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  1. "The Leader's Way" is by the Dalai Lama. He struggled to unify Buddhism with communism, succeeded in unifying Buddhism with capitalism.
  2. Next: "The Leader's Way: The art of making the right decisions in our careers, our companies, and the world at large" http://bit.ly/7Mnxep
  3. Finished reading "The Opposable Mind: Winning Through Integrative Thinking" http://bit.ly/8DyKwH -- Ready to read it again!
  4. After many months away I got back into hot yoga today, beginning a 30-day challenge at http://studioyogatempe.com
  5. @TrishMcCarty RT @irasocol Crossing America, An Education http://is.gd/54RjD New Blog Post on Student Difference | Don't miss this!
  6. Salingaros summary 2: Christopher Alexander's pattern languages need to be coupled with powerful, expressive, and *humane* form languages.
  7. Salingaros summary 1: Modernistic architecture, emphasizing abstract geometry, lacks "life"; humane arch. requires details at all scales.
  8. Salingaros's goal: Architecture that is ruthlessly adaptive to human uses and sensibilities; that connects us to the world.
  9. Nikos Salingaros meme: geometric fundamentalism -- in architecture, preferring abstract geometric forms to "living", useful buildings.
  10. After half of "A Theory of Architecture", I think a more accurate title is "Visual Esthetics in Architecture". Function seems to be ignored.
  11. Reading "A Theory of Architecture" http://bit.ly/76qpFK by Nikos Salingaros. Some say he's the heir to Christopher Alexander.
  12. @GuyKawasaki cFares/Kiplinger note on Garage home page needs updating. "28 Best Travel Sites" no longer mentions cFares.
  13. Senior named Gavin and 6th-grader Brianna pitched in (thank you!!!), but some HS "athletes" sat around smirking as we labored. Pathetic.
  14. My college counselor wife was setting up for the PLAN test tomorrow at Tempe Prep, so my daughter and I got to help move a LOT of furniture.
  15. The two most liberal people I follow have become very critical of President's ed policies -- esp. Arne's support for prison-like schools.
  16. @scottjantzen Saw a demo of http://spiraluniverse.com at Arizona Charter Schools Conference. Impressive, but still in beta. #azcsc09
  17. Spiral Universe: Won't make money on software, but on helping schools run themselves better, sustaining the "school economy" #azcsc090
  18. http://www.spiraluniverse.com has cool school software suite: calendar, email, gradebook, report cards, reporting, etc., etc. #azcsc09
  19. Day Two (of two), 2009 Arizona Charter Schools Conference #azcsc09 Mainly following the IT Specialist's track today.
  20. So ends Day One of the 2009 Arizona Charter Schools Conference #azcsc09