Steve Jobs’s Real Genius : The New Yorker -
I don’t often share Steve Jobs stuff, but I always read it, and this is my favorite that I’ve come across so far
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Stories about aging have traditionally focused on the need for graceful accommodation. The recommended solution to diminishing vigor and impending death was resignation coupled with an effort to achieve closure in practical affairs and personal relationships. Given that nothing could be done to prevent or retard aging, this focus made sense. Rather than fretting about the inevitable, one could aim for peace of mind.
Today we face a different situation.
” —The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant, by Nick Bostrom
Journal of Medical Ethics, 2005, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp 273-277
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Mr. Rogers was the best human to ever live.
The Nine Billion names of God by Arthur C. Clarke
Deviating from our main focus (Alright Dogs), I present an Alright Cat. From Animal Tracks, courtesy of the Today Show.
(Source: animaltracks.today.com)
Business Time.
“…I feel something start within me, something that leaves its resting-place and attempts to rise, something that has been embedded like an anchor at a great depth; I do not know yet what it is, but I can feel it mounting slowly; I can measure the resistance, I can hear the echo of great spaces traversed.” — The Cookie
(Source: haverford.edu)
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After hearing a story about Foursquare’s co-founder, Dennis Crowley, walking into a press event in athletic wear and eating a banana, I developed a theory that bubbles might be predicted by fashion: when tech founders can’t be bothered to appear businesslike, the power has shifted too much in their favor. Believe it or not, this goes deep into the interior mentality of the engineer, which is very truth-oriented. When you’re dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn’t, no matter how good of a salesman you are. So engineers not only don’t care about the surface appearance, but they view attempts to kind of be fake on the surface as fundamentally dishonest.
(Source: The New York Times)