Sasha Dichter: The Generosity Experiment from TED Blog on Vimeo.
Loved watching this video.
Rethrick Construction
And this is the essential broader point–as a programmer you must have a series of wins, every single day. It is the Deus Ex Machina of hacker success. It is what makes you eager for the next feature, and the next after that. And a large team is poison to small wins. The nature of large teams is such that even when you do have wins, they come after long, tiresome and disproportionately many hurdles. And this takes all the wind out of them. Often when I shipped a feature it felt more like relief than euphoria.
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Haven’t had wins lately. Probably why lately work wise I’ve been down a lot.
Too many days saying no…..
Too many days saying no…..
Here’s to the crazy ones
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Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. – Apple Inc.
Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation.
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I’ve been recently toying with the idea of change. I don’t know where this was coming from but I’ve been slowly losing motivation. This is problematic because I am strictly fueled by the desire to do something and when that desire wanes the persons stops doing stuff.
Note To Self 2011 08 29
Get out of the fucking house, fucking right now!!1
Here is a funny 2 video, Job’s life taiwan animated!
Musings 2011 08 28
- I’ve been reading too much manga lately. Read about two hundred chapters of slam dunk and hajime no ippo and the prince of tennis. Haay,, I need to focus!!!
- I have a feeling the younger me would punch myself in the face if he read what I just wrote: “The … is a multi-tiered, service oriented, loosely coupled, highly configurable, adaptive, fault tolerant system.”
- Watching Breaking Bad is like watching The Wire, you sometimes have to pause between episodes because sometimes the action just gets too much and you need time to process things.
- Hope people are safe from Mina and Irene.
Migraines 2011 08 21
Spending the weekend immobilized because of my migraines is not my idea of a weekend.Fuck it I’m going to the mall my head be damned.
rePost::Captain America: The First Avenger Review by Nordling of AICN
Color me excited!
When I review a film, I like to sleep on it before I write it up. Sometimes that’s not possible, such as a press screening the night before a film opens. But I think I’m a better reviewer once I’ve had a sleep on a movie – I find that it’s easier for me to look at a film with that distance, and if in the morning I still like what I saw then it gets a positive review. Reviews of films right after seeing them tend to skew hyperbolic because I’m so eager to put down my thoughts and get them out. So you should take that into consideration when reading this. I’m under no time pressure to write this review, although I like to have my reviews out by opening day. But I really felt the need to share this one, because I’m just that excited over CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER, which shoots to the upper levels of superhero films. In fact, I’ll probably make bold statements throughout this review, like “It equals THE INCREDIBLES and SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE in sheer filmic joy” or “CAPTAIN AMERICA is the RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK of superhero movies.” Again, take them how you like. I’m confident I’ll feel the same way in the morning.
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SG Appreciation
There is something to be said when some of the most tense moments involve only one, even none of the main characters, when you start to question which teamup is better or how you much you love how much effort the Secret Garden team put in the camera work and how such a simple story can move you so much. I haven’t finished it yet but I am thinking that it’s better than Kim Sam Soon ,Coffee Prince, and Money War, and is probably going to either tie or replace my other Korean Drama favorites.