Emergence

“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both.” L. P. Jacks

Writing & photography. Two seemingly static forms that could not be more alive. With all the noise, these forms drive social media.

It's not the success or failure of this particular device that matters, it's that Google went in and gave us all a chance to look into the future, to talk about what that might feel like. Glass pushed us to ask, what boundaries of connection are we willing to accept? We still don't know. It's also permission to come back and do it better. What we learn from failure fuels further innovation. Persistence as key as invention. Google continues to impress. http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/15/as-developers-depart-google-glass-is-ready-to-become-this-eras-segway/

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. - Howard Thurman

Students show the lowest levels of enjoyment during learning under the conditions in which they learn the most, and the feeling of confusion turns out to be the best predictor of learning. -- Annie Murphy Paul 

Innovation is as much pattern recognition as it is original ideas.

Failure is entirely a matter of attitude.

Sometimes the best question is why are we asking that?

In a world of vast interconnection, extensibility provides scale. Teaching is your knowledge API.

You never really arrive. You are always becoming. You are newer, not older. Your attitude is the antidote. This is emergence. 

Zoom all the way out. Let go of everything for a moment. There is nothing more important than laughing together. This is the space of memories.

Space is personal. Some space shouldn't be filled. Let it be empty. Leaving space alone lets you continue to think about what to do with it.

The best leaders don't make you feel like they're leading, they make you feel like you're learning.

Great ideas have a simple story. You can't just have a great idea. You have to tell its story - a simple story. It's a story others can tell themselves almost immediately in their own words. That simple.