January 2010
35 posts
“It’s so tempting to start drawing maps for people. It makes them happy and it...”
– seth godin (via kareem)
“The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures...”
– Wade Davis (via)
“On Monday, Apple revealed the results of its fiscal 2010 first quarter, which...”
– AppleInsider | Notes of interest from Apple’s Q1 2010 conference call
Never one to hide that I like Apple, but from an operational perspective, how can you not? Crushing it, and you also have guys like Cook, with quotes that make you want to root them on.
“Our whole education business is based on...
“We’ve been taught that our government, ostensibly a representative democracy, is...”
– Marco.org: No, we can’t
Obviously you should read everything he has to say here. (via peterwknox) (via mikehudack)
“Obama should make the centerpiece of his presidency mobilizing a million new...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - More (Steve) Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs - NYTimes.com
“If someone approached me even five years ago and explained that one day in the...”
– ‘Controlled Serendipity’ Liberates the Web - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
To be happy, your work must fulfill three universal psychological needs: autonomy, competence, and relatedness.
In more detail…
Autonomy refers to control over how you fill your time. As Deci puts it, if you have a high degree of autonomy, then “you endorse [your] actions at the highest level of reflection.”
Competence refers to mastering unambiguously useful things. As the psychologist Robert...
“We are most productive when we focus on a very small number of projects on which...”
– Study Hacks » Blog Archive » The Einstein Principle: Accomplish More By Doing Less
“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expedience asks the question, ‘Is it...”
– Martin Luther King
- claytoncubitt - bebelestrange (via underpaidgenius)
“Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it....”
– Judge Alex Kozinski, dissenting opinion in the White v. Samsung Elec. Am., Inc., 989 F.2d 1512 (9th Cir. 1993) ruling.
Amen, brother. (via gbattle) (via mikehudack)
“The final freedom I want to address today flows from the four I’ve already...”
– Hillary Clinton on internet freedom, January 21 | Foreign Policy (via giantrobotlasers) (via tedr)
“The U.S. Justice Department has opened a formal antitrust investigation into...”
– U.S. Opens Antitrust Probe of Monsanto - WSJ.com
sawickipedia: Awesome - couldn’t have happened to a more evil company.
Word. They invent the poison and the antidote and market to everyone as natural and needed.
(via tedr)
What will happen when "health reform" goes into... →
jayparkinsonmd:
via Vijay Goel, MD:
If “Health Reform” as presently constructed gets passed, what happens? Would love to hear what you think. Here are my predictions:
The actual calculation of “Cadillac” plans will create a new audit function that will increase the cost of all plans
Community Rating approaches will dramatically drive up premiums in individual-rated states. This will force...
Pitch Decks →
Killer guidelines for an early stage pitch deck. (via micahbaldwin)
“Detroit is particularly well suited to become a pioneer in urban agriculture at...”
– What Should We Do With a Semi-Abandoned U.S. City? » INFRASTRUCTURIST
Hantz Farms will use a trellised system that’s compact, highly efficient, and tourist-friendly. It won’t be like apple picking in Massachusetts, and that’s the point. Score wants visitors to Hantz Farms to see that...
MediaPost Publications More Targeted Ad Dollars... →
rafer:
Rafer sez:
All ad targeting and performance enhancements shift risk from advertiser to publisher. Publishers older than the current risk profile need to significantly evolve their sites in order to make the same or better money than before. The more horizontal the site, the more difficult the evolution.
“You can only be in a bad mood for so long before you have to face up to the fact...”
– Jessica Darling, Sloppy Firsts (via itchycosmicpocket) (via leeshiebean) (via quote-book) (via hiten) (via kareem) (via taylordavidson)
Changing Responsibilities →
heyitsnoah:
In a post about the differences between being a graduate student and professor, one of the authors over at orgtheory.net makes a point that seems applicable almost everywhere:
In the early years, critique is about identifying holes and mistakes that make ideas less plausible. In the later years, critique is about identifying the germs of ideas worth development despite the current...
Product Discovery not Software Development
hiten:
lolstartups:
If you’re building a new product, your biggest risk isn’t that you won’t be able to reach a mainstream audience, but that you’ll fail to attract even 50 users that love your product.
When embarking on a new venture, your goal isn’t to implement any specific idea in the best way possible, but to iterate as fast as you can, till someone is passionate about whatever product...
A Democracy of Netbooks →
vruz:
—via azspot:
Netbooks are the endpoint of four decades of computing — the final, ubiquitous manifestation of “A PC on every desk and in every home”. But netbooks are more than just PCs. If the internet is the ultimate force of democratization in the world, then netbooks are the instrument by which that democracy will be achieved.
No monthly fees and contracts.
No gatekeepers.
...
health insurance reform could spell the end of...
Pollan: I think what’s about to happen, if we get this health care bill passed, and there are some kind of minimal rules, no more pre-existing conditions, they can’t throw you off the plan, they have to take you — suddenly, the health insurers will have an interest in your health that they don’t have now.
Stewart: That may be the worst sentence I’ve ever heard said! “Suddenly, the health insurers...
Flu Season: Factory Farming Builds Foundation For... →
The worst plague in human history was the 1918 flu pandemic triggered by a bird flu virus that went on to kill upwards of 50 million people. The crowded, stressful, unhygienic trench warfare conditions during World War I that led to the emergence of the 1918 virus are replicated today in nearly every industrial chicken shed and egg operation. Instead of millions of vulnerable hosts to evolve...
“A leader is a dealer in hope.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte (via kareem)
“The first telephone could only carry voices a mile or two. The leading telco of...”
– The next big thing will start out looking like a toy cdixon.org – chris dixon’s blog (via neekolas)
“But the main thing that is going down in San Telmo on sundays is a social...”
– Thinking About Etsy In The San Telmo Markets
“Teaching new facts should not be the focus of adult education, she says....”
– Adult Learning - Neuroscience - How to Train the Aging Brain - NYTimes.com (via hiten)
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“…an estimated 99 percent of people who have a problem with eating gluten...”
– Mark Hyman, MD: Gluten: What You Don’t Know Might Kill You
“Dr. Coleman says she had an “aha” moment five years ago, when the director of...”
– Career U. - Making College ‘Relevant’ - NYTimes.com (via evangotlib) (via mikehudack)