June 2010
12 posts
“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”
– George Herbert
“My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do...”
– Clarence B. Kelland
Livingstone: The Next Generation of Web Services →
I am noticing a growing trend amongst my friends and I: we are increasingly using the web to manage our daily lives.
Over winter break I told my mom that I don’t go to drugstores as often as I did a few years ago. Amazon has made this part of my life easier. I buy a fair amount of items on…
Wonderful Discussion on Teasing →
I’m a big fan of teasing, but this post and the comments below I found quite interesting, as they reminded me of my relationship with my sister growing up (I loved teasing, she didn’t).
Web Services as Governments →
Brilliant post by Brad Burnham of Union Square Ventures drawing the analogy of social networks to governments (rather than ecosystems), in which the application developers play the private sector and the users play the citizens.
As I thought about it, it became clear that web platforms really don’t make much. Instead, they create the conditions that encourage others to invest their time...
The Real Science Gap →
The current approach — trying to improve the students or schools — will not produce the desired result, the experts predict, because the forces driving bright young Americans away from technical careers arise elsewhere, in the very structure of the U.S. research establishment.
scores of thousands of young Ph.D.s labor in the nation’s university labs as low-paid, temporary workers, ostensibly...
Tabbloid + G-Reader + Evernote = Bliss
Total Recall isn’t just an old Governator movie, it’s also a goal for anyone that’s ever forgotten anything. Evernote goes a long way to making that possible, but you still have to remember to save or send items to it before it can “Remember Everything”. One thing missing from that equation for me is RSS feeds - I subscribe to several hundred feeds (of which I...
Proposal for Downsizing Congress
Although this was sent to me as spam-mail, I thought it provided at least semi-interesting thoughts on national finance and governance.
When a company falls on difficult times, one of the things that seems to happen is they reduce their staff and workers. The remaining workers must find ways to continue to do a good job or risk that their job would be eliminated as well. Wall street and the...
Gun Control
Although I haven’t settled my views on gun control, I found these images enticing.
