All men were created equal so you might as well go with the one with the cash.
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Quote :: From Gaping Void
Poisoned
I remember when I was much younger, first entering the working world, trying to act “normal”.
I failed miserably. I’m sure a lot of you did too.
Thanks to the cartoons and the blog I eventually figured out a way to be functional and prosperous, while still being as quirky as I pleased. If you’re not very good at something, it’s very hard to compete with people who are. I don’t know why the world expects us to even try…
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Quote :: some things need to be believed to be seen. :: Corner Office – Guy Kawasaki – I Want 5 Sentences, Not ‘War and Peace’ – Question – NYTimes.com
A few levels above me, I learned from Steve Jobs that people can change the world. Maybe we didn’t get 95 percent market share, but we did make the world a better place. I learned from Steve that some things need to be believed to be seen. These are powerful lessons — very different from saying we just want to eke out an existence and keep our heads down.
via Corner Office – Guy Kawasaki – I Want 5 Sentences, Not ‘War and Peace’ – Question – NYTimes.com.
Qoute:: ongoing by Tim Bray · Life at Google
The Grand Experiment · That’s what Google is. I mean, why can’t everyone lavish these sort of perks, and this sort of environment, on their employees? Well, because we’re at a weird time in the history of the growth of the Internet. At this (perhaps anomalous) point, the business leverage resulting from the focused application of human intelligence is so high that all these benefits and all this freedom, considered through a pure cold profit-and-loss lens, are cheap at the price. ¶
Can it be replicated? Can it be grown? Can it even be sustained? Nobody knows. But I really hope somebody is studying it closely, because there are lessons here to be learned.
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Quote:: The History of the Honey Trap – By Phillip Knightley | Foreign Policy
How about the morality of it all? Wolf replied for all spymasters when he wrote, “As long as there is espionage, there will be Romeos seducing unsuspecting [targets] with access to secrets.” Yet he maintains: “I was running an intelligence service, not a lonely-hearts club.”
via The History of the Honey Trap – By Phillip Knightley | Foreign Policy.
Quote :: NYRblog – Girls! Girls! Girls! – The New York Review of Books
Why should everything be about “me”? Are my fixations of significance to the Republic? Do my particular needs by definition speak to broader concerns? What on earth does it mean to say that “the personal is political”? If everything is “political,” then nothing is. I am reminded of Gertrude Stein’s Oxford lecture on contemporary literature. “What about the woman question?” someone asked. Stein’s reply should be emblazoned on every college notice board from Boston to Berkeley: “Not everything can be about everything.”
via NYRblog – Girls! Girls! Girls! – The New York Review of Books.
Quote :: There is often no alternative but thinking in terms of a “second” or “third” best. But….
There is often no alternative but thinking in terms of a “second” or “third” best. But that thinking is more soundly directed if done in terms of an image of what the “first” best would be, and how the “second” and “third” bests might be designed to move in the direction of that “first” best, or at least not to be in contradiction with it.
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Quote :: The Blog: Colleges Work to Maintain an Information Deficit About Their Effectiveness :: Ben Casnocha
Sadly true.
Bottom Line: The sorry truth is that “colleges remain indifferent to how well they help students learn, graduate, and succeed in the workplace.” And “like the church…they see themselves as occupying an exalted place in human society, for which they are owed deference and gratitude.” We should demand that all data around the effectiveness of colleges at teaching students be made public and easily searchable so that consumers of higher education can make more informed choices.
via Ben Casnocha: The Blog: Colleges Work to Maintain an Information Deficit About Their Effectiveness.
Quote :: Marginal Revolution: The role of the blogosphere
This reminds me of the experiment they did on how you create solidarity. The answer being find a common enemy. The long form of the quote below is also nice to read. Read it at the linked site.
The role of the blogosphere
New research supports the notion that we fixate on enemies, and inflate their power, as a defense mechanism against generalized anxiety.
The longer article is here.
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Posted by Tyler Cowen on March 10, 2010 at 06:45 AM in Science, Weblogs | Permalink
via Marginal Revolution: The role of the blogosphere.
See I see myself do this a lot. I read something that appeals to who I believe I am and I grab it like a Recovering Alcoholic grabbing his Johnny Walker. I believe I do this, and am probably not alone in doing this because in some ways we have a yearning to validate who we are at least or even only to ourselves. It is that we sometimes grab these things just to say to ourselves we were not wrong. I know this is not a rational way of living. I hope to change this.
If this were the only case where I had this dispiriting result … perhaps I could treat it as an exception. But what I’ve found is every time I did a study like this … there was nobody home in terms of really wanting to know the result.
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