Procrastination via David Allen
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Daily Archives: July 25, 2025
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Campus Life at the
University of Oxford
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As the technology matures, it becomes less and less relevant. The technology is taken for granted.
~ Donald Norman
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Everybody sees what you seem, but few know what thou art.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Campus Life at
California State University, East Bay
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Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
~ Eric Hoffer
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Happy Saint James’ Day
Wishing all of our readers a joyous Saint James’ Day.
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Building on a Confucian tradition of respect for knowledge, a century-old tradition of university building and a ton of newfound wealth, over the past 20 years China has been steadily building a set of institutions to take on the United States for scientific leadership. But does it have the money, talent and recipe for governance required to achieve this goal?
~ Alex Usher via The World of Higher Education Podcast
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Platforms such as Facebook and Instagram act like dams that capitalize on our natural interest in others and an ageless need for community, hijacking and frustrating our most innate desires, and profiting from them. Solitude, observation, and simple conviviality should be recognized not only as ends in and of themselves, but inalienable rights belonging to anyone lucky enough to be alive.
~ Jenny Odell
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