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Adjusting Your Information Flow

by Bruce Keener // September 22, 2015 // No Comments

Are you fed up with the amount of information that flows your way, particularly all the stuff from the online world? Me, too, and I have been fed up with it for some time. An information scientist recently noted that... Continue reading →

Is Technology Hurting Us? You Can Win the Battle if You Try

by Bruce Keener // September 4, 2015 // No Comments

You multitask, don’t you? A typical example of it is reading email and/or Twitter or RSS feeds while “listening” to a phone call or “participating” in a meeting. We do it for at least a couple of reasons: We think... Continue reading →

Learn from Steve Jobs via John Sculley

by Bruce Keener // August 9, 2015 // No Comments

Whether you like Steve Jobs or not, you do yourself a disservice if you are not open to learning from him. He took a company that was on the verge of going under, Apple, and catapulted it to overtake Microsoft... Continue reading →

Reminder About Entrenched Thinking

by Bruce Keener // August 3, 2015 // No Comments

Science is the best tool we have for discovery and learning, because it encourages us to modify our theories when they don’t prove out. As with any human endeavor, though, science is imperfect. Lee Smolin gives a great example of... Continue reading →

Brilliant Examples of Thinking Outside the Box

by Bruce Keener // June 16, 2015 // No Comments

Einstein once said that Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge. He then went about proving it by completely re-imagining the concepts of space, time, gravity, matter, and energy. Of course, Einstein had a superior working knowledge of advanced mathematics and... Continue reading →

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Welcome to Keener Living. My name is Bruce Keener. I established this blog in March 2010, a few months after retiring at the age of 57. My reason for having this blog is to share what I’ve learned over the years (and what I continue to learn). I also enjoy hearing and learning from you.