March 2009
1 post
“The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance...”
– Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
February 2009
1 post
Principles of the American Cargo Cult →
This really sums up the American myth. Remember: “When you wish upon a star, all your dreams come true!”
January 2009
34 posts
“Dismiss whatever insults your soul.”
– Walt Whitman
“Fight as if you are right; listen as if you are wrong.”
– Karl Weick, University of Michigan
“Assholes tend to stick together [within an organization], and once stuck are not...”
– Robert Sutton, The No Asshole Rule
“The truth converges”
– Dave Rahardja
“Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to...”
– Peter Drucker
“People don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care.”
– Unknown
Nine (questionable) reasons why Blu-ray will... →
My prediction: Blu-Ray will never achieve widespread consumer penetration.
Hello Apple, Goodbye Apple Topics →
I’m excited about the Asus Eee “keyboard media center” with touch screen! Yet another Intel #Atom device! http://is.gd/gtXR
You can tell what a company’s biggest problems are by reading the slogans they put up on their office walls—for example, ‘Quality is Job 1’
RT @scifri: dank flavor of “corked” wine can be removed by pouring wine into a bowl with a sheet of plastic wrap. http://is.gd/gtQR
“You can tell what a company’s biggest problems are by reading the slogans...”
– Someone witty I know
Why the heck does “Welcome to my study” make me laugh so hard? http://is.gd/gqhh (YouTube)
Let the Atom handheld device parade begin: http://is.gd/gpN8
Tumblr entry: Of Karma and Probabilities http://is.gd/gpKK
Femtocell coming for Verizon customers: http://is.gd/gpKf
Of Karma and Probabilities
Do you believe in Karma? I do.
To me, Karma is simply a matter of probabilities. What goes around comes around, naturally. The more good you do, the more good you inject into The System, thus increasing the amount of good in it, relative to bad. The more good there is in The System, the more likely it is that the next thing you bump into will be good.
So there you go: Karma. It makes...
Huge earthquake off the coast of Australia http://is.gd/8kBh http://is.gd/gpCv
Making its rounds: Books to be tested for lead http://bit.ly/bJXJ
Why won’t TweetDeck scroll horizontally when I do a 2-finger swipe on my MacBook Pro? Is this an Adobe AIR problem?
“Pain is temporary. Suck is forever.”
– Jay Shuster, Pixar
“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But...”
– Steve Jobs
Digging http://is.gd/gnSo 650 million years in 1:20. Can’t wait for 250M yr in the future where we’ll all live on one big island again!
Belkin replies to Mechanical Turk shilling →
Why Google Employees Quit →
Here’s an extensive archive of emails from ex-Google employees, explaining why they left the company. Most of the emails are very recent (late 2008), and they come from all over the world. There are definitely plenty of lessons to be learned here.
RT @digg_2000 “19 yr old assaults mom with a taco after she uplugs his xbox” - http://tinyurl.com/76q3m8
Just submitted WootWatch 1.4.4 to the App Store. Fixes issues with the site changes at woot.com.
Hello Apple, Goodbye Apple Topics →
I’ve just accepted a position at Apple Inc. I’m going to be working on iPhone software!
RT @zaibatsu http://bit.ly/GRTWJ Unbelievable pictures from all over the world
It feels good to clear my inbox! Sifting through stacks of receipts and papers feels like an archeology expedition!
This is some freaking good iPhone art! →
Belkin gets caught paying for positive reviews on... →
So Belkin pays off people via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to write shill reviews. What’s the solution for this problem?