Accidental Greatness — Medium “It’s such a great picture that I have to enter the gallery and look at this photographer’s other work. And that is when it becomes interesting because although the place is full of the person’s other work, all of it is mediocre crap. Bad calendar art, the many pictures are all […]

Worked things out with The Wirecutter – Marco.org “Much of the stress I felt during this is from the amount of access to me that I grant to the public. A few months ago, Howard Stern pulled back from Twitter for this reason, after being flamed ruthlessly whenever he said anything, and raised a great […]

Game Theory, Team Reasoning, and a Bit about Sport Too “Social choice theory is beset by scenarios—the “prisoner’s dilemma”, the “stag hunt”, the “tragedy of the commons”, and so on—in which a group of individuals each choosing for themselves are all too likely to miss the result that they want most. Team reasoning avoids these […]

Frank Chimero – From the Porch to the Street “Christopher Alexander made a great diagram, a spectrum of privacy: street to sidewalk to porch to living room to bedroom. I think for many of us Twitter started as the porch—our space, our friends, with the occassional neighborhood passer-by. As the service grew and we gained […]

Are We Out of Big Ideas? We no longer have ideas powerful enough to organize the world. Yesterday’s “isms” are vanishing. And in their place is left a vacuum.

”Egen valkrets för svenskar i utlandet kan avgöra valet” För att råda bot på problemet föreslår Svenskar i världen en radikal lösning: Inför en särskild valkrets för utlandssvenskarna.

The Internet’s Original Sin – The Atlantic Building the web on top of advertising was a mistake. “If we want to build a web that’s really global, we need to rethink online payment systems.”

Robin Williams and Why Funny People Kill Themselves From Cracked