Thursday = Thor's day

Conflict resolution, finding common ground, agreeing differences that exist, but don't have to matter, and the observation that today we can invest all of 3 minutes to discover stuff, then decide whether we want to know more.

When I was 22 I moved country, and I knew nothing about where I was going. Encyclopedias told me very, very little, and after days, literally days, in the library, I still knew almost nothing.

Today I can spend 5 minutes on the 'net and know more in that time than I could've found in days of diligent, comprehensive, but above all boring research.

Read with the intent of learning - not all lessons are obvious, and some are worth more for having found them, rather than being given them.

Re: Thursday = Thor's day

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, May 07, 2010, 7:42 PM UTC

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Re: Thursday = Thor's day

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Post by huherto » Fri, May 07, 2010, 7:47 PM UTC

Interesting. Knowing a little bit of English/Spanish you can guess the origin of most of the days of the week.

* Sunday/Domingo - Sun/?

* Monday/Lunes - Moon/Luna

* Tuesday/Martes - ?/Mars

* Wednesday/Miercoles - ?/Mercurio

* Thursday/Jueves - Thor/Jupiter

* Friday/Viernes - ?/Venus

* Saturday/Sabado - Saturn/?

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Post by limist » Fri, May 07, 2010, 7:51 PM UTC

Reframing is just a fantastic psychological tool/technique, and is the logical follow-up to Einstein's maxim that "The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation." This example by Sivers is brilliant.

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Post by CitizenKane » Fri, May 07, 2010, 7:54 PM UTC

drats wrote: post #2

Hacker News?

FWIW, I submitted it because I found it intellecually engaging. I think there is a lesson here that's pertinent for hackers, being able to take a situation and look at in a unique way. Then taking that unique perspective and using it to your advantage.

But what I love about Derek's writing is that there always seems to be a lot of interesting nuggets of wisdom that they contain. I think there is a lot of interesting material here and that it could be taken a lot of different ways depending on the reader's perspective.

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Post by Gigamo » Fri, May 07, 2010, 7:55 PM UTC

huherto wrote: post #7

Interesting. Knowing a little bit of English/Spanish you can guess the origin of most of the days of the week. * Sunday/Domingo - Sun/? * Monday/Lunes - Moon/Luna * Tuesday/Martes - ?/Mars * Wednesday/Miercoles - ?/Mercurio * Thursday/Jueves - Thor/Jupiter * Friday/Viernes - ?/Venus * Saturday/Sabado - Saturn/?

The article actually mentions most of them. :)