When you realize the sad, beautiful fact about our inability to absorb even a fraction of the ever increasing corpus of wisdom in our world, and when you hear google’s Eric Schmidt talking about the incredible rate at which data is produced, you’re left wondering how will you ever learn the gist of everything around you.

With the Wisbit web app, you need wonder no more. This application lets you browse the best passages (or wisbits, for wisdom-tidbits) of several books in the order they are deemed important by the crowds. You can have fun “mashing” wisbits to score the passages against one another and learn something new along the way, or jump right into reading wisbits based on their ranking.

Not too long ago, I purchased a tablet PC to bring one of my ideas to fruition (among other reasons). The idea was to offer tutoring services online whereby the tutee would be able to view my screen and see my writings (on the tablet PC). This makes the entire process so much more convenient for both the tutor (yours truly) and the tutee, as no one has to move to meet the other.

This idea is of course not new. There are a few services online offering just that, but it seems that they only hire post-grads. So I decided to start my own personal service relying only on windows remote assistance and a voice chat client.

My first client (and remains to this day a most faithful client) is my brother who is in college.

Best of all, the service is free (where available, i.e. when I have the time)!

I’m planning to go on a retreat this Winter (hopefully in December 2010). It promises to be a time filled with learning and growth, and what’s more, you’ll be able to follow my developments and learn along.