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Gitten’s index principal:

If a project is not creating 70% success in its outcomes, it is better to start a new project.
via Facebook 2020-07-13T14:11:50.000Z

When it comes to colonization of Arabs, we also had Field Arabs and House Arabs … to borrow from Malcom X, and they still exist today.
via Facebook 2020-07-12T15:55:29.000Z

“When you switch your brain to a new “thread,” a whole complicated mess of neural activity begins to activate the proper sub-networks and suppress others. This takes time. When you then rapidly switch to another “thread,” that work doesn’t clear instantaneously like electrons emptying from a circuit, but instead lingers, causing conflict with the new task.

To make matters worse, the idle “threads” don’t sit passively in memory, waiting quietly to be summoned by your neural processor, they’re instead an active presence, generating middle-of-the-night anxiety, and pulling at your attention. To paraphrase David Allen, the more commitments lurking in your mind, the more physic toll they exert.

This is all to say that the closer I look at the evidence regarding how our brains function, the more I’m convinced that we’re designed to be single-threaded, working on things one at a time, waiting to reach a natural stopping point before moving on to the next.”

Cal Newport
via Facebook 2020-07-11T20:55:43.000Z

Instead of talking about reopening schools, we should be transforming our education and work into mostly virtual space. There are tremendous great possibilities with such a change and a huge positive effect on environment and urban planning.

It is 2020, we are not going back to pre-2020 again. Give it up and think how you are going to build a great new future.
via Facebook 2020-07-11T17:27:21.000Z

Patience is an anti-value in technology.
via Facebook 2020-07-11T00:18:10.000Z

“They were not, with few exceptions, readers — never had been; that they had always occupied themselves with music, TV, and videos; they had difficulty slowing down enough to concentrate on prose of any density.”

Literary critic Sven Birkerts tells a story about his experience teaching an undergraduate course on short stories in 1994.

He tried to solicit opinions on the story he’d selected, but came up short. “My students could barely muster the energy for a thumbs-up or -down,” he writes. “It was as though some pneumatic pump had sucked out the last dregs of their spirits.”

That was 1994. Imagine 2020.

“For in fact, our entire collective subjective history — the soul of our societal body, is encoded in print. Is encoded, and has for countless generations been passed along by way of the word, mainly through books.”

#reading
via Facebook 2020-06-27T13:16:39.000Z

Be a builder not a destroyer.
via Facebook 2020-06-26T00:15:37.000Z

يقُسّم الوطن العربي و الدولة العربية الضائعة الى خمسة اقسام:

١. قسم محتل من قبل الاستعمار مباشرةً:

فلسطين

٢. قسم محتل من جهة محلية ممثلة او حليفة للاستعمار:

الكويت
قطر
البحرين
الامارات
سلطنة عمان
السعودية
الاردن
العراق
المغرب
لبنان

٣. قسم انقلب على الحكومة الاستعمارية و شكل سلطة فاشية قمعية:

سوريا
مصر
السودان
الجزائر
موريتانيا
الصومال
جيبوتي

٤. قسم يعيش معركة تقسيم ومحاولة استعمار جديدة:

اليمن
ليبيا
الصحراء العربية

٥. قسم يعيش الخطوات الأولى لمحاولته الديموقراطية:
تونس

لا يمكن للعالم العربي من الخروج من ازمته حتى يخرج من الاستعمار و مخلفاته و يتخلص من الفاشية.
via Facebook 2020-06-16T23:18:44.000Z