Cultivating Curiosity

I came across the transcript to a talk Richard Hamming gave to the Bell Communications Research Colloquium in 1986, and was inspired to share some of his thoughts about great scientists and doing great work, as they mirror many of my own ideas about cultivating curiosity and curious explorers. While at Bell Labs, Mr. Hamming  Read more »

Last night, my good friend Tara and I were having a very thought provoking conversation about Leadership and Management. We have know each other for over 10 years, spending most of those years working for Kinko’s in Management and Leadership roles. As we continued to talk about what management and leadership meant to us and  Read more »

Books are crucial to our understanding of our place in time and space, because they are fundamentally composed of time and space. They carry with them the history of thought, of physical presence and of psychological evolution that created them, and moved them forward. To understand ourselves we need to understand our past. To understand  Read more »

“While you live, create your own beautiful bead, the jewel of a life intelligently and generously lived, so that you may leave it behind to be strung on the necklace that adorns mankind, time and history” We are all a part of something, something truly great, a oneness that encompasses everything. The important thing is  Read more »

Connecting ideas to people and people to ideas. People are fascinated with the past, whether it is their own family history, the history of their town, the Civil War, Lewis and Clark, or the Anasazi. There is a mystery and nostalgia associated with the past that captivates the imagination as well as the intellect-the desire  Read more »

Connecting ideas to people and people to ideas ! A land without ruins is a land without memories. As manager of almost 200 million acres of public land, the National Forest System is entrusted with the stewardship of a large share of the nation’s historical and cultural heritage. They can be proud of many of  Read more »