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Monthly Archives: June 2013
13 Critically Important Lessons from Over 50 Growth Hackers
2013.06.18 – 13:31
13 Critically Important Lessons from Over 50 Growth Hackers 1. Retention trumps acquisition …
Malcolm Gladwell: Albert O. Hirschman and the Power of Failure : The New Yorker
2013.06.18 – 10:20
Malcolm Gladwell: Albert O. Hirschman and the Power of Failure : The New Yorker This was, Hirschman wrote, a “near perfect example of the economist’s bias in favor of exit and against voice”
Listening to Young Atheists: Lessons for a Stronger Christianity
2013.06.17 – 18:31
Listening to Young Atheists: Lessons for a Stronger Christianity "That these students were, above all else, idealists who longed for authenticity, and having failed to find it in their churches, they settled for a non-belief that, while less grand in its promises, felt more genuine and attainable."
The Rise And Fall of Ken Wilber
2013.06.17 – 12:16
The Rise And Fall of Ken Wilber "David Foster Wallace states in his speech “This Is Water” that we all choose something to worship, whether we realize it or not. Wilber would say what we choose to worship is dependent on the stage or level of consciousness we’ve developed to. And he would be right. […]
Introducing NuPIC
2013.06.17 – 11:37
Introducing NuPIC Numenta (now Grok) open sourced their cortical learning algorithm, which attempts to replicate how the brain models learning.
Integrating Baseball Knowledge
2013.06.17 – 10:39
Integrating Baseball Knowledge "Leaps in evolution or and gains in knowledge usually occur by "transcending and including" previous data or ideas, not by completely wiping out what came before."
Quote from Tumblr
2013.06.16 – 11:22
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. Nietzsche Family Circus kenarneson.tumblr.com
Ladder to Prayer
2013.06.16 – 07:31
Ladder to Prayer "Curiously, the Orthodox tradition of ‘mental prayer’, known as hesychasm (from the Greek word hesychia, meaning ‘stillness of mind’), has much in common with oriental meditation: a sitting posture, rhythmic breathing, the recitation of a specific mantra, the guidance of a guru, stillness of mind, and the ultimate goal of union with […]
Ancient Roman Concrete Is About to Revolutionize Modern Architecture
2013.06.15 – 00:17
Ancient Roman Concrete Is About to Revolutionize Modern Architecture
Blog: TED Blog: Why your brain doesn’t want you to lose weight: Sandra Aamodt at TEDGlobal 2013
2013.06.14 – 14:24
Why your brain doesn’t want you to lose weight: Sandra Aamodt at TEDGlobal 2013 by Karen Eng TED Blog
The Twilight Of Christian Europe
2013.06.14 – 08:38
She explained that she doesn’t believe in sin, not as Christians conceive of it, but rather in “consciousness” (enlightenment) or its lack. There is nothing to be saved from, therefore no need of a savior. I told her that even when I didn’t take Christianity seriously, the reality of sin, and my own sinfulness, was […]
The Patient Who Let Us Peek Inside A Brain In ‘Present Tense’ : NPR
2013.06.13 – 01:01
The Patient Who Let Us Peek Inside A Brain In ‘Present Tense’ : NPR
John Gray’s Godless Mysticism: On “The Silence Of Animals”
2013.06.12 – 14:01
John Gray’s Godless Mysticism: On “The Silence Of Animals” "We have to learn to abandon pernicious daydreams such as a new cosmopolitan world order governed by universal human rights, or that history has a teleological, providential purpose that underwrites human action."
Blog: Ta-Nehisi Coates : The Atlantic: To Stop Being the Party of Stupid You Must Stop Being Stupid
2013.06.12 – 11:07
To Stop Being the Party of Stupid You Must Stop Being Stupid by Ta-Nehisi Coates Ta-Nehisi Coates : The Atlantic
Blog: Ezra Klein: How the Spurs beat the Heat: the principle of financial arbitrage
2013.06.12 – 09:52
How the Spurs beat the Heat: the principle of financial arbitrage by Neil Irwin Ezra Klein
Paris Review – Herald the Crack of Bats, Adam Sobsey
2013.06.12 – 09:46
Paris Review – Herald the Crack of Bats, Adam Sobsey
How crackers ransack passwords like “qeadzcwrsfxv1331”
2013.06.11 – 15:01
How crackers ransack passwords like “qeadzcwrsfxv1331”
Why Some of the World’s Most Productive People Have Empty Schedules
2013.06.11 – 11:16
Why Some of the World’s Most Productive People Have Empty Schedules