Image via Wikipedia Here are some wonderful sentiments about the nature of civilization in a world still populated in places with barbarians As Kipling said in his poem about While it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, fall be’ind,” But it’s “Please to walk in front, sir,” when there’s trouble in the wind, There’s trouble […]
Category: Creativity
Reflective learning in the markets
daily reports attached and some case studies that continue our development of the WMB entry technique (Williams%R, MACD-H, Breakout on candles) (Will Make Bank) Silver rewarded us by holding overnight on a large gap up, and we squeezed another 4-6R out of it, depending on how exits were managed. We saw the relative strength in the […]
Trust the good guys
Image via Wikipedia I think the author is overreacting, Google only wants what’s best for you When Google (and Apple for that matter) tell you that they are not evil, what more evidence do you need? Related articles Is Google Trying To “Sort” Its Users? (lockergnome.com) Apple, Microsoft, Google Attacked For Evil Plugins (apple.slashdot.org) Is […]
Reflecting on a strategic inflection point at CGSC in Army education
Image via Wikipedia Each year, more than 1500 Majors from the United States Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines, along with more than 100 specially selected international officers of equivalent rank, are assigned to attend the United States Army Command & General Staff College (CGSC) at Fort Leavenworth Kansas. In 2010, the vast majority of […]
The opportunity cost of war
Image via Wikipedia This is the economic opportunity cost of fighting speculative wars , not to mention the moral and political issues that should take an even higher precedence in our conciousness. Buying a tank is the worst possible use of a dollar, economically speaking, except perhaps for using it as collateral to leverage up […]
More on the science of learning, social constructionism, language and teaching
Image via Wikipedia http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2776823/ this is really powerful for the teachers out there among us a powerful summary of links to education and learning research that supports so much of the social-constructionist worldview, as well as the pragmatist, but with a solid foundation in objectivism, and which therefore supports advocacy for access to technologies for everyone […]
Building a master Powerpoint file (or image dB) to support wide ranging discussions
Image via Wikipedia a terrific discussion here on the idea of having a 2500 slide Powerpoint master file my reflection: I use this exact technique when teaching Army Change Management and Army Sustainment i have over 500 slides that illustrate certain points, many of which are cleaned up versions of story-boarding explanations i have used to […]
Estimating reasonable profit targets for swing trades
breathing = trading
ask yourself: “what is the crowd waiting for?” “What do they need to see?” What would confirm in their mind that the trade is NOW?!” learn to see it before it happens create separation between you and the crowd be on the edge of them, so you can sense the mood, but don’t be inside […]
No more Easter egg hunts: promoting search and discovery in the classroom
Image via Wikipedia Think about how we assign readings and discussion questions. Let me exaggerate (am I?) and say that we: …engineer the amount of reading based on words per minute, and convert that into pages, and then assign “x” number of pages. We select readings that “surround” the answer we want the students to […]