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"Writing appears more forgiving because there is no compiler or interpreter … but your readers..."

Wed, 16 May 2012 12:49:43 -0500

“Writing appears more forgiving because there is no compiler or interpreter … but your readers are far more critical than the Python interpreter.”

- Please Learn to Write

"If the Internet really were a series of tubes, Yahoo would be the leaking sewage pipe."

Tue, 15 May 2012 18:34:21 -0500

““If the Internet really were a series of tubes, Yahoo would be the leaking sewage pipe.””

- How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet

Everyday

Fri, 11 May 2012 10:01:36 -0500

Everyday

"Forty years from now, we’ll know, at last, how we looked and sounded and made love, and who we..."

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 21:14:45 -0500

“Forty years from now, we’ll know, at last, how we looked and sounded and made love, and who we really were.”

- The New Yorker, http://nyr.kr/HGC9jb

"We’re bundling young people into things called startups, and selling them to investors for..."

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:30:40 -0500

“We’re bundling young people into things called startups, and selling them to investors for ever-increasing amounts of money.”

- It’s definitely a bubble

"He was given to fits of rage, male chauvinism, self-righteous misanthropy, and nihilistic moods of..."

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:14:49 -0500

“

He was given to fits of rage, male chauvinism, self-righteous misanthropy, and nihilistic moods of despair.

He had complaints about life, but never any solutions.

He longed to be an artist, but balked at the necessary sacrifices.

In his most private moments, he spoke of his fear of death, which he elevated to tragic heights, when in fact it was mere narcissism.

”

- Manhattan

"War is the most horrific, sickening thing mankind can inflict upon itself, fought by and large by..."

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:55:00 -0600

“War is the most horrific, sickening thing mankind can inflict upon itself, fought by and large by uneducated maniacs that have no other place in the world.”

- http://www.mediumdifficulty.com/2012/03/01/call-of-apathy-violent-young-men-and-our-place-in-war/

The Comma Sutra

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 16:54:50 -0600

The Comma Sutra

Most poorly designed Economist cover I’ve ever seen

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 16:54:24 -0600

Most poorly designed Economist cover I’ve ever seen

"Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two..."

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:00:05 -0600

“Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.”

- “Outliers”, Malcolm Gladwell

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

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:30:05 -0600

“

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..."

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:30:05 -0600

“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)

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:40:25 -0600

Shake n bake (Taken with instagram)

"As technological evolution brings larger and larger swaths of people within shouting distance, they..."

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:30:00 -0600

“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..."

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:31:27 -0600

“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

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:08:59 -0600

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

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:34:41 -0600

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)

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:12:10 -0600

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

Nintendo coffee mats (Taken with Instagram at Wormhole Coffee)

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:18:41 -0600

Nintendo coffee mats (Taken with Instagram at Wormhole Coffee)

Baby’s first Google

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:54:38 -0600

Baby’s first Google