Clippings

The faintest ink is better than the best memory

Productive people keep better notes, we've learned, since notetaking allows us to continually improve our understanding of the world, for just as "successful students continue to improve their mastery of the concepts from previous chapters and courses as they move toward the more advanced material on the horizon; successful people regularly focus on the core purpose of their profession or life."

Or, as a Chinese proverb says, "The faintest ink is better than the best memory."

via Fast Company's appreciation of Marie Curie at Tumblr

I want to be the $2000 man

Fast Company reports on the winners of this year's Dyson Award. This is a pretty impressive device, offering a 20-degree improvement in range of motion. I'm puzzled that the target audience seems to be hospitals. I'd do the therapy if a device like this was available to me. Seems to me that the real benefit would come from using it in real-life situations, not just short therapy sessions. It's noteworthy that this device streams data to computers and smartphones, but the anticipated users seem to be only clinicians. I wish more data was made available to users too.