March 2010
86 posts
Stupid vs Smart →
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February 2010
60 posts
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Buffett calls out financial leaders
“It has not been shareholders who have botched the operations of some of our country’s largest financial institutions,” wrote Buffett. “Yet they have borne the burden, with 90% or more of the value of their holdings wiped out in most cases of failure. Collectively, they have lost more than $500 billion in just the four largest financial fiascos of the last two years. To say...
“My bet is that in the next five years we’re going to see a boom of baby and kid...”
– The Pitter-Patter of Little Features (via hiten)
“When any sincere individual or group of people asks for your assistance in the...”
– I wish I would have had the pleasure to meet Rajeev Motwani, I think we would have got along… - Abiding by Rajeev’s Rule - Pattern Interrupt (via hiten)
“Simplicity is a high risk affair because it means you are betting that fewer...”
– John Maeda (via futuresimpleinc) (via infoneer-pulse)
Facebook Profiles Reflect Actual Personality, Not... →
(via psychotherapy)
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever...”
– Steve Jobs (via suzannexie) (via ladylogique) (via ronworkman) (via kellysutton)
“We didn’t care because we were chasing stuff. The real crisis is a crisis of...”
– The Real Roots of the Crisis - Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review (via rahmin)
The Hidden Art of Achieving Creative Flow
Pick a enjoyable, challenging activity. The easiest way to enter flow is by doing something you love. The activity also needs to challenge you, one you are extremely passionate about, that you enjoy doing, and that causes you to grow. If the activity is boring to tedious you won’t enjoy it, and so there is no way you can engage in flow.
Eliminate distractions. Turn off your phone, log out of...
“Thanks to State Senator Loni Hancock (D - Oakland) for her leadership in...”
– SF Bike.org: Bay Bridge (via tedr)
“I wonder what Proust would have made of our present-day locus of collective...”
– Jennifer Egan NYTimes.com (via somethingchanged)
“If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something...”
– Mohammad Ali
Power Naps Boost Brainpower →
New research suggests an hour’s nap can dramatically boost and restore your brainpower.
Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley discovered a nap can not only refresh the mind, but make you smarter. Conversely, the more hours we spend awake, the more sluggish our minds become, according to the findings.
The results support previous data from the same research team that pulling an...
“Writers tend to work early in the morning, or late at night, when brains are...”
– Scott Adams: Like a Night Watchman (via marco)
All people I know who create tend to be either early morning to late night people. Sometimes the late night becomes the early morning but either way I hardly hear of mid-day creations. I would bet that they are few and far between.
“When you are a start-up you want to polarize through your difference.”
– Mike Maples in his talk on Thunder Lizards
“I’ve tried to like it and find ways to use it, I really have. And I’m not saying...”
– Sorry Google — Buzz Just Isn’t Working for Me – GigaOM (via tedr)
“The government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on...”
– Treaty signed by George Washington, 1796.
[Our Founders Were NOT Fundamentalists | The Smirking Chimp]
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Facebook users think Read/Write Web blog is... →
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Abe:
This is hilarious!
Google shuts down music blogs without warning
In what critics are calling “musicblogocide 2010”, Google has deleted at least six popular music blogs that it claims violated copyright law. These sites, hosted by Google’s Blogger and Blogspot services, received notices only after their sites – and years of archives – were wiped from the internet. - Via- The Guardian
“Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion”
– Tina Fey (via kapi) (via quote-book) (via hiten)
“By focusing on only a few core features in the first version, you are forced to...”
– Paul Buchheit: If your product is Great, it doesn’t need to be Good. (via hiten)
“If you want to be influential, lead by doing, not by talking, and certainly not...”
– Mike Davidson, Never Dupe Your Readers (via davidkaneda) (via matthendrick)
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster...”
– Isaac Asimov (via nihilnoetia) (via booklover) (via infoneer-pulse)
Soldier- father accused of water-boarding daughter...
A soldier waterboarded his four-year-old daughter because she was unable to recite her alphabet.
Joshua Tabor admitted to police he had used the CIA torture technique because he was so angry.
As his daughter ‘squirmed’ to get away, Tabor said he submerged her face three or four times until the water was lapping around her forehead and jawline.
Tabor, 27, who had won custody of his...
“The diamond invention .. is a mechanism for converting tiny crystals of carbon...”
– Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? - The Atlantic (February 1982) (via kingsley2)
The Riddle of Consciousness (New York Times) →
psychotherapy:
The deeper that investigators dig, the more hidden chambers they find. Last Wednesday, scientists in England and Belgium reported that five people with severe brain injuries who had been identified as “vegetative,” beyond reach, showed activity on brain imaging that strongly suggested conscious awareness. One of them, a 29-year-old man thought to be “vegetative” for five years,...
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not;...”
– Calvin Coolidge (via Joshua Blankenship) (via davidkaneda) (via infoneer-pulse)
REMINDER: The Vast Majority Of The Government... →
mikehudack:abcsoupdot:(via nothingshortof)
“You only have one life to do whatever you want with. In 100 years; nobody will...”
– (via wetheurban) (via matthendrick)
“China has a death penalty, so does America. They even detain people without...”
– A law maker in Aceh, Indonesia, defending a law he helped pass that calls for the stoning of adulturers. (via squashed) (via mikehudack)
Physicist Discovers How to Teleport Energy →
davemorin:This is great news.
“If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a...”
– Sun Tzu (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book) (via hiten)