“There is vastly more financial data set down in the world’s computers than there ever has been before, including publically accessible data, and yet the economy is a mess. How can this be, if information is the solution?”
—The Hazards of Nerd Supremacy: The Case of WikiLeaks - Technology - The Atlantic (via Instapaper)
December 2010
“There’s too much stuff. It seems to me that almost all tools we rely on to manage information weren’t designed for a world of infinite info. They were designed as if you could consume whatever was out there that you were interested in.”
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Evan Williams: The Challenges of a Web of Infinite Info: Tech News and Analysis «
Completely agree. This is a huge opportunity for entrepreneurs to figure out.
(via bijan)
“just renamed my IPhone the Titanic. When I plug it into my computer, it says “The Titanic is syncing”.”
—Twitter / @Kjirsten Johnson: just renamed my IPhone the …
Behemoth
Bong-Ra
Bong-Ra - Behemoth
from Monster EP
Play
“ou can’t totally blame the Internet for the fact that we’re basically crackheads. Our bodies are designed with the flaw of wanting to be crackheads. And manipulating that flaw is partly how you get 500 million users for your thingy.”
—The Viral Me: Devin Friedman Investigates the New World of Social Networking: Big Issues: GQ (via Instapaper)
“The eminent linguistic philosopher J. L. Austin of Oxford once gave a lecture in which he asserted that there are many languages in which a double negative makes a positive, but none in which a double positive makes a negative — to which the Columbia philosopher Sidney Morgenbesser, sitting in the audience, sarcastically replied, “Yeah, yeah.”
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Steven Strogatz, “The Enemy of My Enemy”
I have now lost count of the number of times I’ve heard or read this anecdote.
(via nostrich)
“It is a long story, but in summary, one general rule of mine is don’t hire or fund rich people. The reason? Building a technology company is hard. It’s really frackin’ hard. Many of the tasks that you do when building one are no fun. When things go wrong as they always do, it’s no fun at all. Rich people tend to like to work on things that they enjoy, because if they don’t enjoy it, well, they are already rich. When the going gets tough, the rich get going … to their vacation homes and their yachts.”
—Gaurav Dhillon 2.0 and His All New Integration Company // ben’s blog
“This is a club that’s hard to get into. If you’re a Fortune 500 C.E.O., there are only 500 people in that club.”
—Robert A. Eckert on Building the Culture at Mattel - NYTimes.com
La Canzone dei Vecchi Amanti
Musica Nuda
Musica Nuda - “La Canzone dei Vecchi Amanti (Feat Stefano Bollani)”
Petra Magoni and Ferruccio Spinetti. The pure sound of their music is etheric. Petra’s singing is piercing, humorous from time to time (Guarda Che Luna). You can hear opera experience mixed with jazz and her eclectic nature. Ferruccio’s contrabass playing creates the magic rhythm we all are looking for. Their second and third albums (Musica Nuda; Musica Nuda 2) feature remakes of jazz classics and popular music. Check out their live performances on youtube. It’s compelling to see someone enjoy their art so much.
It’s jazz week and we’re still open to your suggestions.
