Yesterday
From Jefferson's private decalogue:
- Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.
- Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
- Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
- How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
- Take things always by their smooth handle.
July 1, 2009
June 29, 2009
June 25, 2009
Nathan added Search User Interfaces to his library.
June 24, 2009
June 22, 2009
Introducing Books
I'm slowly amassing a little library of these fun little graphic introductions to various subjects.
June 20, 2009
Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it any considerable distance, it'll begin to give you an idea what size mind you have. What it'll fit and, maybe, what it won't. After a while, you'll have an idea what kind of thoughts your particular size mind should be wearing. For one thing, it may save an extraordinary amount of time trying on ideas that don't suit you, aren't becoming of you. You'll begin to know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
... lots of time you don't know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn't interest you most. I mean you can't help it sometimes. What I think is, you're supposed to leave somebody alone if he's at least being interesting and he's getting all excited about something. I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.
June 17, 2009
Nathan added The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work to his library.
June 16, 2009
Clay Shirky talks about the recent events with the Iranian election and how Twitter is changing the game:
I'm always a little reticent to draw lessons from things still unfolding, but it seems pretty clear that ... this is it. The big one. This is the first revolution that has been catapulted onto a global stage and transformed by social media. I've been thinking a lot about the Chicago demonstrations of 1968 where they chanted "the whole world is watching." Really, that wasn't true then. But this time it's true ... and people throughout the world are not only listening but responding. They're engaging with individual participants, they're passing on their messages to their friends, and they're even providing detailed instructions to enable web proxies allowing Internet access that the authorities can't immediately censor. That kind of participation is reallly extraordinary.
June 9, 2009
June 6, 2009
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