This is a photo of Mr. Bates and a baby. I don’t know where I found it but y’all can thank me later for your laughter.
Downton culture is hilarious.
Hero →
This is a really fantastic, well-shot piece. And the resulting portrait definitely wasn’t what I was anticipating.
Amazing.
Do I want the future of education to be tied to Stanford, Harvard, etc.? Absolutely not. I want to see educational disintermediation, in which students and teachers connect directly. With disintermediation, we will need new ways to identify quality teachers and successful students. Just as on the Internet search engines needed to figure out how to identify quality web sites and online market sites needed to figure out how to identify quality sellers. Let’s develop new reputation systems for new teaching methods, rather than try to bolt the old Ivy League brands on to educational innovation.
— Educational Disintermediation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty (via felixsalmon)
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Regarding the Pain of Others - a short animation, narrated by Susan Sontag, on her book of the same name.
Just found what is potentially the best web comic ever: Hark! A Vagrant.
Then vs. Now
2010:
2012:
(New foursquare intro video distances them from the check-in - About Foursquare | via @morganmissen)
I want to live and work in a world where we are actively engaged with our audience, not taking advantage of them. Seeing the people I design for as rich and complex yields many more exciting opportunities than reducing them to a set of eyeballs with a credit card.
— tashwong: ‘Exploiting Users’ (via garychou)
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We care about what happened,” says Aoun, “We don’t care whether the SAP acquisition of SuccessFactors was the most boring acquisition ever, we just care that SAP acquired SuccessFactors.
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Wrong. No one, save maybe a handful of hardcore enterprise software fanatics, read that article because SAP acquired SuccessFactors. We read it because Alexia said it was the most boring acquisition ever.
“I wouldn’t even finish my sentence, and they’d say I should be a nonprofit,” said Cachette, now 26, who was building a startup designed to help companies manage product recalls. “I found it impossible to raise money.” So Cachette made a bold decision: She headed to New York to test the waters of the city’s burgeoning tech scene. The gamble paid off handsomely. Within seven months, Cachette had raised $200,000 from eight investors, garnered features in two top business magazines and was selected to ring the NASDAQ’s opening bell. “The tech scene in New York is just a lot more female friendly,” said Cachette, CEO of ConsumerBell. “You actually have a fair chance here. Investors are willing to look past your gender.”
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I actually don’t mind quite like most of this article, except for the lede. Not believing in your business as a venture fundable business ≠ gender discrimination.
(Golden ladies of NYC: Female entrepreneurs find funding, community in New York - NY Daily News)
