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Apocalypse Neuro: Why Our Brains Don't Process the Gravest Threats to Humanity

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/apocalypse-neuro-why-our-brain-cant-process-the-planets-gravest-threats
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth" - Marcus Aurelius

Coding is not the new literacy

http://www.chris-granger.com/2015/01/26/coding-is-not-the-new-literacy/

Mark Twain on Inventions

“It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing—and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite — that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.” ―  Mark Twain

A Fundamental Theory to Model the Mind

https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140403-a-fundamental-theory-to-model-the-mind/

Good engineering managers aren’t just hard to find — they don’t exist

http://venturebeat.com/2014/02/13/good-engineering-managers-arent-just-hard-to-find-they-dont-exit/ Now I understand why I don't want to move up. :-)

One idea

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. Swami Vivekananda