2 posts tagged “wake up pad”

Scanning newspaper - The Capital (Annapolis, MD) article on US crime statistics

FBI ranking of the top 10 most dangerous/safest cities in US (Morgan Quinto Press)

Most Dangerous                     Safest

1. St Louis                              Brick, NJ
2. Detroit                                 Amherst, NY
3. Flint, MI                              Mission Viejo, CA
4. Compton, CA                       Newton, MA
5. Camden, NJ                        Troy, MI
6. Birmingham, AL                   Colonie, NY
7. Cleveland                            Irvine, CA
8. Oakland                              Cary, NC
9. Youngstown, OH                  Greece, NY
10. Gary, IN                            Coral Springs, FL

First blush pondering:

The most dangerous part of the country could be the Midwest, with  6 of the 10  most dangerous cities.

The safest part of the country could be the East, with  5 out of the 10 most safe cities.

Old industrial cities are 8 of the 10 most dangerous.

All of the most safe cities are smaller than any of the most dangerous cities.

The two cities that I live between (about 20 miles or so from each) are  12 (Baltimore) and 19 (Washington) on the most dangerous list.

Scanning Watts Wacker, fururist, from an online presentation

"Out on the edge is where everything begins. Whatever it is that you want your future to be, it begins on the edge."

"The edge is where everything begins, and it starts its migration to the development of our context for the times in which we live."

"Cultural schizophrenia is really nothing more and nothing less than the gap between the world as we intuit it and the world as it presents itself."

"Autocatalytic change creates its own change as it goes."

"How you organize your view of the future has an awful lot to do with what happens in it."

The Pillars Of Creation/Innovation

"Scope - you have to give yourself permission to think big."

"Attention to detail - anyone who says, "That's just a little thing," I think is a candidate to be fired. Absolute commitment to the smallest of issues is important in creation."

"You have to challenge convention - how do you give yourself permission to break out of norms?"

"You have to insert fun. 70% of everything you learn in life is through play."

"You have to create your own process. You have to find out what inspires you, personally. 80% of life is just showing up, but for just showing up you get a "C." The way you bring your A game is you find what inspires you, and not only do you find what inspires you, you give yourself a chance to reflect, to incubate."

This is all in quotes because I thought it was so good - and I kept pausing the player to make sure I got it right. (I think I did.)

I have the bottom and center books, and the third one (top right) is on my Christmas wish list - I've heard it's excellent. (Hint, hint...)