Seb Paquet

"Regarding your last point, you might be interested in a blog post I wrote recently on the very near-future impact of YouTube on teachers: http://openresearch.sebpaquet.net/2009..." - Seb Paquet

This is bad. The visionary editor of the infamous Red Rock Eater mailing list and former UCLA professor has been reported missing. - Seb Paquet

Wow, some people actually write good retorts in blog comments. Thanks Mark! - Seb Paquet

This document, a working paper from GOPAC, Newt Gingrich's political action committee, was circulated to freshman Republican members of the 104th Congress in 1995. It functions as a rudimentary rhetorical handbook, providing inexperienced political speakers with a lexicon of terms that drive a wedge of distinctions between themselves and members of the opposing party. At the same time it educates them in a common language that will give evidence of their solidarity with the Speaker of the House and his goals for the Republican majority. - Seb Paquet

We are blessed with a richness of specializations, but cursed with a paucity of panoptic disciplines-categories of knowledge that concentrate on seeing the pattern that emerges when one views all the sciences at once. Hence we need a field dedicated to the panoramic, an academic base for the promiscuously curious - Seb Paquet

In their essay "Out of our minds", journalist Vanessa Woods and anthropologist Brian Hare suggest that it wasn't intelligence that led to social behaviour, but rather social behaviour that paved the way for the evolution of human intelligence. "Humans got their smarts only because we got friendlier first," they write. - Seb Paquet

W00t, Drexler is blogging - Seb Paquet

Barcamp meets TED a bit north of Montreal - Seb Paquet

Facebook, on the other hand, has already captured the collective mind share of the mainstream and can take the good ideas set forth by early adopter hits and repackage them in ways that their users are more apt to consume. - Seb Paquet

Powers of Two, biology domain - Seb Paquet

[...] said that people often start negotiating from what they think they can get, not what they really want--so even if the other person says yes, they are still disappointed. It said that people should start by being honest about 100% of what they want. My partner and I use this all the time, for things big and small. [...] It's great because one thing that is surprising is how often you can have your 100%--and then you feel really lucky and happy and loved. And you also have the satisfaction of knowing that you gave your partner what they _really_ wanted. On the other hand, if the 100% isn't possible and you have to negotiate down from there, you at least know that what you wanted was heard. Everyone we've told this to begins using it and then raves about how great it is. Now we use it all the time with friends as well as with each other. - Seb Paquet

Just found a genuine leader of the learning revolution in Colombia. Exciting! - Seb Paquet

"Do you have a Twitter account?" - Seb Paquet

"(I meant: Good job, or good life in general.)" - Seb Paquet

"Las buenas ideas en este blog! Re: law of two feed, schools can force students to be physically in class, but they can't control what they do. So the student could spend the time doing homework or (if he's sneaky enough) use his mobile device to listen to a good lecture on the same topic the teacher is talking about. Re: translation - of course the best lectures in any languages need to be translated for the whole world's benefit. Already this has begun on dotsub.com Re: how many people are at university to learn: a small and declining proportion. I think enrollment will start to go down as people find less and less correlation between university education and having a good job, and more and more correlation between self-organized learning and having a good job." - Seb Paquet

Maybe you can be the first generation whose greatest regret from high school isn't how much time you wasted. - Seb Paquet