The best interface is no interface | Cooper Journal “It’s time for us to move beyond screen-based thinking. Because when we think in screens, we design based upon a model that is inherently unnatural, inhumane, and has diminishing returns. It requires a great deal of talent, money and time to make these systems somewhat usable, […]
Monthly Archives: March 2013
Milosz as California Poet
Milosz as California Poet “The passionate poet who longed for detachment, a more objective place from which to see himself, found it on the Pacific coast. Distance, emotional or geographic, is hard to come by in Poland, where he was an insider. No one is an insider in California.”
Percy and Sagan in the Cosmos
Percy and Sagan in the Cosmos "Looked at in one way…Phil Donahue and Carl Sagan have very little in common; looked at in Percy’s way, they serve an almost identical function as guides who gently distract us from attention to how we’re being formed and how we might be formed differently."
How Difficult It Is to Live
How Difficult It Is to Live Mark Levine on Philip Levine, US Poet Laureate
Blog: Marginal Revolution: Jeffrey Sachs on Paul Krugman
Jeffrey Sachs on Paul Krugman by Tyler Cowen Marginal Revolution
Blog: ScienceNOW: Physicists Discover a Whopping 13 New Solutions to Three-Body Problem
Physicists Discover a Whopping 13 New Solutions to Three-Body Problem by (author unknown) ScienceNOW
Blog: A’s Farm: Exclusive: A’s Director of Baseball Operations Farhan Zaidi Talks Top Prospects with A’s Farm – Part 2
Exclusive: A’s Director of Baseball Operations Farhan Zaidi Talks Top Prospects with A’s Farm – Part 2 by Athletics Farm A's Farm
Blog: FanGraphs Baseball: Sloan Analytics: Farhan Zaidi on A’s Analytics
Sloan Analytics: Farhan Zaidi on A’s Analytics by David Laurila FanGraphs Baseball
Blog: I Love Charts: stevekovach: Google at its best. More on BuzzFeed.
stevekovach: Google at its best. More on BuzzFeed. by joberholtzer I Love Charts
YouTube: Humans Yelling Like Goats Yelling Like Humans
Humans Yelling Like Goats Yelling Like Humans oldepayphone
Blog: The American Conservative » Rod Dreher: Entitlement Vs. Responsibility
Entitlement Vs. Responsibility by Rod Dreher The American Conservative » Rod Dreher
YouTube: Ash Beckham at Ignite Boulder 20
Ash Beckham at Ignite Boulder 20 igniteboulder
Blog: A’s Farm: Exclusive: A’s Director of Baseball Operations Farhan Zaidi Talks Top Prospects with A’s Farm – Part 1
Exclusive: A’s Director of Baseball Operations Farhan Zaidi Talks Top Prospects with A’s Farm – Part 1 by Athletics Farm A's Farm
Blog: Svbtle Featured: Dirt Road, Gravel Road, and Paved Road Managers
Dirt Road, Gravel Road, and Paved Road Managers by Bryan Power Svbtle Featured
YouTube: TEDx Duke- Dan Ariely on Self Control
TEDx Duke- Dan Ariely on Self Control TEDxTalks
The Art of Fiction No. 64, Kurt Vonnegut
The Art of Fiction No. 64, Kurt Vonnegut “One of my students wrote a story about a nun who got a piece of dental floss stuck between her lower left molars, and who couldn’t get it out all day long. I thought that was wonderful. The story dealt with issues a lot more important than […]
Blog: Ben Casnocha: Growth by Learning: Does Progress Accelerate with Mastery?
Growth by Learning: Does Progress Accelerate with Mastery? by Ben Casnocha Ben Casnocha
Blog: Via Meadia: Blue Civil War: The Battle for California
Blue Civil War: The Battle for California by Walter Russell Mead Via Meadia
Blog: Svbtle Featured: APPLE: My Key to Success
APPLE: My Key to Success by Mitchell Hashimoto Svbtle Featured