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“In times of change, learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." –Eric Hoffer, American social writer

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“I’ve learned that you don’t get what you expect. You get what you inspect.” – meg Whitman at HP analyst briefing 10/4/2011

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“Education is not filling a pail. It is lighting a fire!”–William Yeats

As mentioned by Dean Kamen in CEA Magazine

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notes from reading Dr. Madan Mohan’s 23 Principles of successful product companies

Kim and Maubrogne (1997) 5 Major dimensions of strategy between high growth and other companies. Attempt to change the industry conditions Focus on bettering themselves than just beat the competition Let unprofitable customers go Shed commodity resources/skills Think in terms of offering total solutions to the customers Hagel and brown (2005) Growth opportunities will be […]

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“Persistance leads to luck every time”–Summer Pitt, Crescent Dawn

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A Three Axis Accelerometer

One of my previous posts was about the GPS and how there are multiple ways for to figure out where you are. This one is about accelerometers. For a detailed description look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerometer. This one is a short look at it. I wont go into theory. An accelerometer measures acceleration. There are really three […]

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GPS–As it it today

GPS has freed us…it gives us the ability to go anywhere knowing that we will not get lost. It gives us the freedom to explore knowing that we can always find our way back. There are may sites that you can go to and get a really good idea of how GPS works. This post […]

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The Center Pompidou – revisiting the self, Paris, France

The summer of 2012 has a lot of memories. This is about one of them…one that has lit a fire in me, one that I don’t want to put out. But I’m jumping ahead of myself. We got to see a lot, but from a learning perspective there were two two highlights . The visit […]

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“Our life is what our thoughts make it”–Marcus Aurelius

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“Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough." –Lord Chesterfield, British statesman