Monthly Archives: February 2011

چرا تغییر نمی کنی؟

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Ali Sekhavati

 چرا آنطور که دلت می خواهد زندگی نمی کنی؟ یکی از دلایلش انتظار است.  انتظار برای تغییر قانون اساسی مملکت انتظار برای پولدار شدن پدر خانواده انتظار برای پیدا کردن یک شوهر خوب انتظار برای قبول شدن در دانشگاه انتظار … Continue reading →

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No true Scotsman fallacy

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Ali Sekhavati

Imagine Hamish McDonald, a Scotsman, sitting down with his Glasgow Morning Herald and seeing an article about how the “Brighton Sex Maniac Strikes Again.” Hamish is shocked and declares that “No Scotsman would do such a thing.” [Brighton is not … Continue reading →

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How do we get out of our comfort zones?

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Ali Sekhavati

There might not exist a single straight forward answer to this question but one sure way for creating a path out of our comfortable assumptions is to make errors, to be wrong.  Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong … Continue reading →

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Beyond google

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Ali Sekhavati

Recently I came across two Search engines which are unique and noticeable. The first one is Wolframalpha.com, a computational knowledge engine it claims. You can ask many scientific questions on this website and get a direct answer on one page … Continue reading →

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Serendipity

Posted on February 12, 2011 by Ali Sekhavati

The word derives from a Persian fairy tale titled “The Three Princes of Serendip,” the protagonists of which were “always making discoveries, by accident and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of.” “You don’t reach Serendip by plotting … Continue reading →

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Posted on February 10, 2011 by Ali Sekhavati

  Atlas shrugged is a 1080 pages 4 decades bestseller novel about Ayn Rand’s Philosophy: Objectivism. The name “Objectivism” derives from the principle that human knowledge and values are objective: they are not created by the thoughts one has, but … Continue reading →

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Reading and Writing

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Ali Sekhavati

“Unlike modern readers, who follow the flow of a narrative from beginning to end, early modern Englishmen read in fits and starts and jumped from book to book. They broke texts into fragments and assembled them into new patterns by … Continue reading →

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Click to LOOK INSIDE!

Posted on February 6, 2011 by Ali Sekhavati

The number is overwhelming! I mean the number of new books which are published everyday plus the number of books which you have not read plus the number of books which will be published and there is a high chance … Continue reading →

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Context

Posted on February 5, 2011 by Ali Sekhavati

The late Harvard professor Alan Watts, in a lecture on Eastern philosophy, used the following analogy to introduce the subject of context: “ If I draw a circle, most people, when asked what I have drawn, will say I have … Continue reading →

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Expressing yourself

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Ali Sekhavati

Tagging allows you to express your opinion about content and make your judgments, opinions, and identity part of the system. In social tagging systems, some tags serve a dual purpose. Take the tag “funny,” for instance. When you use it, … Continue reading →

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