Category Archives: philosophic-discourse

Philosophic Discourse

Navigare necesse est

Posted on January 2, 2007 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Piscitelli (Filosofitis) me recuerda, en este inicio de año, lo esencial que es el viajar. Dice: “El adagio latino nos recorre con su precisión y contundencia. “Vivere non necesse, navigare necesse est“. Si no viajamos nos morimos, de aburrimiento, de … Continue reading →

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Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish!

Posted on December 29, 2006 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Recently, Repubblica.it reported Steve Jobs’ Stanford Commencement Speech of last year, with the title Siate curiosi siate folli. It’s a slight variation from the original English “Stay hungry, stay foolish“, but in a way, curiosity is a state of hunger, … Continue reading →

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Moralista

Posted on November 8, 2006 by Antonio Vantaggiato

I may well be a moralist. Podría ser yo un moralista. Pero la noticia de que una persona (que se llame Saddam Hussein no tiene muche importancia) ha sido condenado a la horca, me da vergüenza. De ser parte de … Continue reading →

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On Bullshit

Posted on September 19, 2006 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Hace poco, Mario Nuñez, en su blog DigiZen, escribió un artículo muy lindo sobre una de las figuras del mundo de la educación que yo más aprecio: Neil Postman. Mario ofrece muchos recursos sobre Postman y sus ideas. Fundamental es … Continue reading →

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Presentations

Posted on August 25, 2006 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Some info on presentations, Web style. First, best-practices. This article by Garr Reynolds (on his blog Presentation Zen): The Lessig Method, talks about the so-called Lessig method of presentation. In short, Professor Lessig simply uses a few words (sometimes just … Continue reading →

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