February 2012
27 posts
Gigabit Internet for $80: the unlikely success of... →
Woah.
Overrated: Bully's R Rating Should Mean the End of... →
“This addresses the second issue -thinking that the problem is a lack of...”
– You Are Responsible for Getting Your Ideas to Spread « Innovation Leadership Network
Everything is a Remix Part 4 on Vimeo →
Kirby Ferguson’s “Everything is a Remix” is so important, and so well done. Part 4 really sews it up nicely.
“What should you do if you suspect a car has been following you?”
– What should you do if you suspect a car has been following you? - Quora
“Mandatory” meetings are a cop-out. Everyone in the meeting should be there...”
– Coding Horror: Meetings: Where Work Goes to Die
“The phone rang. It was Stanley with an afterthought. “Give him these...”
– Mike Kaplan: How Stanley Kubrick Shot His Own Newsweek Cover
“Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen,...”
– Walker Evans (via andyandyandys)
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Why is it that heros are usually people whose job is to do what they’re told?
“Why are people sad? That’s simple. They are the prisoners of their personal...”
– Paulo Coelho (via endorfins)
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“Stone defined email apnea as: “a temporary absence or suspension of breathing,...”
– Email Apnea - NYTimes.com
Pinterest / What is Pinterest? →
Oh, I see. It seems a bit like Svpply+Tumblr. (http://pinterest.com/about/)
Pinterest / Home →
Interesting! I wonder what the differentiators from Tumblr are?
January 2012
108 posts
iDoneThis blog: Silicon Valley's Productivity... →
idonethis:
The wonder of Silicon Valley has been its rich history of producing incredibly capital efficient companies operating at massive scale. No doubt part of that achievement lies in the capital efficiency of software engineering itself where technology gives incredible leverage to create and disrupt…
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“The Emory University neuroscientist Gregory Berns found that people who dissent...”
– The Power of Introverts — www.scientificamerican.com — Readability
“Stimulants generally have the same effects for all children and adults. They...”
– Of course Ritalin doesn’t improve learning abilities. But that’s OK, because schooling in the USA isn’t about learning anyway, it’s about enculturating compliance and uniformity.
Children’s A.D.D. Drugs Don’t Work Long-Term - NYTimes.com
Ideals Can Conflict →
By Robin Hanson, overcomingbias.com
The usual wisdom says we are most creative when working in groups that avoid criticism. This is wrong: His book … was published in 1948. … Osborn’s most celebrated idea was … the essential rules of a successful brainstorming sessi…
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New holy grail: a Markdown editor with change tracking and comments. Anybody know one?
“I kept hoping for one more question, or for someone to say, “Who do
you...”
– Bill Callahan
Letters of Note: I am a lousy copywriter →
Yelping with Cormac: Design Within Reach →
yelpingwithcormac:
Pacific Heights - San Francisco, CA
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Three stars.
They emerged from the crucible of adolescence rosyfaced and long of bone, inheritors of the hurtling world of their progenitors. Cocksure but for the onerous legacy of war and rapacious greed and…
“So the notion that creativity can be owned, and that any use of someone...”
– This is exactly the same approach that Monsanto uses to try to gain a stranglehold on the world’s food supply. Is there a word for greed amplified to this scale? Satanic, perhaps? Venal, at a minimum.
On pirates and piracy - O’Reilly Radar
“I smoke my friends right down to the filter.”
– Tom Waits
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“Hollywood appears to have peaked. If it were an ordinary industry (film cameras,...”
– Would that it were so, Paul. Would that it were so.
YCRFS 9: Kill Hollywood