January 2012
14 posts
“Jakob Lodwick, an entrepreneur and co-founder of Vimeo, recently raised $2...”
– Disruptions: The Sloshing Sound of Tech Valuations - NYTimes.com
“The only way to be happy is to love. Unless you love, your life will flash by.”
– The Tree of Life
“There was a ten year old boy and I went up to him and I said “hey...”
– Adam Beach on Northern Communities in Canada
“A would-be saboteur arrested today at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland...”
– Mike Daisey
“data show that drinking and earnings are positively correlated. We hypothesize...”
– Reason Foundation - No Booze? You May Lose
December 2011
4 posts
Prakash Amte: What it takes to dine with a lion |... →
“The result is that we don’t seek reproductive success directly; we seek tasty...”
– Why We Haven’t Met Any Aliens § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
November 2011
2 posts
certain types of bias that frequently hurt effective decision-making: Confirmation bias -- the tendency to search for or interpret information in a way that confirms preconceptions.
Blind spot bias -- being less aware of one's own cognitive biases than those of others.
Fundamental attribution error -- over-emphasizing personality-based or character-based effects on behavior.
Anchoring bias -- relying too heavily on one trait or one piece of information.
Representative bias -- judging the likelihood of a hypothesis by its resemblance to immediately available data.
Projection bias -- assuming others share one's current feelings, values or thinking
“a man in very unpractical headwear appears to be riding a llama, which has an...”
– Codex Seraphinianus - See the World’s Strangest Book on AbeBooks
October 2011
1 post
September 2011
4 posts
“Lucky-Goldstar started out selling face creams …”
– The History of LG via Brand Details
“You should regard money as fuel for what you really want to do, not as a goal in...”
– Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles - O’Reilly Radar
“Disclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action and the Cultivation...”
– About Ludicorp Research & Development Ltd.
August 2011
1 post
June 2011
4 posts
“You should make Brickbreaker again… Except make the bricks look like...”
– No thanks for the suggestion.
April 2011
3 posts
March 2011
2 posts
February 2011
2 posts
January 2011
3 posts
“For example, in many ways Richard was a sexist. Whenever it came time for his...”
– No! Feynman is perfect. This is all lies. Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine - The Long Now
December 2010
6 posts
"Pirated Film Night"
i’m making a list of things you can’t do anymore when your company gets bigger.
mat: sorry, ali said we're cutting back on the sparkle budget this year
me: wouldn't you rather work for a less sparkly, yet more profitable company?
catherine: no.
me: me neither.
“Just before we left the studio [minutes before he died] John looked at...”
– Ono - John Lennon’s Final Interview | Rolling Stone Music
November 2010
6 posts
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