March 2011
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Sad as Hell →
When we self-diagnose, we look for control factors. Sometimes we invent them. The goal of solipsistic anxiety is to find an individual agent that explains our misery. We eliminate possibilities one-by-one in hopes that a single cause remains. This is how people deduce food allergies and come to workable morning routines (no to coffee, yes to tea; don’t transfer trains, walk the extra eight...
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“By 2015, every consumer could make a major feature film with a gadget fitted to...”
– Whoa, dark.
Why America Slept | Reverend Billy & The Church of Life After Shopping
(via soxiam)
this is pretty sad but, ultimately, likely to be pretty true.
horrible natural disasters? watch it happen on youtube.
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Paul Saffo on “The Creator Economy” →
THIS. 100% THIS.
pretty much captures the struggle i’m having right now: i don’t want to get swept away with the remnants of an old, broken model.
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After the game, the king and pawn go into the same...
cthewell:
Italian proverb
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2010 shareholder letter from Warren Buffett →
Cultures self-propagate. Winston Churchill once said, “You shape your houses and then they shape you.” That wisdom applies to businesses as well. Bureaucratic procedures beget more bureaucracy, and imperial corporate palaces induce imperious behavior.
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An Important $7.60
while a pretty small decision, i think this is a relatively important one: i’ve subscribed to get my first newspaper delivered. it’ll be the new york times weekender (friday through sunday of each week. first drop comes tomorrow). i had planned to do this for a year now but nothing really pushed me, until this week.
growing up, my mom would always have three papers coming to the...
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“Of course I care deeply about The Future of Journalism, and I know the upheavals...”
– Bill Keller | All the Aggregation That’s Fit to Aggregate - NYTimes.com
that, folks, is what we call a shot across the bow.