Posted in Nepôsts in English! on jun 3rd, 2009
My Gengibre´s Podcast:
The difference between data, information, knowledge and wisdom.
Text of Podcast:
There is a certain confusion between data, information, knowledge, and wisdom.
Data is like a raindrop.
You are walking and feel one, two, three drops.
This doesn’t mean it’s raining.
It could be an air conditioner dripping in a hot summer day.
When you look at the sky and [...]
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Posted in Nepôsts in English! on mai 19th, 2009
If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him (Seneca).
We are living through an unprecedented event in human history: in just one generation we have passed through three knowledge platforms: from a digital platform (1950-1990) to networks (1995-2004), and, from the latter, to collaborative networks (2004-?).
Why [...]
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Posted in Nepôsts in English! on mai 4th, 2009
Hardly anything could be more against common sense than the recent dismissal of 4,000 Embraer employees.
Embraer is clearly part of the Brazil of knowledge, cutting-edge technology. Surely its employees have quite often heard the notion that “we need to share knowledge.”
But, when push comes to shove, when it hits rock bottom, the shareholder’s logic and [...]
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Posted in Nepôsts in English! on abr 24th, 2009
Is there any interest in following the evolution of the Sugar Loaf or Corcovado?
They are unmoving mountains, which evolve very slowly, and were formed millions of years ago.
There are no “mountainlogists”? Why?
There is no need for them.
A volcano is a horse of a different color.
And they kill people.
It’s logical to [...]
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Posted in Nepôsts in English! on abr 13th, 2009
This post in Portuguese?
Does it take much work to have a blog? – asks a friend
If you take it seriously, yes, quite a bit of work.
It’s a huge collection of links, texts, photos, and ideas to be stored.
You end up finding a missing accent here, a mistake there.
I’ve reread the most accessed [...]
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