About knowledge management, open source in health and some other fuzzy things
An inventor is simply a person who doesn't take his education too seriously. You see, from the time a person is six years old until he graduates form college he has to take three or four examinations a year. If he flunks once, he is out. But an inventor is almost always failing. He tries and fails maybe a thousand times. It he succeeds once then he's in. These two things are diametrically opposite.
The man who sits on the edge of his bed, amid the rubble and dust, pipe in hand and legs crossed, listening to a record player is Mohammed Mohiedin Anis also known as Abu Omar.
The AFP photographer who captured this moment in Aleppo is Joseph Eid.