I was marveling at the vast amount of information available with Google and Wikipedia this week, when I began to consider what to do with the information. I thought that it really is just information ...
The Internet is a truly remarkable advancement in our ability to access information. Just about anything we could possibly want to know is now just a few keystrokes away. But , as with most ...
We assume many of you are familiar with the work of Clifford Stoll, author of both “The Cuckoo’s Egg” and “Silicon Snake Oil.” The latter, which was written 15 years ago, stated, “the Internet ...
The data-information-knowledge-wisdom model puts artificial intelligence in its proper place. As a Marine Corps intelligence officer in my previous life, my job was to help senior leaders answer the ...
Are you old enough to remember encyclopedias, which salespeople used to peddle from door to door? These included the encyclopedias Brittanica (its name alone sounded awfully smart); Americana; Funk & ...
Since my original post about wisdom vs. knowledge, I continue to discover that learning really is more than just gathering information. Learning is integrating that knowledge in some way to grow, ...
Since I woke up this morning, I’ve received 30 mobile news alerts, 25 email alerts, and another 17 emails from investment managers providing their unsolicited views of the financial world. My Twitter ...
For years I labored under the illusion that communicating knowledge about cannabis, or a wide variety of other drugs and alcohol, was the keystone for promoting recovery. I believed education was the ...
Dr. Gregory Stebbins is the Founder and Master Coach at PeopleSavvy. He is a member of the American Psychological Association. There are many variations of the word “hunch”: intuition, gut feeling and ...
In ninth grade, I had a wonderful, high-energy social studies teacher whose favorite exhortation was "wisdom and knowledge!" He'd usually punctuate it by thwacking his yardstick against a desk while ...