No idea why I’m so tired tonight but I am.

No idea of why neither Xmarks nor Google Chrome Sync are not syncing my bookmarks between home and office.

One thing I do want to mention is that the Flipboard iPad application is trans-formative.   I am using this every day.  A large number of the people I follow on Twitter are people I know or have met in real life.  So I’m willing to put up with the “I just had a sandwich” and “I hate my boss” tweets; I breeze past them without even thinking about it.

But seeing this stuff blown up large and gorgeously formatted on the iPad via Flipboard, the triviality of it screams out at me.  So I’m dropping quite a few of the people I’ve been following there and going after people I don’t necessarily know but who are providing content that’s actually useful or at least meaningful to me.   I’ve been “following” lists (something I hadn’t really done up till now), adding columns in Tweetdeck for those lists, browsing through them, and when someone Tweets something that catches my eye and that informs or entertains me, I follow that person.

The result is that every day, Flipboard is giving me more great content than the day before.  Couple of lists to recommend offhand – Scoble’s Most Influential In Tech and Kitson’s Thought Leaders.  Please feel free to recommend some great lists to me!

One thing I came across today via a Tweet is an 11 minute video on Youtube of John Cleese addressing the World Creativity Forum in Belgium.  No idea when this took place, the video was uploaded March of last year.  A lot of it is simple basic stuff that works for him, and therefore should work for at least some others at well.  I especially love the last two minutes of the video, where he touches on many of the same issues that I quoted Errol Morris on in this post – in this case people who have absolutely no idea of what they’re doing and also have absolutely no idea that they have absolutely no idea they don’t know what they’re doing.  It sounds very Pythonian and yet it’s so damned true.  (The title of this blog post comes from one of the concepts Cleese discusses in the video.)

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