Reminder to Self: Read Rick Woldenberg

Posted by Valerie on January 19, 2009

“This abstract, spiritual use of the word ’safe’ is deeply distressing to me. If people believe safety is something abstract, as though it were a kind of window onto the soul and a measure of some sort of morality, then industrial efforts to produce safety will become completely diffuse and unfocused. Safety surveillance only works if it homes in on real, known, actual risks. If we scatter our resources over all sorts of imaginary, paranoid illusions of potential risks, there will little energy left for the real problems. We cannot afford this frivolous exercise. Please keep screaming!”

Read more at Rick Woldenberg’s Learning Resources blog.

Might as well take a look at their 80% off sale while you’re at it.

That is, if you dare….

(Those are great prices on Blokus, all three versions. I think the evidence is good that playing Blokus actually SHARPENS mental acuity.)

Living dangerously….