Monthly Archives: May 2012

YouTube: How Will You Measure Your Life?

How Will You Measure Your Life? forbes

Blog: Ezra Klein: Have California schools cracked the code on obesity?

Have California schools cracked the code on obesity? Sarah Kliff, Ezra Klein

Alex Payne — What Is and Is Not A Technology Company

Alex Payne — What Is and Is Not A Technology Company “You are a technology company if … your product – the thing you make money by selling – consists of applied scientific knowledge that solves concrete problems and enables other endeavors, you are a technology company.”

www.ltnbd.se/tidtabeller/pdf/ltnbd_linje_501_3.pdf

www.ltnbd.se/tidtabeller/pdf/ltnbd_linje_501_3.pdf Kiruna – Jukkasjärvi summer bus schedule line 501

Blog: kottke.org: Abraham Lincoln invented Facebook

Abraham Lincoln invented Facebook Jason Kottke, kottke.org

The Mysterious Case of the Vanishing Genius | Psychology Today

The Mysterious Case of the Vanishing Genius | Psychology Today Margie Profet generated solutions to seemingly intractable puzzles of biology. Then she disappeared.

Blog: Rod Dreher: Same-Sex Marriage & Post-Christianity

Same-Sex Marriage & Post-Christianity Rod Dreher, Rod Dreher

New like on tumblr: skykalkman

Liked on Tumblr: skykalkman

Inside the Political Brain

Inside the Political Brain

The perils of rebuilding: how “the right way” in theory can be absolutely the wrong way in real life | Mariners Blog | The Seattle Times

The perils of rebuilding: how “the right way” in theory can be absolutely the wrong way in real life | Mariners Blog | The Seattle Times “They spent years playing irrelevant baseball seasons while they rebuilt “the right way” and chased fans off. Fans actually paying to go see games want to believe they are […]

Blog: Barking up the wrong tree: If the best art is done because of passion, not money, how can we reward creativity?

If the best art is done because of passion, not money, how can we reward creativity? (author unknown), Barking up the wrong tree

Blog: Seth’s Blog: Avoiding false metrics

Avoiding false metrics Seth Godin, Seth's Blog

The American Scholar: Toys and Joys – William Deresiewicz

The American Scholar: Toys and Joys – William Deresiewicz “These are the things that make our lives worth living? When I think about what really makes me happy, what I really crave, I come up with a very different list: concentrated, purposeful work, especially creative work; being with people I love; feeling like I’m part […]

Blog: Rod Dreher: On Loving Japan

On Loving Japan Rod Dreher, Rod Dreher

Rod Dreher » Paris, New York, and Disneyworld

Rod Dreher » Paris, New York, and Disneyworld “For me, I told Hannah, ‘Paris’ is both a place and a way of seeing the world. It means a particular way of approaching beauty, and of living as a kind of art. It is the belief that beauty, however humbly expressed, can and should be a […]

Lasting value – Marco.org

Lasting value – Marco.org “None of the software I write today is likely to still be in use in thirty years, but if I write a truly great and timeless article, that could be valuable to people for much longer.”

Welcome to the Era of Design – Forbes

Welcome to the Era of Design – Forbes As Michael Eisner, former CEO of Disney, once said, “A brand is a living entity—and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures.”

Blog: Brain Pickings: A 5-Step Technique for Producing Ideas circa 1939

A 5-Step Technique for Producing Ideas circa 1939 Maria Popova, Brain Pickings

Twitter: @espiekermann

espiekermann Complex problems have simple, easy to understand, wrong answers.