Twitter: @SimonNRicketts
Standing Desks on the Cheap: The IKEA Guide
The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Phase 1: When we really have clarity of purpose, it leads to success.
Phase 2: When we have success, it leads to more options and opportunities.
Phase 3: When we have increased options and opportunities, it leads to diffused efforts.
Phase 4: Diffused efforts undermine the very clarity that led to our success in the first place.
Twitter: @cameronmoll
Twitter: @hakimel
Blog: Dan Ariely: Understanding Ego Depletion
The Importance of Imperfect Models
The Importance of Imperfect Models
Colin Wyers: “All models are wrong. Many are useful. Some are more useful than others. The utility of a model often depends on the question you are trying to answer.”
Blog: Dave Winer: New! New! New! (not yet)
The Spark File — The Writer’s Room — Medium
The Spark File — The Writer’s Room — Medium
“The Spark File
This is why for the past eight years or so I’ve been maintaining a single document where I keep all my hunches: ideas for articles, speeches, software features, startups, ways of framing a chapter
Steve Yegge – Google+ – Notes from the Mystery Machine Bus I’ve spent the past…
Steve Yegge – Google+ – Notes from the Mystery Machine Bus I’ve spent the past…
‘The crux of the disagreement between liberals and conservatives in the software world is this: how much focus should you put on safety? Not just compile-time type-safety, but also broader kinds of “idiot-proofing” for systems spanning more than one machine.’
Our Creation and Our Redemption: The Direct Relationship « Hard-Core Christianity
Our Creation and Our Redemption: The Direct Relationship « Hard-Core Christianity
When science (God’s physical revelation) is properly interpreted, it will be in agreement with Scripture (God’s verbal revelation) properly interpreted.
Blog: The American Conservative » Rod Dreher: Against The Geographical Cure
“A place cannot save you, for there is no place where you can escape from yourself.”
Twitter: @cwyers
Open-plan Offices Suck — Privacy Makes Us Productive
Open-plan Offices Suck — Privacy Makes Us Productive
” the best way to master a field is to work on the task that’s most demanding for you personally. And often the best way to do this is alone.”
Blog: Marginal Revolution: Morality and dispassionate analysis
Blog: I Love Charts: National Park System as a Subway Map
Blog: Barking up the wrong tree: How much does jet lag affect performance?
Anything But Human – NYTimes.com
Anything But Human – NYTimes.com
“Knowing how my selfish and altruistic feelings evolved doesn’t help me decide at all.”
Seeking Grace In Strange Places – The Rumpus.net
Seeking Grace In Strange Places – The Rumpus.net
“After reading again all these writings, all these poets – the religious, the spiritual, the doubters, the non-believers like me – I believe we are all talking about the same thing. I believe that whether we write about god or the absence of god – if we write honestly – then we write about the greatest unattainable wish, the dream of the cave, the strange note sounded in the night that draws men to their death. We write of ultimate mystery and unknowable meaning.”