This place is the best playground in the whole world. ITunesU has free download audio and video recordings of college courses from universities all over the states, and now from the UK and Australia. This palace of information is great because while going to school there are many courses, or subjects that sounded interesting but I couldn't take for various reasons. Now I can listen to lectures when I want to, not having to worry about any homework or papers and just enjoy the insights of learning a bit about a new subject.
So far I have downloaded courses on Hannibal, introductory physics (Physics for Future Presidents, is great), microeconomics, Heidegger, epidemiology, and individual lectures about marketing, biotechnology, current affairs, and speeches by the Dali Lama, Steve jobs, and Margaret Mead.
I believe that the broader the knowledge base a person has the better decisions that person will make in their specialization. If possible I would specialize in being a generalist. In fact I have thought that a really great jobs would be to just read and study lots of different things for half the day and spend the other half of the day helping specialists form odd connections that never would have been thought of be people in that specialization.
So thank you apple for a wonderful free opportunity to ingest more information than I ever could before.
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