February 2012
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“Nowadays, as it enlists viewers to build the pathways for its infrastructure,...”
– Jonathan Beller - The Cinematic Mode of Production via pieto\the\media\ecologist
this is your “attention economy.”
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Risk as feelings thesis →
bobulate:
Stanford economist George Loewenstein on how the brain makes decisions and something called the Risk as Feelings thesis:
He argued we overreact emotionally to new risks (which are often low-probability events), and underreact to those risks that are familiar (although these events are more likely to occur). So, as Loewenstein explains, “this is why people seemed to initially overreact...
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“Our primary goal is to be able to work on projects in the way we want to. We are...”
– joe caterini, managing director - zero point zero talking about ZPZ’s principles in How To Keep TV Real The Anthony Bourdain Way
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silver skin.
i’ve spent the majority of the morning (since ~4a) catching-up on a months worth of back-log. out of 200 feeds, maybe i focused on 20. dumped the rest. i’ve shared, am sharing and talked about the items i feel matter the most. the ones you get to when you cut away the silver skin. this is becoming a habit that i don’t mind. two more:
cycles of invention and...
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The War on Context →
i’ve been looking for this argument for about a month now. it succinctly formalizes my feelings without making me, outwardly, sound like a curmudgeon.
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The Two Things game →
bobulate:
Economist Glen Whitman on The Two Things:
A few years ago, I was chatting with a stranger in a bar. When I told him I was an economist, he said, “Ah. So… what are the Two Things about economics?” “Huh?” I cleverly replied. “You know, the Two Things. For every subject, there are really only two things you really need to know. Everything else is the application of those two things, or...
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“The implicit, underlying assumption of much of journalism is that reality isn’t...”
– Adam Mathes (via syntheticpubes)
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“Our two teachers, pain and fear”
– Magnificent Ruin
this sums up 2012 so far.
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Watchrubinrecommends:
I’ve been using this AeroPress one cup system for over a year and half now and thanks to this step by step Stumptown tutorial I’m now getting the best cup of coffee out of it that I can. It’s a very inexpensive device that doesn’t take a lot of work to clean and maintain. It comes with a year supply (or more if you reuse them) of filters. Check it out if you’re looking for a...
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