Thoughts Per Minute

A great op-ed by Thomas Friedman this past weekend:America’s Real Dream Team. He discussed how inspired he was by the young minds at the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search awards dinner. Besides the innovative projects like a software to improve space navigation (by a high school student!), most important and telling was the roll call of American student names. All sounded Asian-American. I agree with Friedman that supporting immigration will help bring parents over that will be very supportive of their children in the sciences and thus bring to the US the greatest import we could ever embrace and nurture: ideas. Young educated minds are the ones with so much promise to think fresh and come up with new ideas and solutions to problems. By embracing immigration and providing solid education for our youth, we can flourish as a society and a country. Now that healthcare reform is passing through our governemnt, let’s encourage our government to not forget to focus on these important issues.

my tpm,

daniel

From the New York Times’s Bits Blog: A Big-Picture Look at Google, Microsoft, Apple and Yahoo. Great visual chart comparing all these companies services. What is so striking is how all these companies are leveraged across so many of the same areas. Also interesting that I made this post using WordPress’s PressThis bookmarklet. Wow, it makes it  super easy to post clipings – text, images, even video – from the web! However, I got to hold back and respect copyright so navigate to NYT to see the great chart.

my TPM,

Daniel

This is my inaugural post for my blog, Thoughts per Minute! (aka TPM)

We people sure do a lot of thinking but it’s even better to share some of these interesting ideas, findings, notions, current events, etc… with other people. It’s the dialogue; the conversation; the communication of ideas which is most interesting and appealing to me. I hope to share  thoughts and findings with this blog that you find worthy enough to read over and share with others, may it be with some fancy web 2.0 tool or the tried and truest form of communication: a physical conversation.

With that, here is some interesting research on human thinking and thought processing:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=149262

my TPM,

daniel