Evgeny Morozov’s latest op-ed, The Death of the Cyberflâneur, reminds me of two separate articles that I’ve read recently: Ian Leslie’s In Search of Serendipity from Intelligent Life and the many many articles on or referencing Susan Cain’s latest book,…
The secret of success is concentrating interest in life, interest in sports and good times, interest in your studies, interest in your fellow students, interest in the small things of nature, insects, birds, flowers, leaves, etc. In other words to…
Two kind of related articles: In fact, we have shown that when people create objects in the sweet spot of “difficult-enough-but-not-too-difficult,” they not only love those objects more, but also experience greater happiness; it really is fun to create. [Source]…
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” —Albert Einstein I’ve been meaning to write about teaching an evening introductory computer class for low-income residents with this awesome organization called Byte Back, but haven’t found the…
Wendy MacNaughton, you are my new favorite. I should’ve known that you were behind that feature on Leonardo Da Vinci’s To-Do List.
From this Intelligent Life article: “Editors with an eye for such things, what Zuckerman calls “curators”, are being superseded by “friends”—people like you, who probably already share your interests and world view—delivered by Facebook. Twitter is better at leading us…
While talking on the phone with Nic, a very important question came up: What is the most optimized gmail configuration? Multiple inboxes or priority inboxes? Multiple + priority inboxes? Horizontal or vertical? Chat on left or right? We’ve decided that…
As I’m making my way through Andrew Sullivan’s latest piece in Newsweek (which, I think, will be a nice foil piece to Jonathan Chait’s article in NYMag awhile back about liberal discontent), I wanted to stop and share this useful…
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.* —Eleanor Roosevelt What ideas are you thinking of right now? What are you reading? Imagine if someone asked you these questions and genuinely wanted to know and engage…
“Work in public. Reveal nothing.” —Robin Sloan I recently started cross-posting on Twitter and Facebook. I figured if I was posting links and things on my public Twitter account, I could also post said links and things on my Facebook…