metamoses:think daily

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a blog from dave donahue

The Feed

Two things jumped out at me this weekend. This and this.

I’m sure there’s something to say or add to that. But i feel like the pictures are sufficient.

Filed under: Lego

Editorial.

Ideas last about one week. And then i get a new one. Its like a subscription to a magazine i didn’t sign up for. I feel responsible to these ideas and feel i ought to do something with them. I’ve gotten as far as writing down the idea in its entirety along with any corresponding thoghts that arise in the following days. All this is captured on a legal pad, then transcribed in the evening to my google docs. And then it sits in google docs. I just saw them again today- (what i think are) brilliant concepts that i can’t quite close the door on, but have nothing else to shove in. An entire corridor of rooms half vacuumed. So i move on to the next one. It’s like i just need an editor. Someone who will say, “Great. Work on this again this week- give me five pages today or you don’t eat.”

Filed under: Uncategorized

Self-Compassion

“Even when we sometimes do “learn a lesson” from mistakes for which we judge ourselves harshly, I worry about the nature of the energy behind that kind of change and learning. I’d like change to be stimulated by a clear desire to enrich life for ourselves or for others rahter than by destructive energies such as shame or guilt.”

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Filed under: Attitude, Psychology, Theology

Book Review: Negative

No book review. I started two books at once and so i’m halfway thru both of them. Both great books- but new posts will be slow in coming.

Filed under: Book Review

Cutting Edge

My friend and i fb’d about “the curve” and wondered outloud how you locate the people who are ahead of it. Who’s sees what’s coming next? Is there a better way to keep up culturally beyond reading Rolling Stone and Leonard Sweet?

I think the answer breaks down a number of ways. Read the rest of this entry »

Filed under: Interdisciplinary Action, Rabbinical Tradition, church , ,

Book Review: EQ 2.0

If you read Dave Ramsey’s Total Money Makeover and asked yourself, “Well, now what?”, then Lee Eisenberg’s The Number is your ‘now what’. If you rushed out and read Boundaries after my compelling literary review and thought,  “Great- now what?” Then EQ 2.0 by Bradberry and Greaves is your ‘now what’. Read the rest of this entry »

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A Magical Story

Yes, Virginia, there is a magic bullet and its called The Magic Bullet. This story writes itself! Read the rest of this entry »

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Familiarphobia

“…in constantly searching for something new, i easily forget how good the greats really are.” -Sam Grawe, Editor-in-Chief, Dwell Read the rest of this entry »

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Strength Quote: Deliberative

"It is generally agreed that the ultimate purpose of any thinking must be the satisfaction of the thinker.So in the end the purpose of thinking is to satisfy the expressed emotions." -Edward DeBono