CALL ME MAGGIE

Keith “Maggie” Brown

  • Textimony 20121127

        Accomplishing anything & doing something are two distinct, though not always independent, enterprises. Pay heed to which process you have given yourself over. Continue reading

    Textimony 20121127

  • Originally posted on Notes On Liberty: Recently the UN voted to make the Palestinian territories as a “non-member observer state,” rather than a “non-member observer entity.” The vote was 73% to 5% with 22% abstaining. As I’ve previously noted, I… Continue reading

  • The Constantly Rebooting Control-Jellyfish

    The Society of Control operates through constantly modulating networks which are interconnected by countless channels & circuits. A nice metaphor for the quasi-living structure that generates the Book of Life would be squids and jellyfish. …Perhaps the Economist should have… Continue reading

  • Survival of the biggest | The Economist

    Interesting cover for this week’s Economist. Survival of the biggest | The Economist. Continue reading

  • The subscriptionization of everything >> Pandodaily

    This brings up an interesting point: why do we need to expend resources printing & distributing things that are outdated very quickly? One factor is that people are becoming more comfortable with the idea of not owning something as long… Continue reading

  • Following up on a Pandodaily reblog I did last week. Paul Carr is totally right: The founder of MailChimp did send a response that should be the template for other founders/CEOs who deal with real critiques of their business. Continue reading

  • About Us | Open Culture

    I cannot sing the praises of this site enough. Go there and look around good friend of the Ether. What is Open Culture’s Mission? Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community. Web… Continue reading

  • Adoration, Anniversary >> Becoming Integral

    Congrats to Sam over at Becoming Integral on his blog’s one year anniversary. I have known Sam for a decade. His posts on his blog have been real highlight’s for me this year. Keep up the Loving Struggle good brother!… Continue reading

  • “STEM without flowers is just a bare stem…”

    …which sometimes can have some BIG thorns… We need more engineers and scientists. That has become the mantra of promoters of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) in education. There is nothing wrong with such a rallying cry, except that… Continue reading

    “STEM without flowers is just a bare stem…”

  • NYC fast-food workers walk out – Salon.com

    …New York Communities for Change organizing director Jonathan Westin told Salon the current effort is “the biggest organizing campaign that’s happened in the fast food industry.” A team of 40 NYCC organizers have been meeting with workers for months, spearheading… Continue reading

  • Obama’s drone guidelines: Bombing Kant’s test | The Economist

    AN EMINENT Prussian bachelor once argued that rational creatures are bound, by the very nature of reason, to act only according to rules of conduct one would affirm, when at one’s rational best, to equally guide everyone’s choices. This is… Continue reading

  • The Rise of Democratic Schools and ‘Solutionaries’…

    Twenty years ago at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Severn Cullis-Suzuki, a 12-year-old girl from Canada, “silenced the world for six minutes” with her raw and powerful oration lambasting adults for dumping the problems they created onto the… Continue reading

  • A Liberal Moment – NYTimes.com

    Still hard to believe, I told a friend the other day while trying to fathom the election results, that pot is legal in my state, gays are free to marry, and a black man who vowed to raise taxes on… Continue reading

  • Class Wars of 2012 – NYTimes.com

    …The important thing to understand now is that while the election is over, the class war isn’t. The same people who bet big on Mr. Romney, and lost, are now trying to win by stealth — in the name of… Continue reading

  • Lonnie Holley – “All Rendered Truth” – YouTube

    via Lonnie Holley – “All Rendered Truth” – YouTube. Continue reading

  • Existential Entrepreneurship: Being Sick & Tired of Pseudo-Obligations

    Our lives can be our own or they can belong to others. And in saying that, I do not mean that in the former instance we can do what we want and in the latter instance we do only what… Continue reading

    Existential Entrepreneurship: Being Sick & Tired of Pseudo-Obligations

  • The Audacious & Looming Spectre of Differential Tuition

    My mind is completely boggled. Someone can do the relatively simple accounting and see that the humanities–“majors without an immediate job payoff”–are already subsidizing other majors which have a “job payoff.” In fact, this was already done at few institutions,… Continue reading

  • Ambition, Self-Promotion, & Military Demagoguery

    The series will show how Petraeus was engaged from the beginning of the Iraq war in creating a myth about himself as a commander with unique ability to defeat insurgents, that he knew he had failed in his first two… Continue reading