“Why bother working all day on a piece if something you throw together in 20 minutes will get the same attention from the world?” – Andrew Phelps What would you tell Atlas to do?
Monthly Archives: March 2012
Advertising Eats Batteries
“Up to 75 per cent of the energy used by free versions of Android apps is spent serving up ads or tracking and uploading user data” – Jacob Aron, NewSeientist
All We’d Have Do is Say ‘Stop’
Webstock ’12: Matt Haughey – Lessons for a 40 year old hat tip patrick rhone
One of My All-Time Favorite Tech Legends
“Retreating to his garage, he cut a block of wood to fit his shirt pocket. Then he carried it around for months, pretending it was a computer. Was he free for lunch on Wednesday? Hawkins would haul out the block and tap on it as if he were checking his schedule. If he needed a …
Be Your Own Business Cycle
“…to the extent that Etsy, Kickstarter, and other platforms can disintermediate the labor economy, we should be very grateful. Not only are these platforms beneficial technologies of resistance as Reihan emphasizes, they might be generators of macroeconomic robustness.” – Eli Dourado I encourage you to read the whole thing. I especially found the employment = …
Dead Tree
“Print will survive. Books will survive even longer. It’s print as a marker of prestige that’s dying.” – Tim Carmody
Anti-Free
“…avoid mom-and-pop projects that don’t take your money! You might call this the anti-free-software movement.” – Maciej, Pinboard.in
Important!
“The problem isn’t the 100 messages but the 100 new responsibilities represented by the email messages.” – John D. Cook
Where Work Happens
If I’m not in the terminal then I’m not doing real work…I work in a full-screen terminal and don’t like to leave it. The world outside my terminal is filled with distractions, bright colours, and menus. My textual environment is where my real work happens. – Jesse Storimer
Eating the Free Lunch
“GMail is slow because Google can’t afford to spend a lot on it. But people will pay for this. I’d have no problem paying $50 a month. Considering how much time I spend in email, it’s kind of scary to think how much I’d be justified in paying. At least $1000 a month. If I …