October 2011 - Knowledge is Necessity

In Honor of Steve Jobs

Here's to the crazy ones ... Steve Jobs: 1955-2011 Read More...

Published Wed, Oct 05 2011 10:16 AM by Knowledge Is Necessity

Rerun: Smart Meds Strategies - No, This Is Not An Oxymoron

From Feb this year ... Following is a chopped version of a new article on mcmanweb. The article, in turn, is based on three or four posts published here over 2009 ... During the first months of 2009, I ran three successive reader polls on my blog, Knowledge...

Published Sun, Oct 23 2011 3:16 PM by Knowledge Is Necessity

Filed under: John McManamy, smart meds

Secrets of the Universal Sisterhood Revealed: Part One - What Goes on in Women’s Rooms

I feel like Indiana Jones who has just discovered the Lost Ark, only this secret is far more significant and way more dangerous. The last person who attempted to reveal it “disappeared.” I won’t disclose how I came across this information. Let’s just...

Published Mon, Oct 31 2011 9:29 AM by Knowledge Is Necessity

Filed under: John McManamy, relationships, women's room

Are We Meant to be Happy? No. Are We Meant to Have a Life of Meaning? Funny You Should Ask ...

Very quick piece. Last night, I gave a talk at NAMI San Diego. I had no problem picking a topic, as we would be holding our annual Inspirational Awards Dinner the next evening (tonight). We are honoring six local heroes, so I focused on connecting the...

Published Fri, Oct 07 2011 5:21 AM by Knowledge Is Necessity

Filed under: John McManamy, meaning, happiness

Three Pop Tunes Cultural Masterpieces

Great pop tunes truly speak to our innermost feelings and experiences, but we are hardly expecting a three-minute ditty to compete with Finnegan’s Wake. Then again - once in a blue moon - a song comes out of nowhere, totally unique, inviting comparisons...

Published Wed, Oct 26 2011 7:35 AM by Knowledge Is Necessity

Filed under: John McManamy, Neil Young, After the Gold Rush, Eleanor Rigby, Beatles, Ode to Billy Joe, Bobby Gentry

A Mental Health Patients' Bill of Rights

Smitty wrote: “What does it take to be a great or even good psychiatrist? What are our criteria as patients? What are the criteria that psychiatrists value to be good, even great?" Kathy added: “I would really value an exploration of Smitty’s questions...

Published Tue, Oct 25 2011 7:06 AM by Knowledge Is Necessity

Filed under: John McManamy, mental health patients' bill of rights

Columbus Day Reflections

Happy “There Goes the Neighborhood Day.” Before Christopher Columbus crashed the party on this day 519 years ago, the people who really discovered America were doing just fine. This comes out loud and clear in two books: Jack Weatherford’s 1989 “Indian...

Published Wed, Oct 12 2011 5:14 AM by Knowledge Is Necessity

Filed under: John McManamy, Charles Mann, Jack Weatherford, Columbus Day, American Indian

Occupy the World - I WIll Bring My Drum

“Several people pounded on drums.” - From a Sunday LA Times article, “LA marchers chant ‘We are the 99%’”, buried on page A37. I attended my first protest in the spring of 1969. I was just starting to grow my hair long. On a chill fall night several months...

Published Tue, Oct 18 2011 7:05 AM by Knowledge Is Necessity

Filed under: John McManamy, Occupy Wall Street, Ocupy LA, drumming

Steve Jobs - Making Connections and Creativity

“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to...

Published Thu, Oct 06 2011 3:46 AM by Knowledge Is Necessity

Filed under: John McManamy, Steve Jobs, creativity