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Author Archives: Cory Rove
Virtual Reality: The Empathy Machine
This is Water
This speech should make you think about a lot of things. I have listened to this many times, and it gets better each time.
Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson
The Surprising Truth about what Motivates Us
Is there an Afterlife?
In the hospital, I lay on my death bed tucked into starched white sheets where I will die. If there is an afterlife to come I will find out, just not at this moment. Right now, in the bed next to me, an old man’s time has come to pass into the unknown. Out of […]
The Pentatonic Scale – Bobby McFerrin
Wally Goes to Lunch
I slide my only quarter into the meter—one hour for lunch—and check my wallet to make sure I haven’t already lost the only twenty dollars to my name. Since I never get to go out with my girlfriend, my roommate Aric let me borrow some cash. Post doctoral students don’t make much. My watch reads 12:02; […]
Writing is like swimming in Shit
Writing is like swimming in a sea of shit and it is a one man race to the finish. One day you wake up in this vast ocean of crap and you have to swim to the other side, but you are not told where the other side is. So you just start swimming, trying […]
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
David vs. Goliath is about how the underdog is not at the perceived disadvantage when entering or dealing with a hard situation. Gladwell goes through a bunch of stories where our preconceived notions are wrong and actually hurt our decision making abilities and mask what we see at the outcome. His best example is the […]
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