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Vision for Humanity

Reading Time: < 1 minute Malcolm has just released a new video on YouTube.

Business Rules of Thumb

Reading Time: < 1 minute Ben Casnocha, a 19 year-old entrepreneur and author, has created a wiki of Business Rules of Thumb. This repository already has a broad collection of quotes and advice, including topics on advertising, product development, negotiation, and investing. Here are a few of the editor’s picks: Before going into a partnership with someone, spend time with…
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Use Mind Maps to Achieve Your Goals

Reading Time: 4 minutes Why is it that the beginning of the year always feels electrical with the excitement of *this year* being the one where you achieve all of your most important goals? Like most people, starting on New Year’s, I spend time thinking about my goals, write many of them down, and start taking action. While I…
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Vision Statement Seminars Coming Soon

Reading Time: < 1 minute Malcolm Cohan, an audacious visionary, has decided to take his vision statement seminars abroad and will be coming to the United States soon. For those of you who haven’t yet heard about Malcolm, or his vision statement movement, check out this article I wrote a few months ago. Malcolm’s first stop will be in Los…
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Omega Mapping: A Creative Twist on Traditional Mind Maps

Reading Time: < 1 minute I recently found out that CS Odessa, makers of ConceptDraw MindMap, have a new blog called ConceptDraw Lab. Yesterday, AlexTG posted an intriguing article about a new thinking technique called Omega Mapping. The original article on Omega Mapping is in Russian, so AlexTG was gracious enough to provide a summary of the post in English.…
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Interview with John Searle

Reading Time: < 1 minute Thanks to MindHacks.com, I discovered that the Boston Globe recently interviewed John Searle, renowned philospher most famously known for his Chinese Room thought experiment. Link to the Q&A session is here.

Mind Map Search Engine

Reading Time: < 1 minute I was inspired today by two recent posts I read: 1) Getting Things Done: Search all GTD resources at once! 2) The Mind Mapping Software Weblog: Check out my mind mapping software “lens” I decided to test out Google Co-op and create my own custom search engine related to mind mapping. I created a list…
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Popular Posts

Reading Time: < 1 minute I’ve just added a Popular Posts section to the main index. These are the top requests posts, based on the most hits at the end of the month. Here is the current list so far: Digital Enlightenment: Using the Internet for Research, Learning, and Education Dataesthetics: The Power and Beauty of Data Visualization How To…
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Chomsky on Iran, Iraq, and the Rest of the World

Reading Time: < 1 minute From Foreign Policy in Focus: Noam Chomsky is a noted linguist, author, and foreign policy expert. On February 9, Michael Shank interviewed him on the latest developments in U.S. policy toward Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and Venezuela. Along the way, Chomsky also commented on climate change, the World Social Forum, and why international relations are…
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Transhumanist Dictionary: Must Know Terms For The 21st Century

Reading Time: < 1 minute George Dvorsky, a blogger who writes about Transhumanism, has published an updated list of must know terms for today’s intelligentsia. George describes the list as follows: First, I am trying to come up with a list of the most fundamental and crucial terms that are coming to define and will soon re-define the human condition,…
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