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Obama fielded a facetious question from then-CEO Eric Schmidt: “What is the most...
– Obama is a True Nerd!
The A/B Test: Inside the Technology That’s Changing the Rules of Business | Epicenter | Wired.com
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kottke.org: RIP Facts, 360 B.C.-A.D. 2012 →
jkottke:
Columnist Rex Huppke mourns the death of facts in contemporary American society.
To the shock of most sentient beings, Facts died Wednesday, April 18, after a long battle for relevancy with the 24-hour news cycle, blogs and the Internet. Though few expected Facts to pull out of its years-long…
Education is what someone tells you to do and learning is what you do for...
– Skillshare founder Mike Karnjanaprakorn opening the 2012 Penny Conference.
Also seeSir Ken Robinson on changing educational paradigms and lifelong learning.
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You may not be a Picasso or Mozart but you don’t have to be. Just create to...
– 5 manifestos for the creative life (via explore-blog)
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I exhort you to love another human being. It may seem odd for me to tell you...
– Adrian Tan, in a commencement address he gave in 2008 to NTU in Singapore
I find the bit about love being inhibited by a modern society particularly poignant, mostly because I have come to believe this reality so strongly that love has seemed silly to me for the most part. I love activities:...
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Russell. Westbrook.
gif by yours truly.
Thanks to technology’s mass appeal and accessibility, on a daily basis we...
– BBC News - Data wars: Unlocking the information goldmine (via myserendipities)
This is insane.
The Media Map: Who's Reading What And Where... →
I’m surprised that the LA Times still has this much circulation. I barely read it because I find its quality to be mediocre at best. Wisconsin and Minnesota are a pretty hilarious result though haha.
lilly:
I find this map hilarious. It’s a map of which publications are most influential in which states. Some are predictable: NYT in northeast corridor, Fox News in Texas. But some are so on...
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When elite universities boast that they teach their students how to think, they...
– second quote from “The Disadvantages of an Elite Education”
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Being an intellectual means, first of all, being passionate about ideas—and not...
– “The Disadvantages of an Elite Education”
When I hear my friends having fun without me
this is so great.
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Perfectionism is a neurosis. It is an illness. And the more you try to become...
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This one hits home.
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1. Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and...
– C. S. Lewis on writing, joining other sage writing advice from Kurt Vonnegut, Billy Wilder, Jack Kerouac, John Steinbeck, Henry Miller, and David Ogilvy.
More on the power of simple words.
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When I forget that I ordered something online and...
I do this a lot. It explains why I’m so broke.
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