July 2010
33 posts
“No generation has ever had as much of what it needs to change the world so...”
– Making A Big Fat Bet on this Generation | Social Entrepreneurship | Change.org
“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing...”
– Charles Bukowski (via @jonnybint)
The Homeless Triangle - Help Fund This Story
Imagine leaving a cell after two years - with only $200 to your name. From that $200 you must first buy a bus pass and some clothes. Imagine that you also happen to have diabetes, severe mental illness, or profound intellectual impairment. You stand there, looking at the bills in your hand. If you had no home, no friends, and no social support of any kind - where would you go? How will you afford...
“Most people I know have problems with Internet addiction. We’re all trying to...”
– The Acceleration of Addictiveness
-Paul Graham
(via neekolas)
“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (Choke) (via kari-shma) (via quote-book) (via jessperation, kari-shma)
“Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s...”
– Susan Sontag (via jessperation)
so you want to be a writer? →
jessperation:…
by Charles Bukowski
if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don’t do it. if you have to sit for hours staring at your computer screen or hunched over your typewriter …
What I Did When I Couldn't Find a Job →
azspot:
It was a bit of a shock, losing all expectations. For years—all my life, really—parents, teachers, and guidance counselors had told me that if I went to a good college and did well, I would be able to find a job after graduation that would, with a little ladder-climbing, keep me comfortable and financially secure. After I graduated in May 2009, in political science, I moved back home to...
Reframing health as more than healthcare.
idlaurenn:
“A collaborative co-care model is starting to evolve for healthcare delivery…the patient’s role may become one of active participant, information sharer, peer leader, and self-tracker, while the physician’s role may become one of care consultant, co-creator, and health co-ordinator.”
Patients become the designers. (See the slideshow)
“Turning the other cheek turns out to have selfish advantages. Someone who does...”
– The Top Idea in Your Mind
“I’ve found there are two types of thoughts especially worth...”
– The Top Idea in Your Mind
“I would like to beg of you, dear friend, as well as I can, to have patience with...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet. (via dihard)
WatchChris Sacca: “How International Travel informs Entreprenuership”
“Silicon Valley is a way of thinking about business: it’s a way of focusing on end users and their problems; it’s a way of hiring smart people, paying them relatively little, but giving them equity in the company; it’s a way of sharing information with the people that you work with, flat transparent...
“…many Iranians by nature are not particularly religious, in the sense of...”
– National Geographic Magazine - NGM.com (via Instapaper)
““The stories of Rostam are their myths,” he said. “This is how the Iranians see...”
– National Geographic Magazine - NGM.com (via Instapaper)
“…the Cyrus Cylinder—perhaps Iran’s most exalted artifact—housed at the...”
– National Geographic Magazine - NGM.com (via Instapaper)
“The legacy from antiquity that has always seemed to loom large in the national...”
– National Geographic Magazine - NGM.com (via Instapaper)
“They like to say, for instance, that when invaders came to Iran, the Iranians...”
– National Geographic Magazine - NGM.com (via Instapaper)
“But I was a guest in Iran, and in Iran a guest is accorded the highest status,...”
– National Geographic Magazine - NGM.com (via Instapaper)
Why Old Spice matters « Snarkmarket →
So the Old Spice campaign was funny, surprising, and perfectly-calibrated. These would be reasons enough to like it. But I’m not going to let you stop there. Here’s how I think the campaign establishes an important new precedent—not for online advertising, but for online story telling across the board.
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“Friendships worthy of the name are different. Their rhythm lies not in what they...”
– Friendship in an Age of Economics - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com (via Instapaper)
A Hole in the World →
unburyingthelead:
If Katrina pulled back the curtain on racism, the BP disaster pulls back the curtain on something far more hidden: how little control even the most ingenious among us have over the awesome, intricately interconnected natural forces with which we so casually meddle. BP cannot plug the hole in the Earth that it made. Obama cannot order brown pelicans not to go extinct (no...
Facebook's Getting Serious about Local →
“…a sign that hangs in the Vermont mill where all of the company’s socks continue...”
– How I Saved My Company: Darn Tough Vermont - You’re the Boss Blog - NYTimes.com
Sawickipedia says: Great story of how an American textile - yes textile - manufacturer saved itself and 110 textile manufacturing jobs by creating a “super premium” product and brand. I wish more businesses were run...
“No one in their right mind would have wished for another Great Depression, of...”
– Robert Reich: Slouching Toward a Double Dip or a Lousy Recovery at Best (via marco)
Every couple of days someone posts an amazing... →
(via nickdouglas)
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the...”
– Thoreau, Walden (via newspeedwayboogie)
“The most dangerous way to lose time is not to spend it having fun, but to spend...”
– Paul Graham
How to Lose Time and Money
via hiten (via msg) (via heyamberrae)
“The final thing I’d say about optimism is this. If we took the loopiest, most...”
– Clay Shirky: ‘Paywall will underperform – the numbers don’t add up’ | Technology | The Guardian (via thewavingcat) (via rafer) (via thegongshow) (via bijan)
June 2010
28 posts
“One of the most interesting analyses on the ways in which our decisions kill us...”
– Dan Ariely » Save your own life «
If the medical profession is to remain relevant to the health of our country in the next century, we must become experts in changing people’s behavior.
(via jayparkinsonmd)
“We may be able to undercut some of the world’s most brutal militias simply by...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - Death by Gadget in Congo - NYTimes.com (via Instapaper)
“This is what complicates the mission to find a mission. On the one hand, to...”
– Study Hacks » Blog Archive » In Search of Purpose: Esther Duflo and the Pre-Conditions for Finding Your Life’s Mission (via Instapaper)
“Your task is not to seek love, but to seek and find all the barriers within...”
– Rumi (via kareem)
“It takes extraordinary wisdom & self control to accept that many things have...”
– Nassim N Taleb
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
– Mahatma Gandhi (via coffeeanddreams) (via kareem)
“When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we’ve...”
– Bruce Mau Design’s Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
(via Norheim Design)
BP Builds Island to Dodge Offshore Ban; Borrows... →
mikehudack:
boutofcontext:
To get around a ban on offshore drilling, BP made a new island off Alaska’s coast, under which it will drill slantwise. Per another piece in that issue of Rolling Stone:
BP’s plan — which uses an unproven approach to extracting undersea oil — is not covered by the six-month moratorium on offshore drilling. This fall, the company plans to begin drilling for oil...
Watchjayparkinsonmd:
newsweek:
sarahfrank:
If you only watch ONE Michael Jackson death anniversary video, you’re gonna want to make it this one.
This teacher inspires me to no end. Just imagine the impact he’s making on those kids lives.
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those...”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt (via underpaidgenius)
“If I had my life to live over, I’d dare to make more mistakes next time. I’d...”
– Nadine Stair
(via raindropsonredroses) (via postitsonyourfridge) (via underpaidgenius)
“…these days, a consumer-facing web service cannot be successful without...”
– Brad Burnham, Union Square Ventures
Andrew Parker - The Gong Show: Web Services with a Social Mission
“Because attention is the new scarcity, it’s more important than ever that...”
– Andrew Parker - The Gong Show: Web Services with a Social Mission
Desiderata
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. If you compare yourself with...
“The most successful companies treat success as a byproduct of achieving their...”
– Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles - O’Reilly Radar (via Instapaper)