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"1: Do not feel absolutely certain of anything. 2: Do not think it worthwhile to produce belief by..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:44:59 -0700

“1: Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
2: Do not think it worthwhile to produce belief by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light.
3: Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
4: When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
5: Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found.
6: Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.
7: Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
8: Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.
9: Be scrupulously truthful, even when truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.”

- Bertrand Russell’s Ten Commandments for Living in a Healthy Democracy | Open Culture

"The most effective way to move toward change is to act like you’ve already achieved it. Don’t worry..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:20:21 -0700

“The most effective way to move toward change is to act like you’ve already achieved it. Don’t worry about playing mind-games with yourself. Don’t worry about affirmations. The way to become a fit person is to act like one. I’ve always found that the hardest part of exercising—the only hard part, really—is putting on my sneakers. Once they’re on, there’s pretty much a 100 percent chance of getting some form of workout done. Why else would I have these shoes on?”

- How Real Life Change Happens | Psychology Today

(via Douglas Rushkoff - Blog - Present Shock- explained in...

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:24:10 -0700

(via Douglas Rushkoff - Blog - Present Shock- explained in 15 minutes)

“Media creates time”

"When there’s no linear time, how is a person supposed to figure out what’s going on? There’s no..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:12:26 -0700

““When there’s no linear time, how is a person supposed to figure out what’s going on? There’s no story, no narrative to explain why things are the way things are. Previously distinct causes and effects collapse into one another. There’s no time between doing something and seeing the result. Instead the results begin accumulating and influencing us before we’ve even completed an action. And there’s so much information coming in at once from so many different sources that there’s simply no way to trace the plot over time”. That’s the hum I’m talking about. And I mention this because I think it’s having an effect on all of us. I think it’s having an effect on our culture, and I think it’s having an effect on movies. How they’re made, how they’re sold, how they perform.”

- Blog - Steven Soderberg Describes His Own Present Shock — www.rushkoff.com — Readability

"Google’s music service could fail to capture market share from the big players and still be a..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 10:44:29 -0700

“Google’s music service could fail to capture market share from the big players and still be a success. That’s because delivering music and new accounts is yet another way for Google to amass personal, intimate details about its hundreds of millions of users — information that enables it to better target ads.”

- Google ‘All Access,’ The Search Giant’s ‘Spotify Killer,’ Is All About Data — www.huffingtonpost.com — Readability

Interesting to consider what it’s like to create products that solely exist as an ulterior motive. Maybe every product at the end of the day has an ulterior motive?

"Panda Bear has called it the best concert he’s ever seen. As the tour’s official..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:02:40 -0700

“Panda Bear has called it the best concert he’s ever seen. As the tour’s official photographer, DJ Falcon got to experience around 40 shows from an enviable viewpoint. He remembers one in particular, at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado: “There were all these handicapped people with their families in the front, and they were so happy,“ he says, a trace of awe in his voice. “At some point, I was wondering if they were going to stand up and start walking, like a miracle!””

- Cover Story: Daft Punk | Features | Pitchfork

Still #1 for me too.

"I collect vinyl as if it was treasure… as if one day, when I’m gone, someone will..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 15:39:43 -0700

“I collect vinyl as if it was treasure… as if one day, when I’m gone, someone will uncover all these pieces and say, “wow, I’ve been looking for this gem for years!” …. instead of just tossing it all out into the trash… you know… how it will actually happen…”

- Headphone Commute

naomijade: moredarkthanshark: Brian Eno, Michael Stipe, David...

Mon, 13 May 2013 15:03:31 -0700

naomijade:

moredarkthanshark:

Brian Eno, Michael Stipe, David Byrne and Laurie Anderson at The Kitchen’s gala benefit for Eno in New York on May 7, 2013

this photo makes me happy

That’s a lot of brainpower in one frame.

"Google Glass is about taking everything in your world and uploading it to Google. It’s about using..."

Sun, 12 May 2013 21:20:28 -0700

“Google Glass is about taking everything in your world and uploading it to Google. It’s about using the Internet more, and it’s about pulling more parts of your life into the Internet. So instead of using the Internet as a utility to make your life richer and be less interrupted, it’s interrupting your life more to make the Internet richer with all the stuff from you life.”

- Disconnected: My year without the Internet - CNN.com

"There’s a Wired post that [Nicholas Negroponte, founder of MIT Media Lab] wrote a long time ago..."

Sun, 12 May 2013 18:40:59 -0700

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There’s a Wired post that [Nicholas Negroponte, founder of MIT Media Lab] wrote a long time ago about how surfing the Internet was a fad and after a while we would all get back to work. The Internet would be super utilitarian — we’d get what we need then we could be productive and do actual stuff.

But surfing the Internet was not a fad. That is the primary way we use it, and it’s rarely productive.

The Internet wants to be surfed. It takes a proactive approach to actually be a productive person.

”

- Disconnected: My year without the Internet - CNN.com

"The only way email ever truly gets “fixed” is to be completely re-imagined. It doesn’t need a paint..."

Sun, 12 May 2013 16:00:30 -0700

“The only way email ever truly gets “fixed” is to be completely re-imagined. It doesn’t need a paint job, it needs a demolition job.”

- Email, Still A Sonofabitch | TechCrunch

"In our exclusive TODAY Moms survey of 7,000 U.S. mothers, 42 percent said that they sometimes suffer..."

Fri, 10 May 2013 12:09:00 -0700

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In our exclusive TODAY Moms survey of 7,000 U.S. mothers, 42 percent said that they sometimes suffer from Pinterest stress – the worry that they’re not crafty or creative enough. Symptoms include staying up until 3 a.m. clicking through photos of exquisite hand-made birthday party favors even though you’ll end up buying yours at the dollar store, or sobbing quietly into a burnt mess of expensive ingredients that were supposed to be adorable bunny cookies for the school bake sale. “It tricks you into thinking that everyone is baking their own bread.

Pinterest is largely a site of unrealized dreams.”

”

- ‘Pinterest stress’ afflicts nearly half of moms, survey says - TODAY.com

Despite these negative effects, I think it’s also a great place to capture one’s aspirations and useful as a mood boarding tool for designers.

"A few months lata I saw his infamous Coachella meltdown, and I just thought “Oh, Ariel…”. Totally..."

Sun, 05 May 2013 18:40:28 -0700

“

A few months lata I saw his infamous Coachella meltdown, and I just thought “Oh, Ariel…”. Totally got his vibe after seeing the shit that went down in London, everyone was constantly trying to get something from him. And I don’t think people ever think about this side of touring, the communication exhaustion it entails. Drugs are not the reason but the solution.

Best fans are those who just give you the silent thumbs up.

”

- NOTES ON SEXISM AND FAN (UN)CULTURE IN UNDERGROUND MUSIC

"I think it’s important to be able to fall down when you do a barbell exercise so that you have to..."

Sun, 05 May 2013 16:00:18 -0700

“I think it’s important to be able to fall down when you do a barbell exercise so that you have to make sure you don’t. The balance aspects of the movement are critical to the training effect, and when this is removed you’re left with a Glorified Exercise.”

- T NATION | Rippetoe Throws Down

"Technology is at its best when it is invisible. I am convinced that technology is of greatest..."

Sat, 04 May 2013 21:20:14 -0700

“Technology is at its best when it is invisible. I am convinced that technology is of greatest benefit when it displaces the deleterious, unnatural, alienating, and, most of all, inherently fragile preceding technology. Many of the modern applications that have managed to survive today came to disrupt the deleterious effect of the philistinism of modernity, particularly the 20th century: the large multinational bureaucratic corporation with “empty suits” at the top; the isolated family (nuclear) in a one-way relationship with the television set, even more isolated thanks to car-designed suburban society; the dominance of the state, particularly the militaristic nation-state, with border controls; the destructive dictatorship on thought and culture by the established media; the tight control on publication and dissemination of economic ideas by the charlatanic economics establishment; large corporations that tend to control their markets now threatened by the Internet; pseudo-rigor that has been busted by the Web; and many others. You no longer have to “press 1 for English” or wait in line for a rude operator to make bookings for your honeymoon in Cyprus. In many respects, as unnatural as it is, the Internet removed some of the even more unnatural elements around us. For instance, the absence of paperwork makes bureaucracy — something modernistic — more palatable than it was in the days of paper files. With a little bit of luck a computer virus will wipe out all records and free people from their past mistakes.”

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The future will not be cool — www.salon.com — Readability

(via In Pursuit of Happiness - NYTimes.com)

Sat, 04 May 2013 18:40:22 -0700

(via In Pursuit of Happiness - NYTimes.com)

"For the fast-growing secularist/humanist movement, criticism of religion isn’t a demonstration of..."

Sat, 04 May 2013 16:00:16 -0700

“For the fast-growing secularist/humanist movement, criticism of religion isn’t a demonstration of bigotry but a struggle against it. To us, bigotry against bigotry isn’t bigotry, and intolerance of intolerance isn’t intolerance.”

- Ali A. Rizvi

"You think being honest immunizes you from the consequences of what you say. Remember Paul Simon’s..."

Sat, 04 May 2013 13:20:01 -0700

“You think being honest immunizes you from the consequences of what you say. Remember Paul Simon’s lyrics, “There’s no tenderness beneath your honesty.” So maybe it’s not that important to win an argument, even if you “know” you’re right. Sometimes it’s more important to try a little tenderness.”

- Life Lessons with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - Kareem on What He Wished He’d Known - Esquire

Tony Schwartz: The Myths of the Overworked Creative (by 99U)

Sat, 04 May 2013 10:40:19 -0700

Tony Schwartz: The Myths of the Overworked Creative (by 99U)

"If a picture is worth 1000 words, a prototype is worth 1000 meetings"

Sat, 04 May 2013 08:00:16 -0700

“If a picture is worth 1000 words, a prototype is worth 1000 meetings”

- Twitter / iamctodd: “If a picture is worth 1000 …