Comments on: Berkman at 10 http://citmedia.org/blog/2008/05/15/berkman-at-10/ Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:52:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Jon Garfunkel http://citmedia.org/blog/2008/05/15/berkman-at-10/#comment-153323 Jon Garfunkel Fri, 16 May 2008 04:37:47 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/?p=1358#comment-153323 In place of my taking the #86 bus to the conference, I've been contributing to the new <a href="http://publius.cc/" rel="nofollow">Publius site</a>, though only in the comments. Clay Shirky made this bright point: <blockquote> William James, the American philosopher, maintained that thinking is for doing, which to say that our brains don’t exist for purposes of abstract cogitation, they exist to help us decide what to do next. </blockquote> Or, as the collective wisdom of the Internet attributes Aesop: "After all is said and done, more is said than done." In place of my taking the #86 bus to the conference, I’ve been contributing to the new Publius site, though only in the comments.

Clay Shirky made this bright point:

William James, the American philosopher, maintained that thinking is for doing, which to say that our brains don’t exist for purposes of abstract cogitation, they exist to help us decide what to do next.

Or, as the collective wisdom of the Internet attributes Aesop: “After all is said and done, more is said than done.”

]]> By: Jon Garfunkel http://citmedia.org/blog/2008/05/15/berkman-at-10/#comment-153321 Jon Garfunkel Fri, 16 May 2008 04:31:32 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/?p=1358#comment-153321 Dan-- sorry I'm missing out. between the conference the other week and one next week, I couldn't squeeze this in. I didn't even crash a FFT dinner (as I've been known to do in the past.) Dan– sorry I’m missing out. between the conference the other week and one next week, I couldn’t squeeze this in. I didn’t even crash a FFT dinner (as I’ve been known to do in the past.)

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