Christopher Galtenberg

"At the recent Ecomm conference delegates were provided with Google Wave accounts. What resulted was a fantastic showcase of collaboration and crowd-sourcing. Sprinkled with a good dose of integrated offline and online real-time social media." - Christopher Galtenberg from Bookmarklet

"Every once in a while you get to see a mainstream outlet cover a story right alongside a blog, so you can put them up against each other and see why one was so much better than the other. This week TechCrunch and the New York Times (photo) provided just such a lesson." - Christopher Galtenberg from Bookmarklet

"After all this, we woke up Saturday to find a story in the New York Times, also about Zynga (and other Facebook game companies) with the headline, "Virtual Goods Start Bringing Real Paydays." The Times put two reporters on the knob-polisher, and somehow they managed to interview Pincus, and to quote him -- and yet they included not a single word about the scammy ads. Not. A. Fucking.... more... - Christopher Galtenberg

"Jack is looking at Anne, but Anne is looking at George. Jack is married, but George is not. Is a married person looking at an unmarried person? A) Yes. B) No. C) Cannot be determined." - Christopher Galtenberg from Bookmarklet

"Science is usually presented as a body of knowledge — facts to be memorized, equations to be solved, concepts to be understood, discoveries to be applauded. But this approach can give students two misleading impressions." - Christopher Galtenberg from Bookmarklet

It is exactly what I have always thought but people don't think that and students also : too bad! - bellegarde-webb

"Overton described a method for moving that window, thereby including previously excluded ideas, while excluding previously acceptable ideas. The technique relies on people promoting ideas even less acceptable than the previous "outer fringe" ideas. That makes those old fringe ideas look less extreme, and thereby acceptable. The idea is that priming the public with fringe ideas intended to be and remain unacceptable, will make the real target ideas seem more acceptable by comparison." - Christopher Galtenberg from Bookmarklet

"All progress paves over some bit of knowledge or washes away some valuable practice. Within a few years, e-mail and Twitter moved the art of letter writing to the trash bin. And in an age when all psychic life is being understood in terms of neurotransmitters, the art of introspection has been become passé. Galileos of the inner world, such as Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), have been packed off to the museum of antiquated ideas. Yet I think that the great and highly quirky Dane could help us to retrieve a distinction that has been effaced." - Christopher Galtenberg from Bookmarklet

"We, who have listened to Prozac, have become deaf to the ancient distinction between psychological and spiritual disorders, between depression and despair. - Christopher Galtenberg

"Look, no one enjoyed Pineapple Express as much as I did, but this is a serious issue. It's about Obama's conservative restoration of federalism; and it's about finding ways to help sick people manage their illness and pain in the most effective way possible. Boomers remember their college years and that's the prism through which they see this. But it's about basic freedoms, states' rights, and humane treatment of the ill. What's so hilarious about that?" - Christopher Galtenberg from Bookmarklet

"For many of us time is an enemy. The anxiety triggered by “the ticking clock” and deadlines to be met leads to ineffective work and study habits and procrastination. The Pomodoro Technique transforms time into a valuable ally." - Christopher Galtenberg from Bookmarklet