Graham English

Archive for March, 2006

Show Me The Mystery

From Geekonomics via GenerationSit.org:
What if everything in life were free? You’d think we’d be happier. But game designers know better: We’d be bored.
It’s interesting that virtual worlds also demonstrate absolute/relative truth. To me, understanding the difference is intellectually enough. But the minute I try to think myself into a conclusion about suffering, I lose the [...]

Some Important Absolute Pitch Distinctions

The following absolute pitch distinctions will help you determine where you currently are–if you possess any type of absolute pitch–and also help you identify your growth along the path of absolute pitch development.
Active Absolute Pitch is the ability to sing or hum a pitch without hearing it first.
Passive Absolute Pitch is the ability to identify [...]

Real-Life Optical Illusions

From Real-life optical illusions:

I guess they’re not “illusions” anymore, are they?

NLP Advanced Language Patterns Mastery Day 5: Presuppositional Forms: Subordinate Clauses of Time

Presuppositional Forms: Subordinate Clauses of Time – Today, when someone presents a simple outcome or limitation (using few enough words that it can be presupposed in a longer sentence. Ex. “being confident” or “making more money”), use the following presuppositional form to presuppose the outcome or to change the limitation into a resource.
Subordinate Clauses of [...]

NLP Advanced Language Patterns Mastery Day 4: Presuppositional Forms: Relative Clauses

Presuppositional Forms: Relative Clauses – Today, when someone presents a simple outcome or limitation (using few enough words that it can be presupposed in a longer sentence. Ex. “being confident” or “making more money”), use the following presuppositional form to presuppose the outcome or to change the limitation into a resource.
Relative Clauses: a noun followed [...]

Bruce Sterling on SPIMES

Rocketboom has a cool show today. It features Bruce Sterling on SPIMES: Objects trackable through SPace and tIME.
Link: rb_06_mar_29

The Web 2.0 Awards and Keotag

I got two great links from Steve Rubel today.
First is The Web 2.0 Awards. Over 300 Web 2.0 sites in 38 categories.
Second is Keotag. The first thing I did was grab the tag feeds for “graham english”. It’s a slick way to keep track of what people are saying about you on the internet. And [...]

NLP Advanced Language Patterns Mastery Day 3: Changing Time Frame

Changing Time Frame – Today, think of a limitation and a resource. For example, believing you are not intelligent could be a limitation and learning something new could be a resource. Put 1, 2, 3 in any of the boxes of the chart below. Use words to match the sequence of numbers in the boxes [...]

NLP Advanced Language Patterns Mastery Day 2: Backtracking

Backtracking – Today, when you or someone else presents a limitation, put the limitation into the past and the outcome into the future, using verb form only (without using the word “past” or “future”).
Examples:
“If you could make this change for yourself, so that you could STOP, having already made that change, and see yourself now, [...]

How To Write For Busy People

Seeing that I’m deep into optimizing my GTD system at the moment, this seems appropriate:
How to Write for Busy People
It’s important to remember that my readers are busy people too Bodhisattvas.

Kinkless GTD 0.83 Released

YES! Kinkless GTD 0.83 has just been released. I’ve been refreshing the site all weekend.
Go get it: Kinkless GTD 0.83

Another Drawing Savant And His Imaginary City

Here’s another autistic savant profile only this time the art is from his imagination.
Link: Boing Boing

Ear Training FAQ and EarTrainingHacks

I’ve reserved a special tag for all ear training frequently asked questions. Some of them have to do with Absolute Pitch Power and some of them deal with ear training in general. So if you have any questions, check this FAQ tag first.
If you’re interested in “hacking” your ear, i.e. finding creative solutions to common [...]

NLP Advanced Language Patterns Mastery Day 1: Verb Relaxes

I designed an NLP advanced language patterns mastery series to help you move through the following four stages of learning as you integrate these language skills:

Unconscious incompetence
Conscious incompetence
Conscious competence
Unconscious competence

I’ll post a new language pattern each day. After completing the series once, feel free to use it a second or third time until you have [...]

Integral Copyright

Copyright (from Wikipedia):
It appears publishers, rather than authors, were the first to seek restrictions on copying printed works. Given that publishers now obtain the copyright from the authors as a condition of mass reproduction of a work, one of the criticisms of the current system is that it benefits publishers more than it does authors. [...]

Lawrence Lessig On Indie Fairness

Lawrence Lessig professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society. He’s leading the conversation about the challenges of intellectual property and copyright in the digital age. From his blog:
The band Beatnik Turtle has released an “Indie Band Survival Guide” (free, as in CC). They’ve also now practiced [...]

The Archive Of Endangered, Special, Or Fun Words

Here’s a fun website I found from Lorelle. I, for one, am going to start saying twitterpated more often. Right after I start calling people “ace.”
Link: The Archive of Endangered, Special, or Fun Words

Science As Practice

From The Future Of Science:
Kevin Kelly has some fascinating ideas about where science as a practice is going in the next 50 years. Just the topic headings make for crunchy, futurismic reading: compiled negative results, triple blind experiments, combinatorial sweep exploration, and the list goes on.
Kelly’s definitely an integral thinker (transcend and include):
New informational organizations [...]

Oh My God, They Killed Chef! You Bastards!

Kyle:
A lot of us don’t agree with the choices the Chef has made in the last few days. Some of us feel hurt and confused that he seemed to turn his back on us. But we can’t let the events of the past few weeks take away the memories of how Chef made us smile. [...]

A Smart Business Model

It looks like Dave Winer hasn’t stopped blogging yet. Good thing…
Fred Wilson’s favorite business model: “Give your service away for free, possibly ad supported but maybe not, acquire a lot of customers very efficiently through word of mouth, referral networks, organic search marketing, etc, then offer premium priced value added services or an enhanced version [...]