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Martin Cortez is a Chicago-based software engineer.

He is married, has two dogs, and became a father in July to a daughter named Penelope.

There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat.

That’s crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions.

“Steve Jobs”, by Walter Isaacson
You must be responsible for collecting all your open loops, applying a front-end thought process to each of them, and managing the results with organization, review, and action
Getting Things Done”, David Allen

Shake n bake (Taken with instagram)

As technological evolution brings larger and larger swaths of people within shouting distance, they either muster the tolerance and mutual respect to do business with one another or fail to flourish
“The Evolution of God”, Robert Wright
Criticism allows people to dig below the surface of the imagination and come up with collective ideas that aren’t predictable
“Groupthink: The brainstorming myth”, The New Yorker

How and why Mitt Romney pays 15% in taxes 

“What low capital-gains tax rates mostly do is to encourage people to save their money by investing in assets, rather than saving it in vehicles that pay interest or dividends, or spending it on consumption goods.”

- The Economist

Profile of Megaupload CEO 

This guy quoted the Sandlot movie and named himself after detective John Kimble.

What’s not to love?

Baby’s first taste of apple (Taken with instagram)

Nintendo coffee mats (Taken with Instagram at Wormhole Coffee)

Baby’s first Google

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