May 2009
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The Real Time Web is a Beautiful Distraction →
syntheticpubes: These media play off of a very real psychological factor known as operant conditioning, the addictive need to return over and over in hopes of a reward. The ability to pay attention, focus and strategically disconnect will be a winning discipline of the next generation. yup. 
May 27th
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the .45 →
quite simply, stuff that won’t waste your time. pruned from over 500 others.  great for anyone in need of new reading or those looking for a curated, authoritative starting point on the web.
May 25th
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The Case for Working With Your Hands →
When we praise people who do work that is straightforwardly useful, the praise often betrays an assumption that they had no other options. We idealize them as the salt of the earth and emphasize the sacrifice for others their work may entail. Such sacrifice does indeed occur — the hazards faced by a lineman restoring power during a storm come to mind. But what if such work answers as well to a...
May 24th
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May 23rd
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How do you do concrete interviews for... →
Nontechnical interviews and weak signals for competence Now let’s compare this to nontechnical interviews, which, in my expertise at least, generate weak signals for competence: Almost every interview process I’ve ever been involved with, whether I’m the interviewer or the interviewee, seems to lack the level of rigor that most engineers go through. Why is that? I imagine that much of it has to...
May 18th
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Wolfram|Alpha →
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May 15th
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May 8th
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“The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in...”
– Milton Glaser (via syntheticpubes)
May 5th
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May 4th
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NPRbackstory: Finding value in news archives... →
It was from an automated Twitter account called NPRbackstory, a project by a man named Keith Hopper. Keith is a project manager at Public Interactive, a division of NPR, and NPRbackstory is an intriguing experiment in getting value out of one of the most overlooked assets any established news organization has: its archives. i’ll write about this more, in-depth, on OTD this week. however,...
May 4th
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May 2nd
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May 1st