December 2010
26 posts
The Smartphone Explosion →
“If you want more students to learn the material, you don’t keep them separate...”
– How Steelcase Redesigned the 21st Century College Classroom | Co.Design
“For all its industrial efficiency and scalability, its transhemispheric reach...”
– Mark Zuckerberg - Person of the Year 2010 - TIME
“For all of Zuckerberg’s EQ, Facebook runs on a very stiff, crude model of...”
– Mark Zuckerberg - Person of the Year 2010 - TIME
“The fact that people yearned not to be liberated from their daily lives but to...”
– Mark Zuckerberg - Person of the Year 2010 - TIME
“Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal...”
– Alain de Botton on travel (via kareem)
“If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don’t...”
– Polaroid Inventor Edwin Land to employees, December 23, 1942
“An egg is the sun’s light refracted into life.”
–
On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
The yolk is a stockpile of fuel obtained by the hen from seeds and leaves, which are in turn stockpiles of the sun’s radiant energy. The yellow pigments that gave the yolk its name also come directly from plants, where they protect the...
“Beyond a certain threshold of intelligence and skill, the efficacy bottlenecks...”
– (128) What life lessons are unintuitive or go against common sense / wisdom? - Quora
“Happiness is a form of courage.”
– Holbrook Jackson (via julie911)
“Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive....”
– Stewart Brand [via] (via bunch)
Compared to conventional eggs, eggs from hens raised on pasture generally contain:
1/3 less cholesterole
1/4 less saturated fat
2/3 more vitamin A
2 times more omega-3 fatty acids
3 times more vitamin E
7 times more beta carotene
so spring for those $9 a dozen pastured eggs.
[note: ‘free-range’ is not the same as pastured and is a relatively meaningless marketing term...
“The key, though, is that democracies have a process for creating such...”
– Wikileaks and the Long Haul « Clay Shirky
“If it’s OK for a democracy to just decide to run someone off the internet for doing something they wouldn’t prosecute a newspaper for doing, the idea of an internet that further democratizes the public sphere will have taken a mortal...
WatchHow to Solve Creative Blocks - Rainn Wilson
“I think “creative blocks” come from people’s life journeys. If you don’t know who you are or what you’re about or what you believe in it’s really pretty impossible to be creative. So I think a lot of times when people have “creative blocks” and I know my share of friends do as well if they’re at just some stuck point. ...
“The punch line is that a good joke can move the brain toward just this kind of...”
– Searching the Brain for the Spark of Creative Problem-Solving - NYTimes.com
“Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.” A playful mind thrives on...”
– Frog Design: The Four Secrets of Playtime That Foster Creative Kids | Co.Design
“S: You’ve interviewed over 300 entrepreneurs now. Do you see any common...”
– Interview with Mixergy’s Andrew Warner
(via rafer)
“It’s not the picture of an economy that’s investing in tomorrow: it’s the...”
– umair haque- The Worst Trade in the World
I have found the importance of Christmas shopping numbers on the financial news channel a bit ironic. It seems that we are a better economy by spending money we do not have on shit made outside of our country. The above quote really summarized my...
“Winning comes by knowing the customer better, executing better, and continuing...”
– Always assume competition - Venture Hacks
“What we wanted was to talk about travel as a way to transform yourself and the...”
– Experiential Travel with AFAR | Wandering Educators