"On the other hand, we all love a story: one with a beginning, middle and end. And to see history as simply one damn thing after another seems to rob it of that larger meaning that many want to read into it."
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Blog: Derek Sivers: Changing your operating system
Vimeo: Paul Adams: How to Design Social Experiences
‘Binge Learning’ is Online Education’s Killer App
The Post-Gladwellian Paradox: Why Intuitive is the New Counterintuitive | The Ümlaut
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OTL: The enduring mystery of Roberto Clemente’s bat – MLB – ESPN
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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, and after all that effort, the software can sadly, only truly improve with a major overhaul.”
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
"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."