“Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity.
Don’t assign to stupidity what might be due to ignorance.
And try not to assume your opponent is the ignorant one, until you can show it isn’t you.”.

(Joao Miranda from Assume Stupidity Not Malice in Meatball Wiki)

“You want to communicate your ideas. You want to be heard, preferably understood, and most preferably agreed with.
It doesn’t work. No matter how you try, they just dont’t get it.
Practice saying only those things that the people around you can hear.”.

(Michael Hill in Only Say Things That Can Be Heard)

“I Used To Believe will remind you what it was like to be a child, fascinated and horrified by the world in equal parts. The following pages will reassure you that the things you used to believe weren’t so strange after all.”.
(Matthew Connolley)

“Used to say our father, who art in heaven, hello whats your name?.”

I Used To Believe. The childhood beliefs site.

“Chinese. Japanese. Korean. What’s the difference?
Some say it’s easy to see. Others think it’s difficult, may be even impossible. Who can really tell? That’s what we want to find out.
And if you’re wondering whether or not to take offense, remember: alllooksame is not a statement. It’s a question.”.

All look same? by Dyske Suematsu. “The difference is in the eye of the beholder.”.

“Kawaii style dominated Japanese popular culture in the 1980’s. Kawaii or cute essentially means childlike.

…Cute style began as an underground literary trend amongst young people who developed the habit of writing stylised childish letters to each other and to themselves.”.
(Sharon Kinsella, Cuties in Japan)

“…Put these tones – Formalism and Cuteness – together and you get the somewhat unexpected style I call Cute Formalism.
It’s unexpected because in the west it would be an eccentric, if not forbidden, combination of signifiers.

Formalism for us is intellectual, masculine, dry, adult, hard, macho, unsentimental, avant garde.
Cute on the other hand is silly, feminine, wet, childish, soft, effete, sentimental and kitsch.
What kind of chimera is this?”.
(Nick Currie, Cute formalism)

Sharon Kinsella “has been involved in research looking at emergent social trends linking youth, the media, subculture, corporate culture and new modes of governance, based on Japanese case studies with global application.”.

Nick Currie “also known as Momus, is a songwriter, a blogger and a journalist for Wired.”.

“Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations.”.

A book written by James Surowiecki.

“I think the most important lesson is not to rely on the wisdom of one or two experts or leaders when making difficult decisions. That doesn’t mean that expertise is irrelevant, or that we don’t need smart people. It just means that together all of us know more than any one of us does.”.

Humanmetrics provides a Jung-Myers-Briggs personality classification test.

I did it.

Well, I am supposed to be an ISTP (Introverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving ) as described from Heiss and Butt in Typelogic .

I don’t know if I must be happy or not…

“Change only happens when the person wants to change.
You can make suggestions, or bring things to their attention, but people only make changes when they choose to.
It is never in your control.”.

“…The worst work experiences I’ve had forced me to recognize a very important thing: work does not have to define my life.
Work can be at the center of everything if you choose, but there are many other ways to live happy, fulfilling, meaningful lives.”.

(Scott Berkun)

See also: Right for the wrong reasons.