Michele Pasin / Quotes

Career change: take conscious action

Recognise what you can and cannot control, and do things with purpose. I cannot change the world around me. I cannot change others. But I do have control over…

Lessons From My Career Change: Five Ways To Make Your Move Sustainable | Guardian Careers | Guardian Professional #things #thought #action #purpose #world

Career change: move forward not away

We often leave a job or situation because we are unhappy about something: an overbearing manager, irritating colleagues, ridiculous hours. When we make a…

Lessons From My Career Change: Five Ways To Make Your Move Sustainable | Guardian Careers | Guardian Professional #beliefs #thought #jobs #situation #managers

Form follows function and the Lamarckian fallacy

Another problem with Sullivan’s law is that the sentence “form follows function” indicates that the relationship between the two components is unidirectional…

The Functional Art: An Introduction To Information Graphics And Visualization #law #thought #world #problem

Lamartine on the future of books (1831)

The future of books in the 1830s. ‘Before this century shall end, journalism will be the whole press - the whole human thought. Thought will spread across the…

How Books Will Become Machines #book #thought #future-of-books

Notes like index cards, not marginalia

This is all well and good for certain types of notes, such as summaries of books that I read for exams. It’s kind of like scribbling marginalia in a book. But…

Taking Better Notes In Zotero – Profhacker - Blogs - The Chronicle Of Higher Education #book #thought #idea

Quantitative vs qualitative approaches in dh

This volume provides pathways of thought for refracting our study of the humanities through a new prism of digital media and technology, while simultaneously…

Understanding Digital Humanities (david M. Berry) #humanity #digital-humanities #digital-media #thought