February 2012
22 posts
“The next time you hear people invoking the European example to demand that we...”
– What Ails Europe? - NYTimes.com
Watch(via Lawrence Lessig: How Money Corrupts Congress and a Plan to Stop It - The Long Now)
“A well-ordered humanism does not begin with itself, but puts things back in...”
– Claude Lévi-Strauss (via stoweboyd)
“There is no other way to put this without resorting to demographic bluntness:...”
– Timothy Egan, The Electoral Wasteland (via syntheticpubes)
“For the last two decades the world powers have been spending 200 billion...”
– 2025, If… - Buckminster Fuller - Tools Ideas Environment - Whole Earth Catalog
“As of the closing of 1974, muscle and power are in complete dominance over world...”
– 2025, If… - Buckminster Fuller - Tools Ideas Environment - Whole Earth Catalog
Henry Miller's Writing Commandments →
youmightfindyourself:
Work on one thing at a time until finished.
Start no more new books, add no more new material to “Black Spring.”
Don’t be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.
Work according to Program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time!
When you can’t create you can work.
Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers.
Keep...
“fruit is sex you can eat.”
“There may be no better way to achieve lasting happiness — as opposed to mere...”
– Guitar Zero - a neuroscientist debunks the myth of a “music talent” and learns to play. (via curiositycounts)
Beyond the Seas I’ll put up a boat, and set it free off the shore. I’ll let it take me away-from this eerie land, where nobody calls up the sleeping heroes- from their long, lonely trance.
I’ll put up a boat, and set it free off the shore; a boat with no net, a boat with no seine, with my heart cleansed of wish for pearl.
I’ll sail away on the tides. I’ll sing all along the ride.
Neither the...
Smart People Ask Questions →
tmac721:
Not only do smart people ask questions when they don’t understand something, but they also ask questions when the world thinks it understands something. Smart people challenge the very limit of human understanding, and push the envelope of what’s possible farther than many people would argue it’s meant to be pushed. Smart people don’t take claims at face value, and smart people don’t...
“Q. What ideals have you embraced from Steve Jobs? A. The importance of doing...”
– Business & Technology | AP Interview: JC Penney CEO talks about the chain | Seattle Times Newspaper (via tywillis)
“The corruption of this government is a cancer. And you don’t launch an attack on...”
– The tyranny of tiny minds and big money - Salon.com
It Is Safe to Resume Ignoring the Prophets of Doom... →
Adam Davidson via The NY Times
For nearly a decade, it turns out, the most accurate forecasts have come from the fringe. So it’s upsetting to learn that many of those same Cassandras now believe, for different reasons, that we are on the brink of another catastrophe that may be far worse. Wolff, the Marxist, fears that China may be entering a significant slowdown, which, combined with Europe’s...
Watch(via Lawrence Lessig: How Money Corrupts Congress and a Plan to Stop It - The Long Now)
1) Because of the costs of running a campaign for office and our current campaign finance rules, corporate interests effectively run the government, in many cases creating outcomes that are completely at odds with what is good for the people regardless of political view. Our democracy is corrupt.
2) Campaign...
“Emails, tweets, notifications, text and instant messages, Facebook status...”
– Over Notified | Om Malik
(via tedr)
“The secret of success is concentrating interest in life, interest in sports and...”
– Excerpt from an altogether beautiful 1928 letter to 16-year-old Jackson Pollock from his dad (via curiositycounts)
“So what would our mornings look like if we re-engineered them in the interest of...”
– New neurosciences studies show most morning routines kill creativity, but there might be something we can do about it. (via curiositycounts)
