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What it takes to be a leader…

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Today my wife and I watched on YouTube the presentation from Simon Sinek about leadership (see bellow).

I found it very well thought and wanted to share it as it resonate with a lot of my own convictions in this area.

This presentation will help one to discriminate between “boss” or “manager” and Leader.

Funny but one can be a boss without being a leader. This realization surprised me and I was finally able to understand those wired feeling I had in the past when dealing with some of my former bosses.

Thorium the energy source of the future

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Energy is crucial for us and our future. What sources of energy do we have?

Stars are the initiators of energy and precursors of life but they also stored caches of energy for us to use and evolve as intelligent beings.

Fusion of light elements seem to be the stuff reserved for the mighty Stars but here on Earth fission seem to be what the Stars cached for us to get and use.

As many others, I’ve been oblivious of the fact that there is a technology which was tried 50 years ago when the U235 reactors were developed and which should have been our to use by now.

Yet, it seem that our ignorance and political interests focused only on the moment, lead us on the wrong path 50 years ago by building the current water based reactors which are plagued by many issues.
Still, even in this cases nuclear is still the best way to go about our energy needs of the future when we account for all issues we find with all types of energy we now use.

I strongly think we have the duty to maximize the efficiency of all aspects our our lives and minimize the amount of energy we use for each activity we do, however we will need to do more activities in the future, a lot more and all of us must have access to the same abilities in order to step into the future which awaits us out there.

Thorium breeder (LFTR) reactors were simply caned years ago, I think it is time we start building them.

I’m a strong advocate for this technology. To see why, please visit the http://energyfromthorium.com web site or watch the presentation bellow.

Of course, I’m not advocating for blindly supporting the technology, please learn about it and support when you are ready to do so…

Canadian company on Thorium reactors http://www.thoriumpowercanada.com/

A Fractal Reality

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For some time scientists found more and more proof that the universe we live in seem to have a “Fractal nature”, but what is a fractal anyway?

From Wikipedia: “A fractal is a mathematical set that typically displays self-similar patterns”.

Wolfram Science: A fractal is an object or quantity that displays self-similarity, in a somewhat technical sense, on all scales.

If you look at a tree then you can see that its branches look like smaller versions of the tree itself. The new born have common characteristics with their parents like, they have same number of limbs similar shape etc…

Here is how Wolfram Science defines a fractal: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Fractal.html

And here is the Wikipedia definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal

And of course there is a Fractal Foundation: http://fractalfoundation.org/

One important characteristic of fractal structures is that they can be built by using very simple rules repeated again and again…

Even though one may think so, Fractals does not necessary imply infinities as the process of generation can be stopped at any level.

Bellow is an excellent example of what “pure mathematical fractals” may look like. The movie was generated by a computer (just pure calculations in a machine) by using a mathematical structure called the Mandelbrot Set after the name of the mathematician who studied it first.

Or this 3D model of the same type of mathematical structure:

This is the second pillar on my model of reality.
The first pillar is the Many dimensions of the Universe.
I hope that this model of the universe may allow for reconciliation between Science and other ways people now use to deal with the reality.

Nigeria’s hurt is everyones problem

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Its all over the news. More than three weeks ago in Nigeria around 300 girls were kidnapped from their school by people opposing women education. This may seem to be “out there” not in our vicinity so its just some news, it will pass.

The problem is this is not true, not any more, now we know and we have to do something about it. Question is what? Of course some people using some expensive gear will risk their lives to try to bring all those innocent souls back to their families. Then what? We all live happily… until next time. Because if we don’t do anything to understand the real reasons behind this event it is guaranteed that other of the same or equivalent events will happen again.

I believe everyone has its right to believe whatever they want, as much time as they don’t mess with the access to information and education of every single one of us, no matter where or who we are.

I hope all those souls will get back to their loved ones soon, but the work to disseminate knowledge, the type of knowledge which will set us free must start now.

Keep in mind that we produce a lot of information, but not all of it is knowledge and most of it will keep you chained to one narrow concept or another and that is not freedom.

“Freedom is not free!”

Info on the kidnapping

The technology and us

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“New and enhanced abilities (a.k.a technology) combined with low level of understanding of those abilities will always lead to abuse. However the universe (a.k.a Mother Nature) does not care, it selects its future, its called natural selection…. And,… natural selection did not end when Darwin defined it, it still happens…. So better try understand what you hold in your hands before is too late. I’m a strong promoter of technology but the need for “profit without limits” combined with ignorance can be lethal for our society.”

I’ve commented not long ago, on the link posted by one of my FaceBook friends. It was liked to the YouTube video called “Look Up”. An excellent clip of video poetry but partially misguided in my opinion.
I hope to guide people on computer technology and its real abilities with the information I will publicize in the future in this blog and http://timenet-systems.com

In mean time I’m blogging this video clip for future reference.

Jodorowsky’s Dune

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As a present to my birthday, my daughter Anda invited me to see this documentary about a movie which could have been bigger than StarWars, before StarWars, the “JODOROWSKY’S DUNE”.

The movie was played at the TIFF and bellow is the YouTube preview on it.

Very interesting and I could only think what Jodorowsky (IMDB) could have done those days with the CGI capabilities and power of KickStarter for crowd financing.

Is hard to tell what could have been, I’ve seen the one made by David Lynch and the Children of Dune sequel and they are good movies, maybe not great but good. Clearly there is a lot of potential in visualising Herbert’s saga.

Thank you Anda!