“Think about how you’d feel if a guy sat down at your lunch table one afternoon when you were interviewing an applicant for a vice-president’s position and tried to sell the two of you a car, and wouldn’t go away.” – @Man. I don’t read Doc as much as I used to. Which means that …
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A Tachyon Walks into a Bar
or out. I can never tell which.
Finding The Best Water Skier in Luxembourg
“I’m interested in the small worlds, the small worlds that make life worth living.” – Keith Kahn-Harris Brilliant project. Just brilliant. “I will travel to a number of places to investigate experts and champions in small fields in small countries. As the title of the book suggests, I will start with a chapter on water …
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First Answer the Question for Yourself
“It was terribly frustrating because I remember I started with, ‘Who am I? Why am I here?’ and I never got back to that because there was never an opportunity for me to explain my life to people” – Admiral James Bond Stockdale
Towards a Longer Horizon
“…there’s an awful lot of effort being expended that is just never going to result in meaningful, truly disruptive innovation. And I think that’s a problem.” – Max Levchin
Gulp.
“To risk sounding like a broken record, why support a company that treats you like a criminal? I choose not to.” – jdeslip
Uncapping Innovation
” I believe that open access to technology breeds future innovation and that this innovation literally defines us as culture. As evidence, I believe the success of the most important innovation of our time, the open internet, is a direct result of the availability of the open-source standards such as html and open platforms like …
With just 1 message a day…
… The Listserve has renewed my faith in the Internet.
Towards a Reconnected Future
“…it is not unfathomable to imagine a prospective society that finds the tic itself [compulsive mobile gadget use] to be as abhorrent and vile as today’s culture does cigarettes. In that putative future, smartphone users would be relegated to special rooms in airports, where passers by would shake their heads disapprovingly at the grey faces …
What if the function of a local newspaper was…
…to create and maintain digital production and distribution tools for an audience to inform itself? “Content production tools scale. Social media tools scale. Topical communities can scale (depending on the topic). Local news does not scale.” – Robert Niles