“I want to capture something that happens in milliseconds, something that you don’t even realize took place,” he told me. “I’m extending the moments—the present, the now—because as humans we live only in the past and the future. But the only existence we have is now, and that is something that we don’t even consider.”

Explores the differences between happiness and meaningfulness.

The 100 most important Swedes in history — clearly I haven’t been working hard enough to get on this list.

“Emotion is not the spanner in the works of a more rational society. It is the engine that powers it, which reason must understand in order to steer it wisely.”

I recently decided to take a vacation from Twitter. Alan Jacobs here pretty much captures why I got fed up with it and needed a break.

“I would suggest that Kreps’s system architecture can be further distilled, to this basic precept: * Focus on the data, not on the logic. The logic will emerge when you understand the data. That, in the end, is what 50 years of building database systems, version control systems, object-oriented programming languages, and the like, teaches us.”

Nate Silver: “Catering to higher-end customers in a period of rapid economic growth may be a Faustian bargain, as it increases near-term cash flows but erodes support among working class segments of the fan base who may be important to a team’s success in the longer term.”