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Author: Rick Thues

Batteries

December 5, 2022 Uncategorized 3 Comments
Episode #723 December 10, 2022 Since man learned to control fire, civilization has prospered from the ready availability of energy. Energy is essential for survival and arguably for peace on Earth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQetemT1sWc In the Star Trek galaxy vast numbers of civilizations coexist peacefully. This is in no small part due to dilithium crystals. It is a power source that can drive warp speed space ships, transport people from one location to another and produce goods and food out of thin air in a replicator. This source of unlimited energy eliminates competition for resources and allows people to focus on peace....
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Slow is Fast

November 28, 2022 Uncategorized 3 Comments
Episode #722 December 3, 2022 “Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.” Focus on the moment slows Time.  Slowing of Time projects the Mind into the Future where you arrive ahead of schedule.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBQxG0Z72qM “Slow down, you move too fast You got to make the morning last Just kicking down the cobblestones Looking for fun and feeling groovy Ba da-da da-da da-da, feeling groovy Hello lamppost, what'cha knowing I've come to watch your flowers growin' Ain't you got no rhymes for me? Doo-ait-n-doo-doo, feeling groovy Ba da-da da-da da-da, feeling groovy I got no deeds to do, no promises to...
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Marketing

November 21, 2022 Uncategorized 2 Comments
Episode #721 November 26, 2022 The most effective marketing is word of mouth.   Advertising delivers the message. Amazon algorithms bring attention to the masses. But word of mouth convinces. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGWtMl49-jU To all my readers who have bought “Technically Human” and/or “Skydivers Know Why Birds Sing,” thank you. It is the highest compliment you could have given to me. In the 14 years I have been writing this bLog I have never advertised. With the publication of my books, I broke that rule. I now advertise my two books at the end of each episode. The bLog has always been...
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The Road Not Taken

November 18, 2022 Uncategorized 3 Comments
Episode #720 November 19, 2022 In Frank Herbert’s Dune, the Guild Navigators were prescient. They could see all the possible routes through space. They guided their space ships on a route that did not end in disaster, such as crashing into a star. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D37POA11KY Choice is a skill that we all exercise every moment of our lives. Each action we take is based on a variety of choices. The course we choose is the one which most mitigates our risks while still achieving our goal. When walking on an uneven path our foot placements are those which are likely not...
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Skydivers Know Why Birds Sing

November 6, 2022 Uncategorized 2 Comments
Episode #719 November 12, 2022 35 years in the making and 3 years in the writing,  “Skydivers Know Why Birds Sing” is available in paperback and Kindle e-book.     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwJGN-T4kaM Many of you know that my wife and are lifelong skydivers. People are always asking about the why and how of jumping out of an airplane. Those stories are in this book. Rick and Paula have been on a skydiving adventure for 35 years. They each have made more than 5000 jumps.  They entered the sport during its transition from a thing done by risk taking dare devils to...
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Form Follows Function

November 2, 2022 Uncategorized 2 Comments
Episode #718 November 5, 2022   The American architect Louis Henry Sullivan coined the phrase “form ever follows function.”    “It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic, of all things physical and metaphysical, of all things human, and all things super-human, of all true manifestations of the head, of the heart, of the soul, that the life is recognizable in its expression, that form ever follows function. This is the law. “ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrSmvjGV-ls This law has been a guiding tenet of modern architects. Yet designers are human. My observations have revealed many designs which put art,...
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