Getting Savvy With Social Media

By
Matt Britland

Motivation for Technophobes

"No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you're still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying."

~TONY ROBBINS

How a School Can Maximize Its Potential

This Presentation by Mitt Britland shows how technology if implemented in a school can make education more interesting

Connecting Dots

R. Milian

The commencement speech that Steve Jobs gave at Stanford University in 2005 has been discussed many times online and in print media. Part of its allure is the fact that Jobs, in my opinion, does not present himself in the speech like an extraordinary individual. The most  interesting part of the speech is his ability to understand how the decisions he made in the past propelled him to accomplish many of his incredible achievements at Apple later in his life. For instance Jobs says,

“Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”

It is this idea of connecting dots that I want to focus on as regards to how we make decisions in life. There is nothing thought- provoking about the idea of understanding how to connect the dots in our life. Yet time and time again we fail to see what came before us and end up making foolish decisions. We need time to slow down to reflect on those dot connections. What Jobs mentioned in his speech about connecting the  dots reminds me of the poet William Stafford and his poem " The Way It Is".  It is a very simple poem yet so powerful. It tells us to slow down, pause and be very attentive to make life or dot connections. He uses in his poem the metaphor of a thread to accomplish this idea.