Blog: Letters of Note: Letter to a Young Poet
Blog: Barking up the wrong tree: 5 tips for improving your startup company
late bloomer, not a loser. (I hope) by Dave McClure
late bloomer, not a loser. (I hope) by Dave McClure
‘I’m still betting my epitaph will read “late bloomer”, and not “failure”.’
Blog: The American Conservative » Rod Dreher: Andersen: ‘The Sixties Ruined America’
Blog: Journal of a Programmer: A troubling article on scientific careers
Blog: Seth’s Blog: Art fears business fears art
YouTube: How big is a billion? – Numberphile
» The EMs have it: Proportional Media Queries FTW! Cloud Four Blog
» The EMs have it: Proportional Media Queries FTW! Cloud Four Blog
“As I zoom in, that is, make the text larger in my browser, I’m no longer at a 14pt/16px baseline. 100%/1em in my world is now a different number, maybe 18pt, maybe 32px. Pixel-defined content holders no longer have comfortable amounts of words per line. Pixel-defined content holders that float might wrap awkwardly as the content in them swells.”
YouTube: Yosemite Nature Notes – Episode 9 – Frazil Ice
A VC: Mobile Is Where The Growth Is
A VC: Mobile Is Where The Growth Is
“Mobile does not reward feature richness. It rewards small, application specific, feature light services.”
Twitter: @SamMillerBP
Blog: ScienceNOW: A Shotgun for Blood Clots
Technology – Robert Wright – What This Higgs Boson Thing Really Means – The Atlantic
Technology – Robert Wright – What This Higgs Boson Thing Really Means – The Atlantic
“So, as for the question of what this Higgs boson thing ultimately ‘means’: It means we should all try to have some intellectual humility, especially when opining on grand philosophical matters, because the thing we’re using to try to understand the world–the human brain–is, in the grand scheme of things, a pretty crude instrument.”
Twitter: @TheMarkTwain
The Miracle and the Moment (Michele Kerr) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice
The Miracle and the Moment (Michele Kerr) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice
“Implicit in the expectations for all students is the belief that truck drivers, manicurists, retail clerks, fire fighters, and all other occupations that aren’t driven by intellect, simply aren’t good enough. They don’t matter. These aren’t lives that might benefit from beauty or poetry, an opinion about the Bill of Rights or, hell, even an understanding of why you should always switch if Monty Hall gives you the option.”
Twitter: @dcurtis
Are the stories you tell yourself the key to happiness? – Barking up the wrong tree
Are the stories you tell yourself the key to happiness? – Barking up the wrong tree
‘According to the psychologist Michele Crossley, depression frequently stems from an “incoherent story,” an “inadequate narrative account of oneself,” or “a life story gone awry.” Psychotherapy helps unhappy people set their life stories straight; it literally gives them a story they can live with. And it works.’