November 2011
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The Humble Bundle, Pay What You Want for Awesome... →
I put this on my linked list back in April and somehow never shared it. Now I’m glad I forgot because six months later and it’s still going strong. Neat concept, I hope to see more of it.
New iPhone 4S Commercials →
I just want to :)
(Via John Gruber.)
October 2011
7 posts
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Mona Simpson's Eulogy for Steve Jobs →
Damn these human emotions.
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Juggling
Working at a startup is like juggling.
Every day you take a deep breath and throw a whole bunch of new balls in the air and pray to god they just don’t come back down on fire.
Mind you, they do all come back down one way or another. And then you throw them back up the next day, slightly more sure that they won’t come back down on fire than you were the previous day.
After a...
The Limits of Human Rationality →
Jonah Lehrer, writing for The New Yorker on Daniel Kahneman’s new book, Thinking, Fast and Slow:
It’s impossible to overstate the influence of Kahneman and Tversky. Like Darwin, they helped to dismantle a longstanding myth of human exceptionalism. Although we’d always seen ourselves as rational creatures — this was our Promethean gift — it turns out that human reason is rather feeble, easily...
Be Yourself and Work As Hard As You Can to Bring... →
John Lilly on Steve Jobs’ Legacy:
That’s it, I think — that’s the biggest message from Jobs’ life. Don’t try to be like Steve. Don’t try to be like anyone.
Reminds me of Bruce Lee:
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
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Dan Frommer on The Apple-fication Of Everything →
Prescient.
Font Hipsters →
John Gruber:
We criticize Android for being poorly designed because it’s poorly designed. We favor iOS because it’s better designed. That’s it.
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'29 Years Old And Hearing Myself for The 1st... →
This video. I’m speechless.