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	<title>Matthew T Grant &#187; Thinking Out Loud</title>
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		<title>Atheism</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2010/08/09/atheism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 

God is dead. &#8211; Nietzsche 
Nietzsche is dead. &#8211; God
In America, and apparently some parts of the developing world, it can be very shocking when you tell people that you do not believe in God. Indeed, even among America&#8217;s educated classes, you&#8217;ll rarely hear an expression of outright atheism (though you will encounter a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Post Has No Value</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2010/07/09/this-post-has-no-value/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philosophy simply puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything. &#8211; Ludwig Wittgenstein
&#8220;Epistemology pays no bills,&#8221; Martin remarked drily. &#8211; Charles Stross, &#8220;The Singularity Sky&#8221;

When I wrote about the &#8220;database of intentions&#8221; and linked that concept to my own longstanding view of the web as the &#8220;database of human consciousness,&#8221; and thus the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Web of Intentions</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2010/06/09/the-web-of-intentions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Battelle recently pointed out that Google is compiling a Database of Intention (strictly speaking, he pointed this out back in 2003).
Said database is comprised of every search ever entered, every list of results every tendered, and every click-path thereafter taken. Referring to AdWords, AdSense, and Omniture, he additionally pointed out that an ecosystem had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Talk</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2010/04/17/lets-talk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve never been a big fan of the &#8220;reality is an illusion&#8221; perspective, though I certainly understand it.
If we equate reality with our perception of reality, for example, then we are naturally deluded, for that perception is a product of our sense organs, our neurological infrastructure, and, I&#8217;m told, our race, class, and/or gender.
If, on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s ALL About Fit</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2010/03/18/its-all-about-fit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back, I made a rap video called, &#8220;It&#8217;s All About Fit&#8221; (see below).
My point there was that, when hiring someone, organizational fit was the key ingredient to that person&#8217;s success in the role as well as the organization&#8217;s &#8220;success&#8221; in nurturing and retaining a valuable employee over the long haul.
&#8220;Fit schmit,&#8221; I hear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thought Ronin</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2010/01/26/thought-ronin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been a &#8220;thought ronin&#8221; for going on a year now.
In the same way that the lone gunslinger is a staple of the Western, ronin (&#8221;masterless samurai&#8221;) have been staple figures, and frequently protagonists, in samurai films from the very outset of the genre &#8211; an early epic of which was in fact entitled 47 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Similes That Make Me Smile</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2010/01/20/similes-that-make-me-smile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading two NYT articles today reminded me of how much fun with similes writers over there can have.
First, in &#8220;The Great Unalignment,&#8221; writer Matt Bai says that, in the aftermath of Scott Brown&#8217;s Senate victory here in Masschusetts, Democratic talk of &#8220;a great liberal realignment seems as retro as Friendster.&#8221;
While I don&#8217;t exactly consider Friendster [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Check Out the Levels</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2009/12/28/check-out-the-levels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Ithaca, my friend Art once told me that he hated it when people spoke of &#8220;levels&#8221; as in, &#8220;We&#8217;re seeing a whole other level of play on the court today.&#8221; (I had just told him that, having finished my dissertation, I felt that I had &#8220;moved to another level.&#8221;)
Years later, I&#8217;m in New Zealand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man against Nature, Nature against God</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2009/12/24/man-against-nature-nature-against-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conservative critic Ross Douthat recently took James Cameron and Hollywood to task for rampant pantheist sympathies writing that pantheism &#8220;represents a form of religion that even atheists can support.&#8221;
While I believe he is mistaken to equate, as he does, pantheism with &#8220;nature worship&#8221; &#8211; the latter being more akin to polytheism or animism and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Marketing Mainly Manipulation or Might It (also) Be Education?</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2009/12/21/is-marketing-mainly-manipulation-or-might-it-also-be-education/</link>
		<comments>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2009/12/21/is-marketing-mainly-manipulation-or-might-it-also-be-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last spring, while attending a lovely brunch, I got into an unexpectedly heated dispute with the host and one of the guests, professors at a local business college, about the Nazi philosopher, Martin Heidegger.
Having told me that they sometimes taught Heidegger&#8217;s essay, &#8220;The Question Concerning Technology,&#8221; to their students, I told them that Heidegger&#8217;s unrepentant [...]]]></description>
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