Niks is nieuw, behalve mijn inzicht..?

In april begin ik aan mijn 60e levensjaar. Een bizar gevoel dat me tot in elke vezel verwondert, al was ik er zelf de hele tijd bij.
Achterom kijkend - waar ik op deze grijze en stille decemberdag even tijd voor neem - dan valt me vooral op hoeveel er is veranderd en hoeveel hetzelfde is gebleven. Een normale waarneming op mijn leeftijd weet ik ook meteen. Dit heb ik al eerder gelezen. Maar nu is de waarneming uit de eerste hand en dat is een heel andere beleving kan ik je nu vertellen. ;-)
Vandaag ben ik bezig met alles waar ik dit jaar niet heb afgekregen. Regelmatig bloggen bijvoorbeeld. Te laag gezakt op mijn prioriteitenlijstje lijkt het dan. Maar als ik er over nadenk, dan heb ik het bloggen vooral verwaarloosd bij gebrek aan focus. Ik wist niet meer voor wie ik schreef en waarom en waartoe. Terwijl ik dat duidelijk boven aan mijn blog heb genoteerd. Het is een egodocument en een geheugensteuntje en jij mag naar wens meelezen. Maar omdat ik die notities publiceer via internet, heeft het een aantal effecten. Die heb ik niet geregeld. Eerst bewust maar later dacht ik dat ik daar misschien toch iets mee moest. Die twijfel heeft de terughoudendheid gecreëerd die op zijn beurt de stilte veroorzaakte. En daarnaast deed mijn groeiende achterdocht de openheid ook geen goed. Dat is een gevolg van mijn leven hier in Antwerpen. Ik weet niet of ik dit nu vooruitgang vind, maar soit. Volgend jaar beter besluit ik nu.
Wist jij dat het begrip 'motivatie' pas bestaat sinds de klokken drijfveren hebben? De mechanische klok liet zien hoe het apparaat in beweging kwam zodra de interne drijfveer voldoende spanning had. Die analogie veranderde de kijk op ons eigen apparaat. Tegenwoordig vragen we ons af of we wel voldoende energie hebben en praten we vaker over 'onze batterijen opladen'. En als je nu vindt dat je hersens even tijd nodig hebben om dat te 'processen' te verwerken is dat dankzij de computer...

Trend: The virtual world will be organised by topic

(NOTE CONCEPT in progress)

This above statement is with me for years, (I drew this conclusion in PAINT, so you calculate the date) but now I think it starts to emerge in a noticable way in the evolution of the internet. Knowledge and information are muliplying. The need to locate this in an way that can be managed with a minimum of energy is growing. 

Two evolutions collide here. And maybe this is the new synergy. 

FIRST. As allways some people know more about some topic then others. This leds to the point that it is easier to ask them then to know it all. The experts are born. 

SECOND. Groups of people sharing certain interests is not new either. Action groups, pressure groups, lobby clubs, consumer platfoms, political parties, etc., etc. In the same time the internet connects us all better then ever before. 

SO: The combination of accessible experts AND organised groups focused on certain topics might lead to a new dynamic. Mutual stimulation of both developments could change the whole social landscape. Any interest with enough supprt can has access to all the knowledge and information it needs. This new acces to the best insights will boost our evolution, starting in the virtual realm of the internet...

Lifestyle influences cancer risk

A plant based diet is key to a healthy life. Here one more piece of proof:

Heavy red meat diet poses colon cancer risk: research

A National Cancer Center team said it has found people who eat large amounts of red meat are at greater risk of colon cancer and is advising consumption of beef and pork be pared.
Read more at www.japantimes.co.jp

Bomen kap Keyserlei in volle gang. MER procedure Masterplan ook.

Ik voel me ongeveer ademloos. Met de kettingzaag wordt op dit moment op de Keijserlei ook mijn geloof in de democratie omgezaagd.
En heb je dit gezien? Gewoon blind doorgaan met de schijnvertoning. Het volk vergeet snel, toch?

Nothing new, but we need to get organised

It is already on the web elsewhere, but now Zurich scientists confirm our fears: Alle wealth is owned by a very small fraction of the people. This is a system risk.

Amplify’d from www.newscientist.com

Any engineer or programmer knows the hazards of a tightly-coupled large system. Economists should have seen the same problem when the Soviet empire collapsed, but they didn't because economists are frauds. The solution is simple in concept. Decouple as much as possible. Break up the EU, eliminate multinational trade organizations. Return to the pre-1970 condition of sovereign nations making bilateral trade arrangements. Eliminate every incentive that favors cross-border flows of goods, capital and jobs; those should only happen when they give a real advantage to the PEOPLE of BOTH nations in the transaction.

Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world

a "super-entity" of 147 even more tightly knit companies - all of their ownership was held by other members of the super-entity - that controlled 40 per cent of the total wealth in the network. "In effect, less than 1 per cent of the companies were able to control 40 per cent of the entire network," says Glattfelder. Most were financial institutions. The top 20 included Barclays Bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co, and The Goldman Sachs Group.

Newcomers to any network connect preferentially to highly connected members. TNCs buy shares in each other for business reasons, not for world domination. If connectedness clusters, so does wealth, says Dan Braha of NECSI: in similar models, money flows towards the most highly connected members. The Zurich study, says Sugihara, "is strong evidence that simple rules governing TNCs give rise spontaneously to highly connected groups". Or as Braha puts it: "The Occupy Wall Street claim that 1 per cent of people have most of the wealth reflects a logical phase of the self-organising economy." Read more at www.newscientist.com

 

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We use our brain NOT to think

Since I read Stuart Sutherlands 1992 (!)book "Irrationality" I felt incomfortable about how we ineffectively we use our intelligence.

Well... It got worse since. There seems no hope for improvement. Biology forbids. Just maybe we can build machines smarter then us to make the right decisions for us. Because we fail. Terribly.

(Ah we already have them. But we do not like using them, do we)

Amplify’d from www.wallstreetjournal.com

Here's a simple arithmetic question: "A bat and ball cost $1.10. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?" The vast majority of people respond quickly and confidently, insisting the ball costs 10 cents. This answer is both incredibly obvious and utterly wrong. (The correct answer is five cents for the ball and $1.05 for the bat.) What's most impressive is that education doesn't really help; more than 50% of students at Harvard, Princeton and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology routinely give the incorrect answer.

The Science of Irrationality A Nobelist explains our fondness for not thinking

When people face an uncertain situation, they don't carefully evaluate the information or look up relevant statistics. Instead, their decisions depend on mental short cuts, which often lead them to make foolish decisions. The short cuts aren't a faster way of doing the math; they're a way of skipping the math altogether.

In Mr. Kahneman's important new book, "Thinking, Fast and Slow," his first work for a popular audience, he outlines the implications of this new model of cognition. What are the most important mental errors that we all make? And can they be overcome?

This shouldn't be too surprising. The stock market is a case study in randomness, a system so complex that it's impossible to predict. Nevertheless, professional investors routinely believe that they can see what others can't. The end result is that they make far too many trades, with costly consequences.

What's even more upsetting is that these habits are virtually impossible to fix. As Mr. Kahneman himself admits, "My intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions and the planning fallacy as it was before I made a study of these issues." Read more at www.wallstreetjournal.com

 

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Google humor

Taking response ability

Complaining is waning your way out of real cooperation. You join in howling to the moon but you leave real change to the bolder ones. This way you try to have it both ways: Be part of the 'coalition' of the willing without leaving your comfort zone... I feel I am talking to myself right now!

Amplify’d from www.imd.org

If everyone is complaining all the time, we may mistake the resulting chatter for a genuine culture of constructive dissent. When the purpose of complaining is primarily social, the amount of new information contained in each complaint typically approaches zero. Spending all day listening to people moaning in well-worn ways may make you think that your ideas have been tested in the fires of disputation when in fact they have only been lightly toasted over the warm glow of comforting complaint." Weeks observed that, to be heard over the chattering din of social complaint, those wanting to complain in a bid actually to improve things must work hard and speak loudly. They must break the cultural norms of polite social complaint and raise their voice in a way that will seem rude, illegitimate and out of bounds. "We have a name for people who are willing to take this risk: leaders. We have other names for them too, though: cranks, loudmouths, loose cannons and troublemakers. Read more at www.imd.org

 

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This is the (r)evolution

This will be the big change. Not from the technology, but from cocreation. The consiensness of all those separate individuals that they ar IN power just as log as they autonomously handle the balance between their own interest and the wellbeing of the whole community of man.

Amplify’d from www.barrypopik.com

Entry from October 03, 2011 People’s Microphone or People’s Mike (using voices for amplified sound) The September 2011 “Occupy Wall Street” protests didn’t have a permit to have amplified sound (such as a bullhorn). Instead, a speaker would speak a few words and the crowd woud act as a “microphone” by repeating them. The name “people’s microphone” (or “people’s mike") has been cited in print since at least September 21, 2011. ABC News Protesters Vow to Camp Near Wall St. Indefinitely By MEGHAN BARR Associated Press NEW YORK September 21, 2011 (AP) In a small granite plaza a block from the New York Stock Exchange, a group of 20-somethings in flannel pajama pants and tie-dyed T-shirts are plotting the demise of Wall Street as we know it. Forbidden from using a microphone — they don’t have the proper permits — the group got creative. “What we do is a people’s microphone,” Reed said. “So the person who’s speaking says a couple of words and then the whole crowd repeats it so everyone can hear. It’s actually beautiful.” Read more at www.barrypopik.com

 

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een ontwerpweekend over een wereldprobleem

lijkt me erg leuk.

Mijn agenda is eigenlijk bezet... kijken wat ik kan doen...

looks cool and useful! see what I can do...

Amplify’d from www.globalsustainabilityjam.org

One weekend in October, creative, passionate people will meet, form teams & get to work in an energetic, global, face-to-face event. They'll have fun creating brand-new real-world designs, projects and initiatives which might make a difference... join us! Read more at www.globalsustainabilityjam.org

 

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We are the trinity of mind, heart and body

Once again I encounter this division in three, in yet another field. It becomes time to unite alle this in one big picture...

Amplify’d from integrationtraining.co.uk

Somatic means the study of the conscious body (rather than the body as an object).

Somatic Assessments

somatic assessments as an essential leadership, communication and life skill

the key thing is to be working with people rather than doing it “to” them. The best somatic assessment is still just a gues

It is easy to see if people are unstable and off centre of “have got themselves together.”

re you centred reading this? Physically, mentally, emotionally?

head (intellect), heart (emotions) and hara (a Japanese word for the centre of the body, refers to body and intuition). Read more at integrationtraining.co.uk

 

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Kindness is not always good

One more insigth from evolutioanary biology. Timely I hope.

It's Darwin AND Margulis, guys. Please combine this with David Sloan Wilson's work. http://evolution.binghamton.edu/dswilson/

Amplify’d from www.barbaraoakley.com

Cold-Blooded Kindness is a terrific book. It combines old-fashioned narrative skills with new insights from science and a tough-minded view of good and evil that is neither sentimental nor cynical

fresh perspectives to fascinating subjects by applying knowledge from many different disciplines.

real world insights by working in lots of different places and doing very different things

Pathological Altruism

one of the few books in evolutionary biology I've read in the past ten years that taught me something completely new Read more at www.barbaraoakley.com

 

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idee voor 2060

ik wil in de klapei een avondje met 2 films: Les Barons + rabat

Reality check

Of course you should nurture great idea's and strong desires.

Following them is what makes life worth living.

But at a certain point they will have to land on the bottom line...

Does everything work out in reality the way you wished and planned?

And did it bring you what you wanted? The real life experience can turn out expensive if you did not estimate your bet well enough before hand. So it is wise to begin with the end in mind and to wonder if you have all it takes to get there. The journey to succes begins with preparation.

What drives me?

This morning I stated to myself that I am maturing. Not only because of my 59 years of lifetime, but also because my inner workings are changing. Testosteron no longer dictates all my attention span. Experience now helps me avoid many previous mistakes and time wasters. But the journey along my personal timeline has brought me new views rendering most of my achieved understanding useless and/or trivial. It is like in a computer game. As soon as one level is mastered, you enter the next one. The game still follows the same universal rules, but other then that everything works out differently. In business these days they like to call this 'disruptive'. And that's exactly how it feels to me. I feel distrupted. 

Break: This writing got disrupted by the entrance of Gerda: "Where should all these newspapers and magazines go?" "Did  you read them all?" Ah... not yet. Information overload, knowledge hunger plus the quest for true wisdom. Another topic... A quick selection makes 90% end up in the recycle bin. The rest on the "Read this pile". One rough clipping makes it to my desk. Then serendipidity kicks in. 

Next to the article on neuroscience I meant to google is yet a smaller one. It is about endocrine distruptiveness. EDCs, endocrine disrupting chemicals interfere with the function of the parts of the brain which regulate hormone release. They are now increasingly found in the dust under our beds... Already free will convicibly is proven to be non extistant, but I now find myself to be influenced by chemicals. Originally meant to make life easier and business more profitable. In this depressing context I still long to maintain the ever shifting balance between my desire for my own well being, pleasure and comfort and my urge to contribute to the greater good. But the question: "What drives me" did not get much clearer yet. I do however come to trust the process of life a little more. Even though it will eventually lead to my death. I will have to take it step by step.

Subsidieparasieten

Er bestaat een soort dieven die ik subsidieparasieten zou noemen. Echte witteboordencriminelen die zich als verlichte ondernemers voordoen. Ze beloven de 'afslankende marktgerichte' overheid dat ze haar plannen daadkrachtig waar zullen maken. Ze blijken precies de pasklare oplossingen te bieden om de dromen van de overheid gegarandeerd en winstgevend te realiseren. Met mooie beloften zoals werkgelegenheid en innovatie suggereren ze een toekomstvisie vol economische voorspoed. Middels mooie contracten krijgen hun BV's toegang tot onze subsidiegelden. Maar zodra die potjes leeg zijn, gaan de ondernemingen, helaas helaas, toch failliet. De bestuurders zijn "godzijdank" privé beschermd door hun buitengewone aansprakelijkheid. En kunnen dus dezelfde truc meteen herhalen. (Meer hier)

Wetenschappelijke reuzen nu ook te zien als echte mensen

Op webofstories.com ontdek ik tot m'n grote vreugde veel van de grootse wetenschappers van de vorige eeuw. Op 'film' veranderen indrukwekkende grote namen opeens in verbazingwekkend gemiddeld uitziende echte mensen. Ik zag even een zeer aimabele Manfred Eigen en een Donald Knuth, wiens lichaamstaal voor mij verrassend contrasteert met zijn verbluffende schranderheid. Hier wil ik meer van zien. De verhalen zijn prettig is kleine stukjes geknipt. Dus af en toe een tussendoortje, een brainsnack, dat mag...

Mental metamorphosis or just old age creeping in?

Getting back to work after the holiday season feels different from previous years. I do not know why (yet?), but my brain started to reorganise without any decision from my conscious part.
Hopefully this will turn out for the better. ;-)

Humans creating happiness

Nadine hits the nail:

Amplify’d from blogs.forbes.com

see each other as human beings who actually cared deeply about the same outcomes Read more at blogs.forbes.com

 

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I love work I hate business

This is a spontanious thougt that just is occurring to me. Right now. TODAY'S DOMINANT INTERACTION MODEL IS THE BUSINESS MODEL. And I hate it.
For some reason - or maybe more - it obstructs my work. Everything I do I first have to measure or model so it fits in some kind of commercially or economically defined pattern. I just do not function that way. My thoughts and idea's do not recognise these constraints.
Noting this thought just feels like touching an unsaid taboo. And maybe I am wrong here. Maybe my resentment is a product of my neuroses, my upbringing of any other source of mistakes. But my gut feeling about this is that the obligatory translation is hampering the quality of of my contributions to the collective experience. It makes me hold back. I love my work - if what I do deserves that name - I love what I do and I love to share it. So can we please make another deal here? Just wondering.