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the leading company in the world for development of powerful liquid rocket engines for space launch vehicles. The history of the company dates back to May 15, 1929. Over the years there were developed some 60 rocket engine, which was made in the run and operated and continue to operate in the space and military rockets.

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Jan

2012

The American Scholar: Solitude and Leadership - William Deresiewicz

this is excellent

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I can assure you from personal experience that there are a lot of highly educated people who don’t know how to think at all.
No, what makes him a thinker—and a leader—is precisely that he is able to think things through for himself. And because he can, he has the confidence, the courage, to argue for his ideas even when they aren’t popular. Even when they don’t please his superiors. Courage: there is physical courage, which you all possess in abundance, and then there is another kind of courage, moral courage, the courage to stand up for what you believe.
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- the idea that true leadership means being able to think for yourself and act on your convictions. But how do you learn to do that? How do you learn to think? Let’s start with how you don’t learn to think.
- In other words, people do not multitask effectively. And here’s the really surprising finding: the more people multitask, the worse they are, not just at other mental abilities, but at multitasking itself.
- Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it.
- Not learning other people’s ideas, or memorizing a body of information, however much those may sometimes be useful. Developing your own ideas. In short, thinking for yourself. You simply cannot do that in bursts of 20 seconds at a time, constantly interrupted by Facebook messages or Twitter tweets, or fiddling with your iPod, or watching something on YouTube.
- Thomas Mann said that a writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
- You do your best thinking by slowing down and concentrating.
- It means gathering yourself together into a single point rather than letting yourself be dispersed everywhere into a cloud of electronic and social input. It seems to me that Facebook and Twitter and YouTube—and just so you don’t think this is a generational thing, TV and radio and magazines and even newspapers, too—are all ultimately just an elaborate excuse to run away from yourself. To avoid the difficult and troubling questions that being human throws in your way. Am I doing the right thing with my life? Do I believe the things I was taught as a child? What do the words I live by—words like duty, honor, and country—really mean? Am I happy?
- Marlow believes in the need to find yourself just as much as anyone does, and the way to do it, he says, is work, solitary work. Concentration. Climbing on that steamboat and spending a few uninterrupted hours hammering it into shape. Or building a house, or cooking a meal, or even writing a college paper, if you really put yourself into it.
- you are continuously bombarding yourself with a stream of other people’s thoughts. You are marinating yourself in the conventional wisdom. In other people’s reality: for others, not for yourself.
- “he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.”
- But the great books, the ones you find on a syllabus, the ones people have continued to read, don’t reflect the conventional wisdom of their day. They say things that have the permanent power to disrupt our habits of thought.
- I’m talking about one kind of friendship in particular, the deep friendship of intimate conversation. Long, uninterrupted talk with one other person. Not Skyping with three people and texting with two others at the same time while you hang out in a friend’s room listening to music and studying. That’s what Emerson meant when he said that “the soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude.”
- Introspection means talking to yourself, and one of the best ways of talking to yourself is by talking to another person. One other person you can trust, one other person to whom you can unfold your soul. One other person you feel safe enough with to allow you to acknowledge things—to acknowledge things to yourself—that you otherwise can’t. Doubts you aren’t supposed to have, questions you aren’t supposed to ask. Feelings or opinions that would get you laughed at by the group or reprimanded by the authorities.
- And the way to do it is by thinking through these issues for yourself—morality, mortality, honor—so you will have the strength to deal with them when they arise. Waiting until you have to confront them in practice would be like waiting for your first firefight to learn how to shoot your weapon. Once the situation is upon you, it’s too late.

Dec

2011

Enlarge this photo and stare at red dot

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interesting optical illusion

Nov

2011

The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin | Magazine

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bitcoin economy currency wired interesting distributed network security

Nov

2011

Vitals - How to spot psychopaths: Speech patterns give them away

you never know when it might come in handy... :)

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psychopaths speech patterns research interesting humans

Sep

2011

AP Bio- Evolution 6: Brief History of Life by David Knuffke on Prezi

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prezi interesting life presentation evolution biology research

Sep

2011

Flavorwire » NYC Goes From Day to Night in One Frame

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NYC photography interesting design art

Aug

2011

13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World

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Aug

2011

A World Without the IBM PC

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IBM PC history interesting computers technology Microsoft Intel alternative

May

2011

Nanolaw with Daughter (Ftrain.com)

Fascinating. A must read.

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fiction privacy law legal future interesting personaldata

Apr

2011

Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies

www.michaeleisen.org/blog

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Amazon technology algorithm price interesting books

Mar

2011

NASA Scientist Claims To Have Found Evidence Of Extraterrestrial LIfe

things are hotting up on the extra-terrestrial front...

www.the9billion.com/...dence-of-extraterrestrial-life

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nasa scientist life extra-terrestrial universe space interesting

Mar

2011

Why does the British Ambassador need a blog?

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ambassador politics blogging communication interesting media audiences

Feb

2011

Make: Online » Why the Arduino Won and Why It’s Here to Stay

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arduino technology hardware trends interesting hacking opensource

Jan

2011

John Thackara: How the Banks Want to Make China Sick — and Broke: Observers Room: Design Observer

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banks healthcare US china interesting

Dec

2010

Google’s Big Problem: It Ain’t What You Think: Tech News «

interesting article that rings true

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google gigaom UI design interesting user-centric

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