We live in an extended mind beyond our immediate senses. Our world has expanded into an ever shrinking world. Tools are helpful for forging a mind and life in this modern world. Here are some useful sites.
1. Khan Academy. I'm big on autodidaction. I feel that study should be lifelong and beyond the boundaries of degree requirements and job prerequisites. Education should be about building a person, not just getting a job.
2. Quora. You thought your mom and dad had all the answers? Nope, but what if they did? Enter Quora. Ask anything!
3. Spreeder. I'm a firm believer that words should be consumed like a fine food. I often read at the narrative pace of David Attenborough or Morgan Freeman, but there is sometimes a need for hogging down information like a ravenous beast devours a fresh kill. In this case Spreeder teaches how to read with speed and efficiency.
4. Information is Beautiful. For the visually minded it can be important to season bland food with some visual spices. This site offers information in the form of beauty, making it easier to digest.
5. Marc and Angel Hack Life. Hack hack hack away, gently and softly. Learn ways to take the path of least resistance and enjoy the scenic route.
6. How Stuff Works. Know how it works and how it can work for you!
7. OneLook. A dictionary search that becomes an online superdictionary.
8. The World Factbook. Information about anything you need to know. I'm obsessed with knowing whatever enters my senses. Way back in the day as a kid I had to walk two miles up hill in the snow to get to the library to look up things I was curious about. Now it is at our fingertips and equals 1,000,000X the information of an old school local library. The CIA will be watching, so make sure it's all innocent stuff.
9. Topsy. Find out what is trending or being discussed in your subject of curiosity.
10. Skype. We should have had video phones by the year 1999. Now that we do have them they are severely underused. People would rather pay for a phone than use a free video phone. Where's the
logic?
11. wikiHow. Expert Village. YouTube. It used to be that we had to find a teacher to teach us something. Now we can find teachers for anything. We can now be an apprentice to thing we could never have learned before.
12. The obvious. Social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn for keeping in contact with friends and connections. This makes life simpler by gathering everyone in one place and keeping everyone informed about what you are doing and your interests, as well as keeping up with the interests and doings of friends. Many people live far away. Social media brings them home. Hootsuite is a dashboard for managing them and scheduling tweets and posts.
13. Goodreads. It should be called "Greatreads". Everyone should read more. You can find the right books here.
14. wikiQuotes. Great quotes to inspire and induce good thoughts.
Laren Grey Umphlett is a meditation enthusiast, connoisseur of anything interesting and the artistic process, extreme fitness trainer, and author of "The Power of Perception"
website: www.larengreyumphlett.com
blog: www.larengreyumphlett.blogspot.com
twitter: www.twitter.com/LarenUmphlett
1. Khan Academy. I'm big on autodidaction. I feel that study should be lifelong and beyond the boundaries of degree requirements and job prerequisites. Education should be about building a person, not just getting a job.
2. Quora. You thought your mom and dad had all the answers? Nope, but what if they did? Enter Quora. Ask anything!
3. Spreeder. I'm a firm believer that words should be consumed like a fine food. I often read at the narrative pace of David Attenborough or Morgan Freeman, but there is sometimes a need for hogging down information like a ravenous beast devours a fresh kill. In this case Spreeder teaches how to read with speed and efficiency.
4. Information is Beautiful. For the visually minded it can be important to season bland food with some visual spices. This site offers information in the form of beauty, making it easier to digest.
5. Marc and Angel Hack Life. Hack hack hack away, gently and softly. Learn ways to take the path of least resistance and enjoy the scenic route.
6. How Stuff Works. Know how it works and how it can work for you!
7. OneLook. A dictionary search that becomes an online superdictionary.
8. The World Factbook. Information about anything you need to know. I'm obsessed with knowing whatever enters my senses. Way back in the day as a kid I had to walk two miles up hill in the snow to get to the library to look up things I was curious about. Now it is at our fingertips and equals 1,000,000X the information of an old school local library. The CIA will be watching, so make sure it's all innocent stuff.
9. Topsy. Find out what is trending or being discussed in your subject of curiosity.
10. Skype. We should have had video phones by the year 1999. Now that we do have them they are severely underused. People would rather pay for a phone than use a free video phone. Where's the
logic?
11. wikiHow. Expert Village. YouTube. It used to be that we had to find a teacher to teach us something. Now we can find teachers for anything. We can now be an apprentice to thing we could never have learned before.
12. The obvious. Social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn for keeping in contact with friends and connections. This makes life simpler by gathering everyone in one place and keeping everyone informed about what you are doing and your interests, as well as keeping up with the interests and doings of friends. Many people live far away. Social media brings them home. Hootsuite is a dashboard for managing them and scheduling tweets and posts.
13. Goodreads. It should be called "Greatreads". Everyone should read more. You can find the right books here.
14. wikiQuotes. Great quotes to inspire and induce good thoughts.
Laren Grey Umphlett is a meditation enthusiast, connoisseur of anything interesting and the artistic process, extreme fitness trainer, and author of "The Power of Perception"
website: www.larengreyumphlett.com
blog: www.larengreyumphlett.blogspot.com
twitter: www.twitter.com/LarenUmphlett
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