February 2010
25 posts
“Twitter and Facebook give knowledge workers the chance to turn downtime into a...”
– How Twitter and Facebook Make Us More Productive | Magazine
“In the brain, prefrontal areas, which help regulate emotion, can relax, freeing...”
– Mind - New Research Focuses on the Power of Physical Contact - NYTimes.com
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever...”
– Steve Jobs (via suzannexie) (via ladylogique) (via ronworkman) (via kellysutton) (via abeshafi)
“We didn’t care because we were chasing stuff. The real crisis is a crisis...”
– The Real Roots of the Crisis - Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review
“And startup advisor Tyler Willis? Tyler Fucking Willis?? Nobody! Keith Rabois...”
– Rampaging Tech Investor Begins Insulting Each Person In Silicon Valley Individually - We Read Twitter So You Don’t Have To - Gawker
Fucking hilarious. More so if you’ve had the pleasure of meeting @rabois and @tylerwillis.
“Health means life. If you get a major illness or injury and cannot get it...”
– George Lakoff (via azspot)
vruz: it’s stupid that you have to have this explained to you. but here you go…
(via vruz)
“Is there a gap between what you’re CAPABLE of doing/being and what you’re...”
– Brian Johnson
Man appears free of HIV after stem cell transplant →
vruz:
—via danielholter:theoriginaljoefisher:Kaboom.
vruz: is god against this too? if god made man intelligent enough to make stem cell transplants, then god thinks this is good. if god doesn’t want man to mess with man’s own biology, then why make man intelligent? if god doesn’t want man to cure HIV, how is god benevolent? yeah, kaboom indeed.
“But this isn’t how the Internet works. Viral content doesn’t spread just from...”
– Op-Ed Contributor - Free viral videos - NYTimes.com
From a NYT piece by Damian from OK Go about EMI turning off the embed feature on their videos. (via david-noel) (via mikehudack)
“Sarah Palin has a suggestion for how Barack Obama can save his presidency. “Say...”
– Fareed, on the continued push from the right for war on Iran. (via newsweek) (via mikehudack)
“Will we see more of this violence? Most assuredly. Further, as this economic...”
– Global Guerrillas (via azspot)
vruz: and just like any other war, this one too is of the unwinnable kind. from a global perspective, having a superpower like the US descend to chaos is not only dangerous, but also unaffordable. despite the crazy people of the east, paranoia and fear are wildly...
“The tighter you squeeze something the more it will slip through your fingers....”
– Unknown (via kareem)
Bonobo - Animal Magic - Dismantling Frank
Upcoming startup incubator deadlines →
“The biggest mind shift in following a lean startup process is going from...”
– My experiments in lean pricing - Venture Hacks (via hiten) (via micahbaldwin)
The answer to the problem of cars and automotive emissions, for instance, isn’t designing a better car, it’s designing a better city. The answer to the problem of overconsumption isn’t recycling cans or green shopping, it’s changing our relationship to stuff, so that everything we use and live with is designed for zero waste, and either meant to last (“heirloom...
“Work is what we have considered for years: your boss tells you to do something,...”
– Clay Shirky: Doing work, or Doing Work? | blog@CACM (via neekolas)
“It’s a sign Edelman’s belief in marketer-as-media-company is stronger than ever....”
– Public Relations: Edelman Hires BBC Vet Richard Sambrook - Agency News - Advertising Age (via gross)
I'll be in NYC 2/11-2/16. What should I do?
“#4: Be Picky:
Another perennial business rule, and it applies to everything you...”
– 10 lessons of a web start up by Evan Williams (via tedr)
A lesson I learn every day. (via mikehudack)
February is Vice Month
gross:
Given it’s the shortest month, it makes sense to me to also make it the month to shed certain vices that I would like to control whenever possible. For this February I will look to follow:
1) No refined sugar
2) No Coffee
3) Limit alcohol to 1 night per week(ie. 6 nights/week without a sip)
Ready go.
awesome.
I’ll copy/paste gross’ #3 and add:
1) No pot.
2) Wake by...
“losing love
Is like a window in your heart
Everybody sees you’re blown...”
– Graceland - Paul Simon (Lyrics and Chords)
