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I'm passionate about

People, thinking, soul,

People don't know that I'm good at

poetry ( occasionally)

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• A comment on Conversation: What's the "one" thing you have to do before you die?

  Feb 16 2011: Live fully, live passionately, live disastrously.
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  A comment on Conversation: Celebrating and Inspiring Curiosity as a Key Component in Learning

  Feb 16 2011: A fully support this notion of a "Curiosity Driven Life " and indeed its been my life in large parts. In my experience curiosity is not always welcomed and indeed is feared in some places. Government and corporations at their worst come to mind.
  The education systems as Sir Ken so elegantly points out are almost set up to expressly suppress curiosity.

• A comment on Conversation: Why do I still have multiple cards in my wallet? Why can't we just have one card that we add new accounts to?

  Feb 16 2011: Why stop at one card ? How about no cards?
  Each human is a rich source of biometric uniqueness
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  A comment on Conversation: Should Governments start to measure what really matters to people - their happiness? Or should they stay out of such a private matter?

  Feb 16 2011: Its a lovely idea and of course begs the next question " What is happiness" but can government or rather the machinery of government engage into this area? I don't think government cannot directly improve overall happiness rather use the notion of increased happiness as a guiding image/value behind all policy and action. How would happiness as a policy driver sit with the politics of the state. It seems politicians ( and others) so often use fear as a social control mechanism . Fear of crime, disease, old age, youth, others etc. Would an increase in overall happiness result in reduced overall fear?
  Perhaps the first place to start would be to measure the happiness of governments and their servants.

• A comment on Talk: Jake Shimabukuro plays "Bohemian Rhapsody"

  Feb 3 2011: Funny .. my inital response was wow, then when I got past thinking "hey that's clever , never thought a uke could be played like that etc etc " it got kinda light and thin .