I tend to go through new mottos every few months. Background on some of the old ones are here, here, here and here. “Learning is personal, knowledge is social, truth is an adventure” came to me while staring at a blank description field in the settings of thinkingalive.com, a new WordPress-powered site I set up for [...]
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alfred north whitehead,
michael polanyi,
personal knowledge,
philosophy,
pragmatism,
truth
by Brian on 01-21-2009
in art
This may or may not be interesting to anyone (I’m assuming it’s not) but I feel like I need to write this to get a more coherent sense of the influences that shaped my thinking. Or maybe that’s not it — I don’t really know why I feel like I need to write this, I just [...]
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alfred north whitehead,
autobibliography,
bibliography,
business books,
confucianism,
darwin's dangerous idea,
discipline,
eupsychian management,
friedrich nietzsche,
jacques barzun,
jose ortega y gasset,
peter drucker,
plato,
political theory,
positive psychology,
pragmatism,
reading,
richard rorty,
self-becoming,
self-creation,
william james,
writing
