Rahmin Sarabi

Beyond the Seas I’ll put up a boat, and set it free off the shore. I’ll let it take me away-from this eerie land, where nobody calls up the sleeping heroes- from their long, lonely trance. I’ll put up a boat, and set it free off the shore; a boat with no net, a boat with no seine, with my heart cleansed of wish for pearl. I’ll sail away on the... - http://notes.rahmin.com/post...

Smart People Ask Questions - http://tmac721.tumblr.com/post...

Bon Iver - Perth (The Polish Ambassador Remix) (by thepolishambassador) - http://notes.rahmin.com/post...

Q. What ideals have you embraced from Steve Jobs? A. The importance of doing everything you do to your very best. And that the journey is the reward. If you do things well one at a time, you end up in a really good place. Don’t get ahead of yourself. Control the things you can. - http://notes.rahmin.com/post...

The corruption of this government is a cancer. And you don’t launch an attack on cancer by prescribing good eating and exercise. Nor can you make change believable by pushing for reforms that won’t change anything in that corruption. What Obama must do if he is to make American democracy possible again is to speak boldly, not practically, about... - http://notes.rahmin.com/post...

It Is Safe to Resume Ignoring the Prophets of Doom ... Right? - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2012...

(via Lawrence Lessig: How Money Corrupts Congress and a Plan to Stop It - The Long Now) 1) Because of the costs of running a campaign for office and our current campaign finance rules, corporate interests effectively run the government, in many cases creating outcomes that are completely at odds with what is good for the people regardless of... - http://notes.rahmin.com/post...

www.Ethiopia drama - http://notes.rahmin.com/post...

Emails, tweets, notifications, text and instant messages, Facebook status updates, Path moments — all these are new tools of communication when taken together are notification hell. These notifications prey on human desire for a dopamine fix. And just as we are over-caffenited, I think the 21st century is quickly making us over-notified. - http://notes.rahmin.com/post...

So what would our mornings look like if we re-engineered them in the interest of maximizing our creative problem-solving capacities? We’d set the alarm a few minutes early and lie awake in bed, following our thoughts where they lead (with a pen and paper nearby to jot down any evanescent inspirations.) We’d stand a little longer under the warm... - http://notes.rahmin.com/post...

The secret of success is concentrating interest in life, interest in sports and good times, interest in your studies, interest in your fellow students, interest in the small things of nature, insects, birds, flowers, leaves, etc. In other words to be fully awake to everything about you & the more you learn the more you can appreciate & get a full... - http://notes.rahmin.com/post...

John Seely Brown: Tinkering as a Mode of Knowledge Production (by christiansarkar) - http://notes.rahmin.com/post...

curiositycounts: A new visual vocabulary that reflects the multi-dimensional role of great teachers from Hyperakt and Studio 360, with plenty of free downloadable posters. Related reading: A New Culture of Learning. - http://notes.rahmin.com/post...

grantimatter: Rules of engagement. I think I may need to make these a wallpaper or transcribe them onto a Post-It or something. Remind me about it tomorrow, OK? [via girldefective: iateabee] - http://notes.rahmin.com/post...

newspeedwayboogie: Gorgeous song, and love the way he describes his new record: “an album I couldn’t have released until now. I’ve put off making records under my own name for a long time but these songs feel like they could only be presented under my name. These songs were written from scratch, had nothing to do with anyone or anything else but... - http://notes.rahmin.com/post...

(via Holy Cow. This Is How E-Readers Should Actually Work | Edudemic) - http://notes.rahmin.com/post...

(via Apple’s Massive Numbers And Some Context | TechCrunch) Apple’s profit of $13.1 billion was equal to theirrevenue in Q4 2010, as Jordan Golson notes. To be clear, that was just a year and a quarter ago. That’s how quickly Apple is growing. Apple’s profits for the last quarter exceed Google’s entire revenue for the last quarter, as Farhad... - http://notes.rahmin.com/post...

The top-level goal for most people is to convince others they are the individuals they want to be, whether that includes being happy, attractive, smart, fun or anything else. - http://notes.rahmin.com/post...

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice. - http://notes.rahmin.com/post...

Obama has the view. Here’s to delivering on it in his 2nd term. - http://notes.rahmin.com/post...

huffing stain and clear coat - more fun that I remembered. - http://notes.rahmin.com/post...

zachklein: I met a guy named John Crockett. This is his business card. I’m tempted to say This is the future of business cards. But that’s silly. Business cards already seem anachronistic. However, this strikes me as the future of self-actualization. I think people more often will understand and describe themselves as sets of granular expertises.... - http://notes.rahmin.com/post...

woodshop returns - http://notes.rahmin.com/post...

The big question for universities going forward is this: Can control of credentialing last for long without control of knowledge? If a great many people learn from Sebastian Thrun and Udacity how to create a search engine, and if some of those are very good search engines, might not the most successful students simply point to their work as a... - http://notes.rahmin.com/post...

Social Cities of Tomorrow conference text. By Michiel de Lange & Martijn de Waal - http://www.socialcitiesoftomorrow.nl/backgro...

He’s [Romney’s] not going to pay more than the law requires, and I don’t fault him for that in the least. But I do fault a law that allows him and me earning enormous sums to pay overall federal taxes at a rate that’s about half what the average person in my office pays. - http://notes.rahmin.com/post...

I feel like there’s a red pill and a blue pill, and you can take the blue pill and go back to your classroom and lecture your 20 students. But I’ve taken the red pill, and I’ve seen Wonderland. - http://notes.rahmin.com/post...

(via The Saxifrage School) A college education is only worth your time and money if, at the end of four years, you are actually capable of doing because you have been doing, not just studying, all this time. Students should be recognized as sovereign learners capable of education and success even without attending an institution. Some are all the... - http://notes.rahmin.com/post...

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John Steinbeck on Falling in Love: A 1958 Letter to his eldest son - http://www.theatlantic.com/enterta...