A Thinking Place

Imagine a place where thinkers gather to talk with each other. Imagine their ideas making wrestling moves. Imagine those ideas initiating ikedo shifts. Imagine them executing kung-fu leaps and thrusts. Imagine the new idea-combinations that emerge. Imagine their effects on the human environment when these ideas finally get to be fabricated into forms.
In the Glass House, a thinking place given form by Philip Johnson, thinkers have another opportunity to meet and share. How wonderful!

Here is the Glass House where this and that gets knock around. Have a look.

Uploaded by coolhunting on Jul 20, 2008
In this video RISD president John Maeda narrates a visit to Philip Johnson's Glass House in New Canaan, CT. Maeda shares his impressions and talks about how it relates to his thoughts on simplicity. Meanwhile, we explore the site (there are actually several buildings on the property in addition to the Glass House), shot over a couple picture perfect spring days

John Maeda The Thinker

John Maeda is an interesting man. He thinks. He works. He talks. He keeps learning from contact with other human beings.
Here he is talking.

Uploaded by TEDtalksDirector on Sep 20, 2007 http://www.ted.com The MIT Media Lab's John Maeda lives at the intersection of technology and art, a place that can get very complicated. Here he talks about paring down to basics.

The Ripple-Effects Of Deeds

Yes. The things we do affect others in ways that we may not realise. For better. For worse.

For this Christmas, for logging-in, I wish you many blessings for the good things that you have done for others.

May you be encouraged and supported to have your deepest hopes fulfilled.

 Have a wonderful Christmas!

The Global Financial Crisis And The Dummies

In most of my sharings, I have made it positive, empowering and motivating. You watch, read and feel good, ready to face the real world with bright thoughts and brave steps.
But many things around us are falling apart. Some quite senselessly! And I am alarmed and confused.
The CRISIS STAGE is upon us. There seems to be no escape. So here in this sharing is one enlightening piece that may help some of us, DUMMIES,  see why we dummies,  are all going through this bad-bad mess. Perhaps, we may pull through. Somehow.

The Gift Of Self

If ever we can give a gift to another human being, it has to be the gift of enabling this particular human being to be who she/he is capable of becoming. However, this maybe the most difficult gift to give. The giver must first have the inkling of its value. Then the idea of how to give it. Then to persuade the recipient that this gift is valuable. Hopefully the recipient will accept the gift and unwrap it. Then put in the necessary persistence to enjoy the gift of a self-actualising human being experiencing the thrill and the powerful effects of growing capable. But it has to start somewhere. And Sir Ken Robertson makes a case to start at the beginning.

The Fascinating Human Being

The human being is fascinating. Mainly because of his innate human ability to learn.
Over two hundred thinking skills, classified by taxonomists; labelled as thinking hats and dancing shoes; rebranded as habits of the mind; packaged as 8 habits of highly effective people; taught as mindmapping; resurfaced as a kick in the seat of the pant and a wack on the side of the head. How alarming!

Now it comes as a curve ball thrown by Sir Ken Robertson.