Ponder Ventures

Schools should not seek to slake our thirst for knowledge but to stuff our mouths with gauze till we never forget our cottonmouth.

I'm starting to wonder if #gamification isn't simply what we referred to before the participant ribbon era as #competition.

The human defense mechanism for "information overload" is to simplify the world to confirm our biases. -Alvin Toffler, Future Shock (1970)

The primary design principle underlying the Web’s usefulness and growth is universality. -Tim Berners-Lee http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=long-live-the-web …

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know. -TS Eliot #bigdata

If your business thrives in opacity & inefficiency, prepare for the sting of a thousand papercuts.

Vint Cerf: "[The Net] wasn't designed to do anything in particular, and that's why it's been able to do almost anything we can think of..."

double stealth mode (noun): the public doesn't know what we're building and neither do we. Source: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4166183 

Premise of most apps: what's an idea simple enough to explain to a teen, but confusing enough to get an investment from an adult? @Gizmodo

Einstein on anyone who only reads periodicals & books of recent vintage: "an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses"

We teach how we were taught, so teachers need to learn with tech b4 they can be expected to teach with tech. http://bit.ly/XpY8jq  #WYMIWYG

EC wealth angst-ridden bc made by litigation & trading paper. WC wealth laid back bc made by creating new things. #newtienotie @espn_colin

Ancient greek education technology: scrolls, wax tablet, stylus, sandals. Outcomes: democracy, philosophy, etc.

"...But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know." ~graduate of Princeton

"...We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say, we know there are some things we do not know..."