Are You an Expert
Why can't people be happy being None-expert, experts? We all know something worth sharing with others based on our life experience so why do we need a label? What have we got to prove?
Everyone thinks they are an expert these days or wants to be one so that they have a claim to fame. Whether it is arcane, urbane or just plain insane everyone has a point of view about something or other.
Do you have special knowledge about some topic or subject that you have acquired through your own personal experiences? I bet you do. In my book that makes you potentially a Non-expert, expert. All you have to do to qualify yourself is to share that knowledge with others.
It doesn't matter if your particular field of wisdom has something to do with cooking or gardening or fishing or sports or rocket science. If you know something special and are willing to share it with other people that makes you a Non-expert, expert. You qualify. Isn't that great?
Stop and think about what area you have special knowledge of. Here they are:
1. Sports
2. Fishing
3. Love Making
4. Spiritual
5. Home Repair
6. Financing
7. Investing
8. Debt Management
9. Science
10. Healthy Living
11. Disease prevention
You just need to stop and think about what you are good at and what you like to do, and then share that knowledge with others and you can become an instant qualified Non-expert, expect. Isn't that wonderful? Don't you want to get the recognition you deserve and share your knowledge with others?
Talking about becoming a Non-expert, expert, and getting the recognition you are entitled to. Don't forget when you share your answers or gems of wisdom with others to promote yourself.
How else are people going to know that you are someone special? Be sure when you are sharing your knowledge that you mention what you do and where what is special to you can be seen such as for example your Website or Blog. If you don't promote yourself who will? So if you have answers to questions or just interesting questions that need answers or any worthwhile kind of special knowledge please share it with others.
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Saturday, August 15, 2009
To Conserve Knowledge
To Conserve Knowledge
People in the high-tech industries don't like to demonstrate knowledge of older technology. In some circles of the computer field such knowledge actually carries a stigma!
There are valid arguments for using NEW technology whenever possible. Older technology at whatever level is a mixture of elegance and crudeness, with old questions answered and new questions left unanswered, problems left unsolved. Most young people (and a lot of old people, too) tend to take this view, and lace it with scorn for the old.
As a result, some people will avoid mention of older stuff except in a disparaging sentence.
I did what I could using limited resources. Japanese in past generations built thin paper houses to stretch their extremely limited natural resources. When I see people with what I call "Starship" computers with tremendous resources -- superfast processors, huge RAM, superhuge capacity hard drives, advanced and versatile programs, and wizardlike peripherals -- yet lack basic communication skills, basic historical and cultural knowledge, the essential elements of a classical education, I'm appalled.
While older technology is relatively crude, it does do the job for which it was designed. We tend to think of technological advancement as an ordinal progression, rather than an expansion in different directions. CD-R burner drives are preferred over zip disks in desktop computers as the compact disks have greater storage capacity, but that doesn't mean that zip drives are a more primitive technology. (Actually, files can be stored more quickly on a zip disk than on a CD, no special software is required to write the files, and the zip disk is in a sturdy casing that protects it from damage unlike the CD.)
Computer pioneers John Mauchley and J. Presper Eckert, inventors of the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer), had plans to produce concurrent computer processors, but serial processors took off and concurrent processors fell by the wayside; that doesn't mean that concurrent processing is an old-fashioned, primitive, or inferior concept (ironically, serial or Von Neumann processor-based programs may PRETEND to be concurrent processors through use of semaphores, mutexes, critical sections, etc.).
It enables people to develop software more quickly than with previous development environments. McCoy made the connection that adrenaline shot through Chekov's system and made him resistant to radiation. Dr. Janet Wallace said that another medicine, hironaline, was used in radiation treatment instead, but "Bones" said that adrenaline was used in earlier radiation treatment research. A serum containing adrenaline was given to the surviving agers and they were restored to their proper biological ages. A recommendation was made to the Federation scientific community to include adrenaline in further studies on radiation. The point is that not all old ideas are useless, primitive, nor naïve, and not all new ideas are better.
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People in the high-tech industries don't like to demonstrate knowledge of older technology. In some circles of the computer field such knowledge actually carries a stigma!
There are valid arguments for using NEW technology whenever possible. Older technology at whatever level is a mixture of elegance and crudeness, with old questions answered and new questions left unanswered, problems left unsolved. Most young people (and a lot of old people, too) tend to take this view, and lace it with scorn for the old.
As a result, some people will avoid mention of older stuff except in a disparaging sentence.
I did what I could using limited resources. Japanese in past generations built thin paper houses to stretch their extremely limited natural resources. When I see people with what I call "Starship" computers with tremendous resources -- superfast processors, huge RAM, superhuge capacity hard drives, advanced and versatile programs, and wizardlike peripherals -- yet lack basic communication skills, basic historical and cultural knowledge, the essential elements of a classical education, I'm appalled.
While older technology is relatively crude, it does do the job for which it was designed. We tend to think of technological advancement as an ordinal progression, rather than an expansion in different directions. CD-R burner drives are preferred over zip disks in desktop computers as the compact disks have greater storage capacity, but that doesn't mean that zip drives are a more primitive technology. (Actually, files can be stored more quickly on a zip disk than on a CD, no special software is required to write the files, and the zip disk is in a sturdy casing that protects it from damage unlike the CD.)
Computer pioneers John Mauchley and J. Presper Eckert, inventors of the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer), had plans to produce concurrent computer processors, but serial processors took off and concurrent processors fell by the wayside; that doesn't mean that concurrent processing is an old-fashioned, primitive, or inferior concept (ironically, serial or Von Neumann processor-based programs may PRETEND to be concurrent processors through use of semaphores, mutexes, critical sections, etc.).
It enables people to develop software more quickly than with previous development environments. McCoy made the connection that adrenaline shot through Chekov's system and made him resistant to radiation. Dr. Janet Wallace said that another medicine, hironaline, was used in radiation treatment instead, but "Bones" said that adrenaline was used in earlier radiation treatment research. A serum containing adrenaline was given to the surviving agers and they were restored to their proper biological ages. A recommendation was made to the Federation scientific community to include adrenaline in further studies on radiation. The point is that not all old ideas are useless, primitive, nor naïve, and not all new ideas are better.
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Power and Knowledge
Power and Knowledge
It is common to think what one would do if he or she was a king or the president. We imagine that we would do good things; better than what is being done now. We think of power in personal terms too, as when we imagine that enough money or control over others would enable us to solve most of our problems. As for our "if I was emperor" fantasies, what makes us think that all the presidents and kings of the world haven't shared our thoughts? They too undoubtedly planned to use their power for good.
How, then, do we arrive at a power which is good and useful? Money is an obvious one. I have also seen people try to help others with money, only to make matters worse. Having money without proper knowledge and understanding is like having a car without a steering wheel - it's a wreck waiting to happen.
Suppose you study subliminal influence over others, and learn powerful techniques. You use your secret techniques to win the love of a woman or man, but perhaps the relationship adds only pain to your life. There are other tools of power. Political connections, knowledge, and charisma come to mind. This gets us to the real source of a good and useful power.
Self Knowledge is also a kind of tool of power. You cannot be powerful in a good sense without a high degree of self knowledge. You have to first exercise a kind of personal power to observe yourself honestly and come to understand who you are, what you need, and the nature of your relationship to the rest of the world.
One definition of power is "The ability or capacity to perform or act effectively." It raises the natural question, "effective for what?" In other words, we have to truly know what our highest values are, or the specific manifestations of power become self-destructive and destructive of others as well.
To return to the metaphor of the infant with a knife: He does not understand his own body, or the danger of a knife to that body and others, or how to use it and for what purposes. If what money you have now is not used wisely, why would having more change that? Seeking a better understanding of ourselves and the world is the path to true power.
It is common to think what one would do if he or she was a king or the president. We imagine that we would do good things; better than what is being done now. We think of power in personal terms too, as when we imagine that enough money or control over others would enable us to solve most of our problems. As for our "if I was emperor" fantasies, what makes us think that all the presidents and kings of the world haven't shared our thoughts? They too undoubtedly planned to use their power for good.
How, then, do we arrive at a power which is good and useful? Money is an obvious one. I have also seen people try to help others with money, only to make matters worse. Having money without proper knowledge and understanding is like having a car without a steering wheel - it's a wreck waiting to happen.
Suppose you study subliminal influence over others, and learn powerful techniques. You use your secret techniques to win the love of a woman or man, but perhaps the relationship adds only pain to your life. There are other tools of power. Political connections, knowledge, and charisma come to mind. This gets us to the real source of a good and useful power.
Self Knowledge is also a kind of tool of power. You cannot be powerful in a good sense without a high degree of self knowledge. You have to first exercise a kind of personal power to observe yourself honestly and come to understand who you are, what you need, and the nature of your relationship to the rest of the world.
One definition of power is "The ability or capacity to perform or act effectively." It raises the natural question, "effective for what?" In other words, we have to truly know what our highest values are, or the specific manifestations of power become self-destructive and destructive of others as well.
To return to the metaphor of the infant with a knife: He does not understand his own body, or the danger of a knife to that body and others, or how to use it and for what purposes. If what money you have now is not used wisely, why would having more change that? Seeking a better understanding of ourselves and the world is the path to true power.
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