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Blog: Adventures in Capitalism: bukowski on writing
Blog: Wired Science: Asteroid Belts Could Be Key to Finding Alien Life
Blog: Barking Up The Wrong Tree: Do Starbucks employees have more emotional intelligence than your doctor?
Stop Procrastinating By ‘Clearing To Neutral’
Stop Procrastinating By ‘Clearing To Neutral’
CTN is a POST-activity habit. AFTER you have done your main activity, do your post-activity work (clear to neutral). This means you set everything up so it is ready for the next time.
Blog: The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan: Write For Purpose, Not People
Blog: Dan Ariely: How to Stop Illegal Downloads
Blog: The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan: Vote Republican Or The Economy Gets It
Blog: Marginal Revolution: A Bet is a Tax on Bullshit
Religion and football have been butting heads lately
Religion and football have been butting heads lately
“It’s the borderline between “values” and “religious values” that becomes ill-defined, socially and constitutionally, when a Christian message among Christian families becomes a Christian message at a public function.”
Flag on the play
Flag on the play
“There is a reason why the hardest news in sports—stories of concussions, doping scandals, the involvement of teams in the transnational workings of dirty capital—not only isn’t broken by star columnists, but is rarely seriously addressed by them.”
Joy Williams on Why Writers Write
Joy Williams on Why Writers Write
“A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings.”
Blog: Via Meadia: Self-Healing Concrete and Other 21st-Century Miracles
Vice And Virtue | The American Conservative
Vice And Virtue | The American Conservative
“There is no formula for these things. Err too much on the side of permissiveness, and you get anarchy, moral and sometimes otherwise. Err too much on the side of strictness, and you get cruelty and inhumanity.”
YouTube: Prickles & Goo: Alan Watts Trey Parker Matt Stone South Park
Inside The Major League Baseball Tech Startup That Could Change Television
Inside The Major League Baseball Tech Startup That Could Change Television
“Suddenly the real value of the Tampa Bay Rays isn’t in trying to attract fans to watch a scrappy team play baseball, it’s in the 1/30th equity they have in that little tech startup they invested in to put box scores up on their website.”
Making the Jobs of the Future Work | Via Meadia
Making the Jobs of the Future Work | Via Meadia
“Workers of the future are going to be much more like entrepreneurs, negotiating short term assignments, juggling part time gigs, combining income from self employment and part time work. This implies a very different education than our current big box, stay in line system can provide.”
Astros’ Luhnow on brain trust, analytics, early struggles
Astros’ Luhnow on brain trust, analytics, early struggles
“But to just repeat and sort of disagree with the process and say, ‘Well, I think we should be highlighting tools more,’ or ‘I think we should be highlighting performance more,’ or ‘I think this tool is more important than that tool or whatever,’ we’ve already gone through the discipline of figuring all that stuff out.”