It's between the stroke one from the neuroanatomist - Jill Barad, I now remember - and the very first one I ever saw, on Seadragon out of MSFT.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
from iPhone
It reminds me of the old joke published in /Mad/: “Q: What does the starship Enterprise and toilet paper have in common? A: They both circle around Uranus looking for Klingons.”
- John Lam
"To simulate owning a sailboat in the Bay Area, stand in a shower, set it to maximum cold and turn it on full blast, and then start stuffing $100 bills down the drain." -- Piaw Na, https://friendfeed.com/bindu...
Clogging the drain is an important part of the experience. The costs it takes to unclog it and the mess it makes is very much like what happens when the head clogs up when one of your friends forgets and starts tossing toilet paper down the toilet. (Yes, marine heads are *not* designed to have toilet paper stuffed down them)
- Piaw Na
Good point, Piaw. The only problem is that you'll never be able to burn through money as fast as a real boat if you have to keep unclogging the drain.
- Gabe
Unless you retire, live on it and get a crew to pay you. Do you have to pay property taxes on a sailboat?
- Peng-Toh
How can you tell if a feature is really a product? You can wait for customers to start adopting it, see if they love it, and then try to jump in as an investor or an employee. What if you don’t want to wait for customers to love it? Then you’ve got two options: 1. Invest in lots of startups like Y Combinator or Ron Conway — expect most of them to fail and a few to succeed wildly. 2....
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- Adam Kazwell
"Pundits talk about "populist rage" as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class. But they have it wrong. Families understand with crystalline clarity that the rules they have played by are not the same rules that govern Wall Street. They understand that no American family is "too big to fail." They recognize that business models have shifted and that big banks are pulling out all the stops to squeeze families and boost revenues. They understand that their economic security is under assault and that leaving consumer debt effectively unregulated does not work."
- Leonard
For truly minimal text composers I've been a huge fan of WriteRoom, but this video preview of Ommwriter (not 'Omniwriter') shows that moving past minimal you can create immersive emotive UIs. Not for coding, but for composing. - http://vimeo.com/7670108
There are three questions you have when you’re hiring a programmer (or anyone, for that matter): Are they smart? Can they get stuff done? Can you work with them? Someone who’s smart but doesn’t get stuff done should be your friend, not your employee. You can talk your problems over with them while they procrastinate on their actual job. Someone... - http://superamit.tumblr.com/post...
They already do. My DROID syncs with my Facebook and Google contacts, converging them both for the same contact on either network. Don't ask me how that's done though
- LANjackal
You mean your DRIOD can get to the email addresses of your facebook contacts?
- Bindu Reddy
Yep, as well as any numbers, addresses or work positions they have listed on FB
- LANjackal
from IM
There's a reason contact management on the DROID has been praised as the best implementation thereof in the smartphone arena, if not anywhere period
- LANjackal
from IM
""Open" is a great thing. Everyone likes it." Maybe everyone you know ;)
- Clare Dibble
a friend of mine has a bb storm and it integrates w/ facebook (when i call him, my facebook avatar shows up... etc etc) -- the Droid being able to combine contact lists and merge them when applicable sounds like the next step
- Chris Heath
It's still not open. That data is locked into the built in contacts app and you can't get it at an api level. Android 2.0 has a complete (well, half-baked) contact model that allows aggregating contact info. Not to mention that when I entered my contact info into facebook that I understood it was going to be shared that way. But from an end-user standpoint it's great!
- Hayes Haugen
@LANJackal that sounds great... I guess my information is dated than..
- Bindu Reddy
Very great post. One of the best. This share remember me with two other great peoples described by Katie Hafner is his book (Where the wizards stay up late): Vint Cerf (you known what i mean) and Dave Clark (by his famous quote : "we reject kings presidents and voting. we believe in rough consensus and running code.") With an "open" mind like yours, they make with days, months, years, a very great open life fluid. I'm very happy to follow you. As Louis Gray says : Please keep blogging. Thank you.
- Guy Vander Heyden
Just like with any other activity, the intention behind being open is very important. If somebody wants to manipulate or mislead, then it can be dangerous to follow them. We just have to be aware of extremes. That said, I have learnt a lot from following you and thanks for sharing your ideas so eloquently.
- Shakeel Mahate
Hey, thanks for the mention - I'm glad you're enjoying Alfie Kohn's book. He makes me think.
- Laura Norvig
Thanks Laura. I've actually "outsourced" the reading to April, but she tells me about it :)
- Paul Buchheit
Heh, see this is the type of efficiency mindset you've developed by running a startup.
- Laura Norvig
“Get the hell out of my store, you freeloader! This is for members-only. We don’t need riff-raff like you in here.” Danny breaks down the situation with humor + logic.
- Matt Cutts
from iPhone
Danny Sullivan has been on a roll with Murdoch/Google articles. Eagerly waiting to see how this will play out.
- Atul Arora
"... There’s one thing you shouldn’t do. Blame others for sending you visitors and not figuring out how to make money off of them." - well phrased conclusion about a situation everyone only slightly knowing the web is shaking their heads about the last couple of weeks.
- Henner Zeller
Sam Wang is a neuroscientist. Willpower is capacity generated by an organ of your body: your brain.
- Ruchira S. Datta
It's a finite resource, that you can build, the way that you'd build a muscle.
- Ruchira S. Datta
We all hold beliefs about our brains, e.g., playing music to a fetus makes it smarter, alcohol kills brain cells, sudoku keeps your brain from degenerating as you get older. All of these are myths.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Will start with a statement by William James, a foundational figure in psychology and neuroscience.
- Ruchira S. Datta
He said in 1908 we are making use of only a small part of our mental and physical resources. That was a true statement.
- Ruchira S. Datta
But motivational speaker Dale Carnegie turned this into "You only use 10% of your brain." This is not true. You need your entire brain.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Brain weighs 1.2kg. It's a very efficient organ, using 12-15 watts, out of your body's total energy budget as 70 watts--as much as an idling laptop or the light in your refrigerator. In a literal sense, we're all dim bulbs.
- Ruchira S. Datta
We are all running flat out. The brain is a finite resource, and it's possible to deplete aspects of the brain's resources.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Willpower has been studied in the laboratory by psychologists and neuroscientists. If I give you an impossible puzzle to solve, you'll spend a certain amount of time on it before giving up.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Roy Baumeister did this with students. If he gave students radishes to eat beforehand, they persisted for 8 minutes. If he didn't they persisted for twice as long.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Another group of students was given freshly baked chocolate chip cookies. They persisted and persisted. (It was a little bit mean, because the students eating the radishes could smell the cookies.)
- Ruchira S. Datta
Willpower was a common resource which was shared between the two tasks.
- Ruchira S. Datta
This has been replicated in another test: circling the letter 'e' over and over, then watching a boring video of a wall and a table where nothing ever happens.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Willpower requires executive attention: to make plans, to act on those plans, to have working memory, to focus attention long enough to do a task, to not be distracted.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Executive attention has been imaged by fMRI and is deficient in people with certain brain lesions, e.g., the prefrontal cortex and the anterior cingulate cortex.
- Ruchira S. Datta
So, when eating radishes, what is it that runs out? Could be blood sugar--when doing a tedious task, one's blood sugar goes down.
- Ruchira S. Datta
If the students eating radishes were given lemonade, their persistence on the second task did not go down. But diet lemonade didn't help.
- Ruchira S. Datta
There are other possibilities, e.g., a neurotransmitter.
- Ruchira S. Datta
If you're going to an important meeting, don't go window-shopping, and perhaps let the housework slide.
- Ruchira S. Datta
The brain is a plastic organ. So the converse is that you can build your capacity up.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Practicing a tedious task improves your willpower.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Brushing your teeth with the wrong hand helps you to stick with a diet.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Cartoon by Lisa Haney, a cellist who once was in the same group as Zoe Keating who played earlier: a neuron lifting weights.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Exercising willpower can also be done at an early age.
- Ruchira S. Datta
A standard approach to Attention Deficit Disorder is Ritalin. But willpower training also works in children, even preschool children.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Dynamic mapping of human cortical development during childhood through early adulthood: Paul M. Thompson and collaborators.
- Ruchira S. Datta
"Dawning horror tinged with self-loathing crept slowly over the face of claims adjuster Robert Pettlebaum, 42, as he described his job and by extension his life to others during a seemingly innocuous Tuesday lunch meeting. "Mostly what I do is I seek out discrepancies in the property appraisal versus the claimant's estimate of worth and then I…then I defer outpays…with…oh, God…," Pettlebaum said as shadows of unspeakable self-realization flickered across his increasingly desperate eyes. "Wait, no, that can't be right. I don't…do I?" Pettlebaum's mounting terror was met with incomprehension and nervous laughter from his companions, who sources indicated have anywhere between three weeks and 27 years before realizing their own existences are as desolate and barren as his."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
I worked for State Farm (Insurance defense) for 4+ years - this sounds so true it's scary
- Susan Beebe
"I’m still mulling over the longer term consequences of a post-RSS, post-API culture that destroys any reasonable barrier to putting all the data that matters to you any place you want any time it suits you. I’m not prepared to make a grand statement about What That Means yet, although I think it’s warranted at some point."
- Adewale Oshineye