May 2012
19 posts
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“1.) You basically have to be willing to devote your life to journalism if you...”
– BuzzFeed’s Michael Hastings with advice for young journalists on his Reddit IAMA today.
Now, my version — for young engineers.
1.) You basically have to be willing to devote your life to engineering if you want to break in. Treat it like it’s medical school or law school.
2.) When...
“Just today, a stranger came to my door claiming he was here to unclog a bathroom...”
– Helen Walters:
Talk about a brilliant opening to a book. I just embarked on security technologist Bruce Schneier’s latest book, Liars & Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive. We all need to think clearly about trust in all its many forms, but I’m honestly most excited that...
Schizopolis: Nytimes_ebooks →
harrisj:
Like a large swath of the Internet, I have become increasingly obsessed with the nonsensical tweets of the @horse_ebooksspambot twitter account (if you don’t know what I’m talking about, here are some links: Know Your Meme; The Ballad of @Horse_ebooks; The Human Being Behind @Horse_ebooks; and the Web Comic). I also love the@nytimes twitter account, which is now 5 years old and over 5...
When an analyst tells me he wants to learn...
wheninfinance:
Credit: M/SF/IBD
Haha.
“Female bosses are less likely to make jokes in the boardrood because they are...”
– Female bosses ‘less funny in the boardroom’ - Telegraph (via Findings.com)
I fully believe this.
“But it’s a touchy situation. Schuman has to maintain the appearance of...”
– (Up from the streets: Scott Schuman - GQ)
“So what does this new world of news look like? It looks like Instapaper, or...”
– (On the News - Mandy Brown’s A Working Library)
“To the Editor:
Maureen Dowd (“Seeking Original Bliss,” column, May 13)...”
– (Marrying a President - New York Times)
WHEN ALL OF THE PEOPLE ON THE "FUTURE OF MEDIA"...
editorrealtalk:
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next...”
– And another because I can’t resist.
(Little Gidding - T.S. Eliot)
“This is the use of memory:
For liberation—not less of love but expanding
Of...”
– Little Gidding is such a treat. My high school sent us off into the world with Prufrock’s “time for all the works and days of hands / That lift and drop a question on your plate,” which, I suppose, had its place in a romantic way. But I think Gidding could have been just as...
April 2012
15 posts
“We need a tech industry that values history, perspective, and a long-term view....”
– Anil Dash
(WHY YOU CAN’T TRUST TECH PRESS TO TEACH YOU ABOUT THE TECH INDUSTRY - Dashes)
“The internet has changed who the gatekeepers are. For much of recent American...”
– Wonks and Blogs | Via Meadia (via ayjay)
“If this paradigm weren’t enough on its own, you will have a bucket full of...”
– A beautiful, haunting letter about success and its demons. A ‘Letter to a Young NFL Draft Pick,’ of sorts.
(Nate Jackson - Buzzfeed)
“There’s an education bubble, which is, like the others, psychosocial. There’s a...”
– i don’t always agree with Peter but he’s spot on about education
A Conversation with Peter Thiel - The American Interest Magazine (via pegobry)
“Sadly, Meebo is just the latest in a long line of tools that publishers use...”
– How To Kill That Awful Meebo Bar Forever (via emptyage)
I think I’m contractually obligated not to giggle, but… alas, I giggled.
Watchthingsthatscarelaurenleto:
ubernyc:
Feast your eyes on Uber NYC’s newest project: UberBYTES. UberBYTES is a video series that invites you to join us on an up close and personal Uber ride with featured guests. Our UberBYTES premiere features an exclusive interview with Lauren Leto, the co-founder of Texts from Last Night, as well as Banters.
My friend Andrea is starting an awesome interview...
“A product is not a set of screens — it’s the stories those screens enable.”
– Story-centered Design: Hacking Your Brain To Think Like A User is a great story by Google Ventures partner, Braden Kowitz. In it, he outlines his process for managing the complexity inherent in interaction design projects, and describes how he has moed away from a screen-based approach to one that...
“Despite the success at her own campus, Dr. Klawe continues her crusade to lift...”
– (Giving Women the Access Code - The New York Times)
March 2012
23 posts
“Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof.”
–
German idiom I overheard last weekend which translates to “life is not a pony farm.”
‘Why a pony farm?’ I asked a German friend. He said he wasn’t sure but I’m just going to assume pony farms represent the pinnacle of Deutsch easy living. Then I asked why don’t we hear about get-ponyfarm-quick...
“When an entity exists in an ecosystem, and acts within that ecosystem in a way...”
– Gamasutra - News - Turning down Zynga: Why I left after the $210M Omgpop buy (via felixsalmon)
Knight News Challenge: Connecting the global... →
newschallenge:
1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]
Connect and grow the international network of journalists, designers and developers involved with Hacks/Hackers, both online and offline.
A thousand times yes.
“Lyne moved to San Francisco in 1975 in search of the next thing. She found it in...”
– Me, too.
(The many lives of Susan Lyne - CNN.com)
Bye Bye Baby - Ornette
“Huge numbers of middle-class people are now able to make a living specializing...”
– there is no great stagnation, in the NYTimes (via cacioppo)
Was just reading this, too. Died at:
Contrary to popular belief, the revival of craft manufacturing isn’t just a fad for Brooklyn hipsters. (Woehrle resists the term. His beard is too short, he says.)
That he resists being called...
“I’ve always thought of kottke.org as a place where people come to find...”
– (kottke.org redesign, 2012 version - kottke.org)
“People tend to sit where there are places to sit.” - William Whyte in The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
When I start a YouTube video and there's no...
whatshouldwecallme:
Best new Tumblr.