August 2009
42 posts
“In every aspect of your business (and personal life) try to allow others to...”
– New Rules for the New Economy (via heyitsnoah)
Shai lays down science on the Black People on...
nickdouglas:
So my friend Micah had a theory on why minorities seem to dominate Twitter trend search results: “These people don’t have real Twitter friends. So they all respond to trending topics. And that’s the game, that’s how they use Twitter.” (He wasn’t saying this was “doing it wrong,” just different from what he was used to seeing.)
Some smart people reblogged it. Then a smart person...
“That was the point of Kennedy’s career: he treated his legislative service not...”
– Two Deaths: Interesting Times : The New Yorker
“ “People are good and trustworthy and generally just concerned with...”
– Why Craigslist Is Such a Mess
“The Internet has taught me this: don’t be afraid of sharing your ideas. Don’t be...”
– Paolo Coelho (via brit) (via davemorin)
“At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on...”
– 2009 Art Theme: Evolution
George Lakoff on The PolicySpeak Disaster for...
ambivalence:
Lakoff thinks it may be possible for Obama to trun around the health insurance policy debate, but not be continuing with what he is doing now.
George Lakoff: The PolicySpeak Disaster for Health Care]
“The view of human reason and language behind [Obama’s] PolicySpeak [website] is just false. Certainly reason should be used. It’s just that you should use real reason, the way people...
“I get that the public option isn’t a cure-all and I also get that it would be...”
– Matt Taibbi, Health Care Rats Come Out Of The Woodwork (via soupsoup)
Without the public option, the government has no significant way to control costs. It was one of the major decent top town efforts. But, since this looks more and more like the private insurance industry has won, “Insurance...
“Once you have a mission, you can’t go back to having a job”
– (via taylordavidson) (via kareem)
“Successful leadership comes down to (1) understanding what barriers and...”
– Can You Lead Something That You Haven’t Mastered? : Managing : Idea Hub :: American Express OPEN Forum
Priority Test - Health Care or Prisons?
¶The United States incarcerates people at nearly five times the world average. Of those sentenced to state prisons, 82 percent were convicted of nonviolent crimes, according to one study.
¶California spends $216,000 annually on each inmate in the juvenile justice system. In contrast, it spends only $8,000 on each child attending the troubled Oakland public school system, according to the Urban...
“What things like the internet and on-demand cable have brought into the minds of...”
– Atencioblog - District 9’s Effects On the Film Industry
An excellent essay in general and very much worth the read.
“Fear’s purpose is to notify us that we are at the edge of our comfort zone,...”
– DailyOM - The Wisdom of Fear (via kareem)
“I say turn your health into a social game like Foursquare. Check in when you...”
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Dr. Jay Parkinson commenting on Health Populi’s “People without a connection to a primary care doctor don’t proactively manage health” via johncarney: kylebunch: heyitsnoah editorlisa dpstyles
Echoing Tyler Willis’ thoughts, Game Dynamics and Social Proof should become omnipresent in the...
“Make sure the minimum unit of work required of user contributions is very small...”
– Caterina Fake paraphrased via cdixon.org / Notes from brown bag lunch at Betaworks
“The idea that you are going to hard wire the key goals of an early stage company...”
– Fred Wilson (via entrepreneurwisdom) (via mikehudack)
“In the 10 years or so I’ve been involved with startups, I have never seen a...”
– Chris Dixon (via entrepreneurwisdom) (via mikehudack)
Currently we track users like pigeons to entice [ad] buyers to place their client’s ads. Then buyers place their feet on their desks and a target on our backs, as they demand lower prices because the targeting we over-promised is under-delivering on performance goals we had no influence in setting. And what do we do next? We lower our CPMs and take on further responsibility to optimize...
“His name was Harvey Milk. And he was here to recruit us, all of us, to join a...”
– President Barack Obama
—via Rachel Slajda, Talking Points Memo
President Obama awarded the late Harvey Milk the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.
(via vruz)
learning how to learn » Let’s Abolish High School... →
“Services are not offered for free at all. There is an exchange of value between...”
– Brad Burnham, Union Square Ventures
Chris and Malcolm are both wrong
(via fred-wilson) (via davemorin)
New MP3 from Bon Iver/Justin Vernon side project... →
(via catbird)
“The diet-heart hypothesis, the idea that dietary saturated fat and cholesterol...”
– Whole Health Source: The Diet-Heart Hypothesis: Oxidized LDL, Part II
“You can’t be happy all the time, but you can pretty much focus all the time....”
– Winifred Gallagher, author of Rapt, who actively shifts her attention on more positive, productive things. (via designtumblelog)
“Mr. Obama understood these risks. When asked about a carbon tax in an interview...”
– Greg Mankiw - A Missed Opportunity on Climate Change - NYTimes.com
This is why I’ve supported a carbon tax, as opposed to the cap and trade approach.
(via jeffmiller)
(via mikehudack)
“There comes a time in almost everyone’s youth when those remarkable human...”
– Puberty on the Scale of a Planet - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com
How to Think Constructively About Healthcare -... →
“Look around the room you’re sitting in. Every object in that room - the right...”
– Alison Gopnik, Imagination is Real (via designtumblelog) (via rafer) (via mikehudack)
“A smart traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.”
– Lao Tzu (via ambivalence)
The No-Strategy Strategy →
heyitsnoah:
The Times has an interesting interview with Wendy Koop, founder of Teach for America. I think my favorite point she makes is one about planning (or the lack thereof):
At one point, I also had this revelation that we were no longer going to go through all this development of strategic plans. We would go through this massive process of creating these endless strategic plans and...
Was the AIG bailout a Goldman bailout by proxy?
Of the $52 billion paid to AIG’s counterparties, Goldman Sachs was the biggest recipient: $13 billion, the entire balance of its claim. The amount was surprising: Banks like Merrill Lynch that had bought credit-default swaps from failed insurers other than AIG were paid 13 cents on the dollar in deals moderated by New York’s insurance regulator. Eric Dinallo, the former New York State insurance...