Like severe burn victims, we are alive but disfigured, moving forward but with a slight limp, lifting our eyes up to the sun but with dark pools of wisdom and sadness adding shadow to our gazes, a deepness reaching back a century to 1914, to those dead millions, to a time of beginnings and endings, endings and beginnings on a global scale.
It all depends on whether you'd rather head home with the image of a fearsome Arab queen forging paradise out of the desert, or of an African queen, quietly bathing in some limpid and moss-filled pool, languidly dreaming of wisdom and a far-off king.
Pool the wisdom of the masses and choose one that both saves money and create fun.
My well seasoned and experienced platoon sergeant grabbed me by my lapels and dragged me around to the side of the motor pool to provide me words of wisdom I will never forget.
Other ways of expressing a similar core idea is to speak of the power of information pooling, or "The Wisdom of Crowds" (Surowiecki 2004).
According to online prediction markets, which pool conventional wisdom about the probability of future events, voters do care.
"It's still a pretty evangelical business," says Leslie Fine of CrowdCast, one of the firms that provide trading platforms for companies keen to pool the collective wisdom of their employees.Prediction markets work by giving people virtual trading accounts that allow them to buy and sell "shares" that correspond to a particular outcome.
THE pool at the Paramount will be graced with a 7-foot-high statue of Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom, that he salvaged from his defunct marble-and-mirrored supper club, the Carlyle.
Research by Yum et al. shows that by observing others' decisions, lenders are able to predict the private information of other lenders, pool wisdom, and improve their decision-making skills (Yum et al. 2012).
"Seven Pillars of Wisdom".
