Welcome to Katin's blog.
This is a hobby blog, not my business or professional blog. Here's where you can find out what I've been tinkering with, contemplating, ranting about, or having fun with lately.
linguistics & language
social systems & observations
info-graphics & life-graphs
integral theory & AQAL
life design & ontology
personality systems & tools
learning & learning strategies
“The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he’ll fight and die for it. The way real science goes is that you come up with lots of ideas, and most of them will be wrong.”
It takes a lot of cool, nerdy passionate & top-end content to get listed in this box. These sites are good use of net time if you like the same kinds of things I do.
TED Conference Videos
Google Tech Talks
FORA tv
Singularity Hub
MIT's Technology Review
Big Think
Open Culture blog
The Edge (of human knowledge)
Universe Today
Make Magazine's YouTube Channel
Make Magazine's web site
Flowing Data
Information is Beautiful blog
K21st Century Knowledge blog
Pomodoro Technique
The Dept. of Numbers
Adafruit Industries
Wordnik: super cool dictionary and what the dictionary always should have been.
We all live busy lives. We also see there are large problems in society facing us. We know that if we don't take the right action, there will be large costs to pay down the road. And yet, even if we did have room in our daily life to help solve these problems, which most of us don't, how do you even know where to begin?
Luckily, there are some brilliant people working hard on solutions, and they work through non-profit organizations to assure visibility in accounting and results. Amazingly, we already know the solutions to 90% of the problems that the general public believe are unsolved - things like the economy, oil dependency, global climate change and pollution.
The problem is that the solutions are not advertised, not popular and not demanded by the people for the government and legislative branches to enact. That isn't happening because not enough citizens know about and understand the solutions.
You can understand. You can help. You can bring the solutions to our nation faster and make things better and stronger. Explore and evaluate these non-profit organizations, and if you find them to be geniuses with solutions and doing good work, then support them!
These are the non-profit organizations that I support with annual donations. I believe they are worth your time to research and your support.
Co-Founder Amory Lovins is a genius and can really cut through the 20th-century assumptions we still have lingering about energy, manufacturing and the cost of oil. To really see what I mean, watch his TED talk from 2005, embedded below.
