Graduation-Cremation

It’s an inspirational story. Got her BA the day before her 100th birthday, then died.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100127/ap_on_re_us/us_centenarian_degree

She encouraged people to read, saying that it opens doors to many things in life.

I hope I-tablet (along with Kindle and Reader) will help speed things along:

reading on train, plane and automobile.

Obscure authors will get the recognition they deserve.

Our journey is a shared journey of creatures who empathize with one another,

seeing the world as others would.

I just viewed a slide show promoting “work and travel for a summer in the US” targeting Vietnamese students.

It will take some convincing for these youngsters to drop everything, and enter a world which is very demanding:

speed of execution, quality of workmanship, self-promoting, communication-overload and low-paid blue-collar entry-level jobs (probationary and in this case, seasonal).

But it is a start. Like anything else, there is the rise and fall even for dominant players (Toyota and J&J recall of products, Tiger and Conan, SAAB and McNealy).

I encourage young minds to exploit their full potential and through risk-taking, learn about themselves. Take the computer as an analogy:

I have yet learned how to fully exploit (and Google Pack will give me more apps) existing storage capacity of my desktop.

Same with our brain power (partly exploited by time of death).

And the woman in the story is just another inspiring story of what a person, a century-old woman, can do.

Learning to learn.

Then died an educated person.

Reading someone’s  writing is like being invited into his/her inner world.

Unlike watching a play or movie, reading gives you more control, because, like the Web, it gives back the control

to the click of the mouse (or touch of the key pad).

Go I-Pad. We have come a long way since axes, arrows, anti-bodies. Let’s turn swords into social networks, eliminating into collaborating with the competition. The world will be better off with non-zero sum arrangement. When you can see from others’ point of view, it’s the beginning of collaboration. Our heroine woman, God bless her soul, certainly promoted that. And her being featured on Yahoo News etc… goes on to testify that her learning has certainly become our lesson.