But we are also capable of using our compassion, and our intelligence, our technology and our wealth to make an abundant and meaningful life for every inhabitant of this planet, to enhance enormously our understanding of the universe, and to carry us to the stars. - Carl Sagan That's certainly a message worth checking in on from time to time.If we capitulate to superstition, greed, or stupidity, we can plunge our world into a darkness deeper than the time between the collapse of classical civilization and the Italian Renaissance.
I'm around! What made you think of me? (I've been working on http://github.com/akkartik/mu)
Weird, that comment is from a different thread. I think it's the testing that mk mentioned elsewhere on this thread. But glad it led to some serendipitous conversation :) I still lurk from time to time, but I've just been a lot less active online for the past year as my project's cannibalized more and more of my attention. "Flow" says people should go through alternating phases of openness and closed "shut up and execute". The latter has been my story for quite a while now. http://www.amazon.com/Flow-Psychology-Experience-Perennial-Classics/dp/0061339202