Startup the $h!t out of city problems
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/startup-ht-out-city-problems-1-shaun-abrahamson
Day: 5 October 2015
Path to a free self-taught graduation in Computer Science!
https://github.com/open-source-society/computer-science
“…The problem is not the camera, the ISO settings, or even Nikon. The problem is that your kids are blurry to begin with. My recommendation, is to take pictures of other kids, and digitally place your kids faces on the pic. If that is too difficult, a visit to a local pediatrician, will provide the antibiotic that corrects this.
I placed 4 stars for the camera, since I am only 80% sure this will resolve your problem.”
http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R2LV4YQVC8VZB0/ref=cm_cr_pr_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B0007KQWE6
“Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good.” – Picasso
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist”. – Picasso
http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2015/10/picasso-create-50000-works-of-art/
“Just consider the shift from a world without telephones to one with them, or from a world of oil lamps to one with electric light. Next to that, who cares about Facebook or the iPad? Indeed, who really cares about the Internet when one considers clean water and flushing toilets?”
“The collapse in child mortality is surely the single most beneficial social change of the past two centuries. It is not only a great good in itself; it also liberated women from the burden, trauma, and danger of frequent pregnancies. ”
“The only recent connections between homes and the outside world are satellite dishes and broadband. Neither is close to being as important as clean water, sewerage, gas, electricity, and the telephone. The great breakthroughs in health—clean water, sewerage, refrigeration, packaging, vaccinations, and antibiotics—are also all long established.”
( ‘Connections between homes and the outside world’ … instantly this brought to mind BRT in Curitiba, and Human Transit’s model of VERY Frequent Bus/Public-Transit-Mode passenger stop within VERY close walking distance of every Person/Dwelling. )
“In the nineteenth century, they argue, machines replaced artisans and benefited unskilled labor. In the twentieth century, computers replaced middle-income jobs, creating a polarized labor market.”
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2015-06-16/same-it-ever-was
“The close relationship between Hoffman and the White House isn’t just about his being a major political donor. He and others like him have something more powerful than money to offer: a way for officials to connect with the largest possible audiences. In the nineteenth century, the bosses of political machines served this role; in the twentieth, it was media barons, especially in broadcasting and newspapers; in the twenty-first, it is people who have created vast online social networks.”
“Even in this age of inequality, there’s nothing as unequal as the distribution of success in Silicon Valley. One of Hoffman’s venture-capital friends, Mike Maples, Jr., estimates that of the roughly thirty thousand tech startups a year, only ten will wind up representing ninety-seven per cent of the total value of all of them, and one will represent as much value as all the others combined.”
“A waiter entered. “I have an algorithm,” Hoffman said. “If it’s a good place, order the special. If it’s a bad place, order what they can’t screw up.” They ordered the special.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/12/the-network-man?mbid=rss