Work the System Book Review
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“…Researchers at Syracuse University and State University of New York discovered that television programs almost never advocate reading books and lend the impression that one can get all the knowledge one needs from watching TV. They theorize this might be responsible for the finding that “young people who view greater amounts of television are more likely to have a decidedly low opinion of book reading as an activity.””
“Perhaps the medium itself, regardless of content, does damage.
Achievement and Intelligence Japanese researchers conducted some of the earliest research on the relationship between television and impaired academic achievement. In 1962, they published findings that reading skills declined among Japanese fifth to seventh graders as soon as their family acquired a television set.”
“… Across the board, even small amounts of television viewing hurt academic achievement.”
“In the famous 1854 debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, Douglas led off with a three-hour opening statement, which Lincoln took four hours to rebut. During the televised presidential debates of 1987, each candidate took five minutes to address questions like “What is your policy in Central America?” before his opponent launched into a sixty-second rebuttal.(83) This sort of parody is as intellectually taxing a presentation as anyone will see on television.”
http://www.simpletoremember.com/articles/a/dangers-of-television/
“If the pile of unread books on the bedside table is a graveyard of good intentions, the list of unread books on a Kindle is a black hole of fleeting intentions”
“The smartphone coupled with the open web creates a near-perfect container for distributing journalism at a grand scale.”
“Once bought by a reader, a book moves through a routine. It is read and underlined, dog-eared and scuffed and, most importantly, reread. To read a book once is to know it in passing. To read it over and over is to become confidants. The relationship between a reader and a book is measured not in hours or minutes but, ideally, in months and years.”
“To return to a book is to return not just to the text but also to a past self. We are embedded in our libraries. To reread is to remember who we once were, which can be equal parts scary and intoxicating. Other services such as Timehop offer ways to return to past photos or past tweets. They, too, are unexpectedly evocative. Far more so than you might think. They allow us to measure and remeasure ourselves. And if a resurfaced tweet has an emotional resonance of x, than a passage in a book by which you were once moved must resonate at 100x.”
http://aeon.co/magazine/technology/why-have-digital-books-stopped-evolving/
“If Rob Ford was smart (ahem) he’d trademark his name and likeness. It would help him in the face of all those political cartoons and such…” — Seth Godin
http://www.duetsblog.com/2014/09/articles/trademarks/dont-litter-eh/#comment-1570664557
“I’ve been accused of vulgarity. I say that’s bullshit.” ― Mel Brooks
https://altmba.com/constanceobrien/opportunity-costs-of-bullshitting-yourself/
“When you say what you want, you give others the opportunity to help you make your dreams come true.”
“If you met Elon Musk, I bet he wouldn’t talk much about Paypal; he would probably tell you about how he plans to make space flight routine.”
https://medium.com/life-learning/never-tell-people-what-you-do-124be62f0751
“Using Slack as a personal information center.”
http://sethclifford.me/2015/09/using-slack-as-a-personal-information-center/
“The seven keys to a great bus rapid transit system”
http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/28073/the-seven-keys-to-a-great-bus-rapid-transit-system/
“The 100 “Best” Books on City-Making Ever Written?” – Brent Toderian
http://www.planetizen.com/node/66462
“A new kind of politics in Britain”
“Corbyn’s win against the odds shows we now live in a world where the iPhone is mightier than the mainstream media.”
“The North London MP ran by far the most effective campaign, combining smart use of social media with old-fashioned public meetings and street-corner politics.”
http://www.aljazeera.com/blogs/editors-blog/2015/09/kind-politics-britain-150913001016352.html