Prisoners Of The Narrative | The American Conservative
“Narratives are useful insofar as they give us a reasonably reliable model through which to interpret evidence and events. They cease to be helpful when they become an impediment to seeing the truth. The trick is determining when a narrative tips from being enlightening to, well, endarkening.”
Prisoners Of The Narrative | The American Conservative
# 2012.08.31 – 09:30
Blog: The American Conservative » Rod Dreher: What People Don’t Get About Your Job
# 2012.08.31 – 09:18
Blog: Barking up the wrong tree: How do we find meaning in life?
# 2012.08.31 – 09:18
Ichiro, Hopeful Mushroom Farmer » NPB Tracker
Ichiro, Hopeful Mushroom Farmer » NPB Tracker
Now I think I want to be a Mountain Supervisor when I grow up, too.
# 2012.08.31 – 08:24
Twitter: @OldHossRadbourn
OldHossRadbourn In my day we learned the hard way to keep thespians away from politicians. RIP, Mr. Lincoln.
# 2012.08.31 – 07:29
Twitter: @Sky_Kalkman
Sky_Kalkman In sports, the journey (season) is the whole point. Winning is the end. In politics, winning is just the beginning.
# 2012.08.31 – 07:28
Dan Lewis — OMG and the Hopeful Moment: The New SEO
Dan Lewis — OMG and the Hopeful Moment: The New SEO
“All these people sharing your stuff — even in the basest way possible — will help a part of your intended audience find your thoughts. That audience will read every word. And you couldn’t have gotten there otherwise.”
# 2012.08.31 – 07:17
The Age of ‘OMG! LOL’ in Sports Media | SportsonEarth.com : Will Leitch Article
The Age of ‘OMG! LOL’ in Sports Media | SportsonEarth.com : Will Leitch Article
“average person…is just looking for something to chat about when they’re killing time at a sports bar or, more likely, online. “It’s the Tweet” isn’t a pithy epithet about killing journalism. It’s essentially the way most human beings think on a basic level.”
# 2012.08.30 – 15:51
Twitter: @Mike_FTW
Mike_FTW Ford’s Gap: The amount of time between launching something new and forwarding @ftrain’s “Why Wasn’t I Consulted” post to some idiot.
# 2012.08.28 – 20:42
Blog: Journal of a Programmer: Post 1000
# 2012.08.28 – 19:10
Twitter: @king_kaufman
king_kaufman Great answer to “What have you learned as a police officer about life and society that most people don’t know?” http://t.co/pnDIolo3
# 2012.08.28 – 15:03
A Critic’s Manifesto: The Intersection of Expertise and Taste : The New Yorker
A Critic’s Manifesto: The Intersection of Expertise and Taste : The New Yorker
“For all criticism is based on that equation: KNOWLEDGE + TASTE = MEANINGFUL JUDGMENT. The key word here is meaningful. People who have strong reactions to a work—and most of us do—but don’t possess the wider erudition that can give an opinion heft, are not critics.”
# 2012.08.28 – 13:55
Grim’s Hall: One of the Big Questions
Grim’s Hall: One of the Big Questions
“That suggests that there is something else at work — something that (if we view the scale in a way that favors the large scale) appears to be an ordering principle in Nature itself. It could be a unifying principle that explains the rise of life, as well as why the survival principle falls in so nicely with the inorganic ordering principles. That’s just what Aristotle was talking about, and it’s what our modern Christian objectors see also.”
# 2012.08.28 – 09:23
Blog: FanGraphs Baseball: Q&A: Trevor Bauer, Pitching Savant
# 2012.08.27 – 09:56
Blog: Ben Casnocha: Bootcamp Model of Learning
# 2012.08.26 – 20:07
Essay on the Apollo program and spirituality
Essay on the Apollo program and spirituality
“The Apollo Program was an elaborate demonstration of how even the blandest among us are under the heel of the spirit. “
# 2012.08.26 – 11:16
“Create something. Share it. Even if it sucks. Stay on it until it doesn’t anymore.” | Nathan Kontny
“Create something. Share it. Even if it sucks. Stay on it until it doesn’t anymore.” | Nathan Kontny
“I know a lot of people who struggle with choosing which idea to commit to. Or when’s the right time to abandon ship and move onto another idea.
Just pick one. Any of them. And make something out of it. Move onto another idea when you’re pretty sure you’ve squeezed the suck out of it, and now you don’t love it anymore.”
# 2012.08.26 – 10:31
Move time | Nathan Kontny
Move time | Nathan Kontny
“Many businesses create innovation by simply moving time.
They take time that’s usually spent doing things or waiting, and shift that time to other places in the process or to other people. “
# 2012.08.26 – 10:17
Paradoxes Of Altruism In The Digital Age
Paradoxes Of Altruism In The Digital Age
“The knowledge that the news of death brings us all is a knowledge of others’ mortality as well as our own, and it is what links us to others and makes empathy and altruism possible, or at least it is the knowledge that empathy and altruism are about. “
# 2012.08.26 – 09:31