Fri, 15 May 2009 21:58:00 -0600

Feedback. Not a bad thing. And what’s this NaN shit? {$aapl, u need to tip 4D big time…}