“…each time I optimize for happiness instead of money, I have accidentally increased my financial returns as well.” – Pete Forde
Category Archives: Modern Living
And I’ve never had anything pierced
“Also, I still haven’t personally found a practical reason for the implant.” – Dan Berg
At least do the food justice
“Chef David Bouley often ushers people he sees snapping his plates back into the kitchen so they can get a picture on a marble background with proper lighting. He’s even working on a system that will allow users to choose from an array of digital images of his dishes that they can send to their …
Everything You Pack Will be Lost
thanks kk
No Sale
I don’t know about you, but I can’t imagine founding a company for freedom and control, and then downgrading to a job — a job YOU CAN’T LEAVE. It’s the opposite of everything about the dream of owning your own business. – Amy Hoy
Not an Upgrade
“Each new upgrade brings more suckage into your computer. It makes itself slower. It adds three or four more capabilities you’ll never need.” – Farhad Manjoo
iChindogu
“So this expensive gadget doesn’t solve your real problems, but look how user-friendly it is” – bad_user “Chindōgu is the Japanese art of inventing ingenious everyday gadgets that, on the face of it, seem like an ideal solution to a particular problem. However, chindōgu has a distinctive feature: anyone actually attempting to use one of …
Time is an Illusion
“The idea was born of a conversation with a friend about how much our wanting to know the time was useful and how much was just an addiction to some bit of knowledge that didn’t help us — something that made us feel better prepared, but didn’t make us any wiser.” – Erik Kennedy
Jim’s Paleo Media Diet
“I just believe that my brain is maladapted to the networked Skinner Box, so I want out. My brain is plastic, but not in a sufficiently adaptive way. In fact it’s probably adapting just fine, but in a fashion that creates a destructive feed forward loop.” – Jim Stogdill
Out
“The Internet is awesome. But it will be awesome tomorrow, too. Get offline one night a week (meaning, from 5pm until you go to sleep don’t touch the Internet in anyway on computer, phone, TV, nothing) and do something you need to get done.” – Colin Devroe