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Monthly Archives: May 2013
Inside Pixar’s Leadership
2013.05.30 – 18:02
Inside Pixar’s Leadership “It’s better to fix problems than to prevent them. And the natural tendency for managers is to try and prevent error and over plan things.”
Blog: Ta-Nehisi Coates : The Atlantic: A Religion of Colorblind Policy
2013.05.30 – 08:52
A Religion of Colorblind Policy by Ta-Nehisi Coates Ta-Nehisi Coates : The Atlantic
Blog: The Dish: Should The Government Buy Kidneys?
2013.05.29 – 11:52
Should The Government Buy Kidneys? by Andrew Sullivan The Dish
Blog: Programming in the 21st Century: Flickr’s Redesign is a Series of Evolutionary Changes
2013.05.27 – 22:22
Flickr's Redesign is a Series of Evolutionary Changes by James Hague Programming in the 21st Century
How the New York Times can fight BuzzFeed & reinvent its future — Tech News and Analysis
2013.05.27 – 20:34
How the New York Times can fight BuzzFeed & reinvent its future — Tech News and Analysis
Review of Summa Technologiae by Stanislaw Lem
2013.05.27 – 09:01
Review of Summa Technologiae by Stanislaw Lem "Intelligence carries conscious beings to a point where their theories are no longer useful to them, where hard-won objectivity drowns in a glut of complexity […] So creative work displaces analysis, and science becomes performative and playful."
Learning From Los Gatos — The Peer Society
2013.05.26 – 17:46
Learning From Los Gatos — The Peer Society Why Silicon Valley is not the second coming of the Gilded Age
Review of ‘Permanent Present Tense’ by Suzanne Corkin
2013.05.25 – 15:01
Review of ‘Permanent Present Tense’ by Suzanne Corkin “He showed that declarative memory – the storage and retrieval of facts – was dependent on the hippocampus. Non-declarative memory – ‘knowing how’, rather than ‘knowing that’ – functioned independently of the temporal lobe structures he had lost.”
Blog: Ezra Klein: These 31 charts will destroy your faith in humanity
2013.05.24 – 13:07
These 31 charts will destroy your faith in humanity by Brad Plumer Ezra Klein
The Rise and Fall of Charm in American Men
2013.05.24 – 13:01
The Rise and Fall of Charm in American Men “In short, Grant suddenly and fully developed charm, a quality that is tantalizing because it simultaneously demands detachment and engagement. Only the self-aware can have charm: It’s bound up with a sensibility that at best approaches wisdom, or at least worldliness, and at worst goes well […]
Blog: FanGraphs Baseball: Miguel Cabrera’s Ridiculous Plate Coverage
2013.05.24 – 10:52
Miguel Cabrera’s Ridiculous Plate Coverage by Drew Sheppard FanGraphs Baseball
Blog: The American Conservative » Rod Dreher: How Art Can Lead To God
2013.05.23 – 12:07
How Art Can Lead To God by Rod Dreher The American Conservative » Rod Dreher
Blog: Wired Science: Physicists Create Quantum Link Between Photons That Don’t Exist at the Same Time
2013.05.23 – 12:07
Physicists Create Quantum Link Between Photons That Don’t Exist at the Same Time by Adrian Cho, ScienceNOW Wired Science
Blog: The Ümlaut | The Ümlaut: Why Our World Started in 1979
2013.05.22 – 17:37
Why Our World Started in 1979 by Dalibor Rohac The Ümlaut | The Ümlaut
Blog: Ben Casnocha: Status and Power Drive Social Dynamics in Business
2013.05.21 – 10:37
Status and Power Drive Social Dynamics in Business by Ben Casnocha Ben Casnocha
Blog: Strange Maps | Big Think: 607 – That Monkey Don’t Swim: Maps, Sex and Violence
2013.05.21 – 10:37
607 – That Monkey Don’t Swim: Maps, Sex and Violence by Frank Jacobs Strange Maps | Big Think
Blog: Ben Casnocha: Awe, An On-Going Series
2013.05.21 – 10:37
Awe, An On-Going Series by Ben Casnocha Ben Casnocha