“When we use a violin, we create a song. When we use an iPhone, we create each other and ourselves.”
http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/11/9493425/technology-isnt-a-tool-its-an-instrument
Year: 2015
It’s Financial Suicide To Own A House
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/financial-fridays-its-suicide-own-house-james-altucher
“Yet despite how advanced it has become, the core unit of meaning in Wikipedia remains the page, organized around a subject, composed of paragraphs organized in sections. Wikipedia is a paragraph-based entity.”
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122954/chaotic-wisdom-wikipedia-paragraphs
“The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world. The tweaker inherits things as they are, and has to push and pull them toward some more nearly perfect solution. That is not a lesser task.”
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/11/14/the-tweaker
“Blogging is so dead that Facebook and Twitter are joining Medium in trying to take it over.” — Dan Gillmor
https://twitter.com/dangillmor/status/648937755062456321
“A few years ago Jeff Bezos stopped by …
“… he shared an enlightened observation about people who are “right a lot”.
“He said people who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds. He doesn’t think consistency of thought is a particularly positive trait. It’s perfectly healthy — encouraged, even — to have an idea tomorrow that contradicted your idea today.
“He’s observed that the smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they’d already solved. They’re open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking.
“This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have a well formed point of view, but it means you should consider your point of view as temporary.”
“What trait signified someone who was wrong a lot of the time? Someone obsessed with details that only support one point of view. If someone can’t climb out of the details, and see the bigger picture from multiple angles, they’re often wrong most of the time.’
https://medium.com/@jasonfried/some-advice-from-jeff-bezos-28b3c2938968
A quick puzzle to tell whether you know what people are thinking
http://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/wonkblog/majority-illusion/
You Can Be Rejected, but You Cannot be Stopped
https://blog.orangecaffeine.com/you-can-be-rejected-but-you-cannot-be-stopped-479ed1b1403a
“Reversible Concrete” Is Ready to Revolutionize Temporary Architecture
http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/mits-reversible-concrete-is-ready-to-revolutionize-temporary-architecture
“The perfect solution appears to be a hybrid between the current Bitcoin remittance startups and the ubiquitous mobile-money network that currently exists only in our dreams. If we can use Bitcoin to replace SWIFT during the international part of the journey, and employ the local mobile money network as our domestic transport, then we’ve really got something. Until then, associating Bitcoin so directly with cheaper remittances is perhaps missing the point: the cryptocurrency has illuminated an even larger problem that it simply cannot solve on its own.”
https://medium.com/@Cryptonight/bitcoin-doesn-t-make-remittances-cheaper-eb5f437849fe