May
6
Johnny Flynn - The Wrote And The Writ (High Quality) (by TheKafkaLover)
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May
5
The best utopian was Saint-Simon. He had these schemes, these triangular schemes. You know how they Saint-Simonians would get dressed? They dressed with the buttons on the back of their suits. That way, you couldn’t dress yourself. You needed someone to help you. So that’s a wonderful situation, where you are creating communities because you can’t get dressed without them.
Mar
26
“Colleges rarely teach the newer programming languages like PHP, Ruby and Python, which have become more popular at young Web companies than older ones like Java, he said. Other skills, like working with large amounts of data and analytics, can be acquired only at a few companies. “There are few programs that actually teach those things, and yet that’s the primary people we hire,” Mr. Lee said.”
In Silicon Valley, a Lack of Engineers - NYTimes.com
Mar
16
“ly stories that keep readers up to date when there isn’t big breaking news—has become redundant because the same stories can now come from so many other sources. This, he says, forces news organisations to choose among three roles: • coverage of breaking news and live events,• deep specialist niche content with analysis and expertise,• the aggregation and verification of other sources of information.”
SXSW blog, day three: Meet the curators | The Economist
Mar
13
David Simon interview
Idea of the protagonist being fated to a particular end and to having certain vulnerabilities inherent in his person… And the idea of hubris! You’re dealing with classical form. And people are very comfortable in the modern world with the Shakespearean, and certainly a lot of the post-Shakespearean, in that it deals with the very modern notion of protagonists struggling against themselves, against the external world, but very much in control of their own destinies. Their choices matter, and their choices can ensure a better outcome. They are affecting their own future when they assert for their own future. That is Hamlet. That is [Eugene] O’Neill. That is [Anton] Chekhov. There’s an awful lot of dramatic tradition that’s rooted in that ideal. The notion that there would be gods up on the hill who might be all-controlling and all-manipulative and all-emotional when it comes to determining people’s fates seems extremely antiquated and superstitious—and an affront to human dignity.
Feb
23
“AVC: You’ve described the mood of the latest record as “spooky.” Was there anything going on in your life that contributed to that?
AM: Yeah, it came from—and this is so cliched and so stupid—but it came from a trip on LSD that I accidentally took. It wasn’t the trip itself, which was full of ridiculous things like the usual hallucinations, but it was the afterglow of it, which seemed to last three or four months. It was quite profound for me because I was back in London walking around places like Hampstead Heath just at the very height of summer, and at the time I was feeling very strange, eerie sensations coming from nature. I almost had the paranoid feeling that it was looking back into me as I was looking at it and just getting the chills from it for about three or four months. That’s the time period when those songs were written. I was listening to sort of spooky old folk music at the same time. Also, it’s from going running through the woods early in the morning—and when you run you start to lose track of who you are and of yourself and your personality dissolves a bit. You find yourself inhabiting the spaces around you in an imaginary way, if that doesn’t sound too pretentious.” The Clientele’s Alasdair MacLean draws inspiration from hangovers and accidental acid trips | Music | Interview | The A.V. Club Madison
AM: Yeah, it came from—and this is so cliched and so stupid—but it came from a trip on LSD that I accidentally took. It wasn’t the trip itself, which was full of ridiculous things like the usual hallucinations, but it was the afterglow of it, which seemed to last three or four months. It was quite profound for me because I was back in London walking around places like Hampstead Heath just at the very height of summer, and at the time I was feeling very strange, eerie sensations coming from nature. I almost had the paranoid feeling that it was looking back into me as I was looking at it and just getting the chills from it for about three or four months. That’s the time period when those songs were written. I was listening to sort of spooky old folk music at the same time. Also, it’s from going running through the woods early in the morning—and when you run you start to lose track of who you are and of yourself and your personality dissolves a bit. You find yourself inhabiting the spaces around you in an imaginary way, if that doesn’t sound too pretentious.” The Clientele’s Alasdair MacLean draws inspiration from hangovers and accidental acid trips | Music | Interview | The A.V. Club Madison
Feb
21
“We can’t tell people not to use this technology at work,” said Brandon Edling, director of workplace technology at NBC Universal. “If we did, they would continue to use it and we would be in the dark about what they do.”
IPad and Other Tablets Make Push Into Corporate World - NYTimes.com
Feb
20
“Fred Wilson’s five rules for product/market fit at startups. I can almost always spot the MBAs pitching me — there’s zero obsession.
Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven.
Hunches come from being a power user of the products in your category and from having a long standing obsession about the problem you are solving.
Domain expertise to the point of obsession is highly correlated with the most successful entrepeneurs in our portfolio.
Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don’t do the obvious thing.
Monetization should be native and improve the experience for users.” Fred’s Five Rules for Product/Market Fit
Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven.
Hunches come from being a power user of the products in your category and from having a long standing obsession about the problem you are solving.
Domain expertise to the point of obsession is highly correlated with the most successful entrepeneurs in our portfolio.
Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don’t do the obvious thing.
Monetization should be native and improve the experience for users.” Fred’s Five Rules for Product/Market Fit
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