The Importance of Abandoning Crap
At first I thought The Importance of Abandoning Crap was a piece about abandoning stuff, a topic I am interested in, but alas I was surprised that it was about another type of abandonment that also hits close to home: Anyone can make something. But to make something great, you have to find the courage… Read →
Your Child Left Behind from The Atlantic
The Atlantic shares some details from an upcoming article from Education Next that outlines a study whereby students from around the world were compared to individual U.S. states. It is the widget with the data from the study that I find interesting, while at the same time the following quote: Meanwhile, a 2010 study of… Read →
For food, the value is already there in the raw goods
If our goal of eating food is to live long and healthy lives, then it follows that we should eat food that would deliver those results: nutrient dense food that delivers the energy we need to get by and causes the least amount of harm to our bodies. By and large my experience in eating… Read →
Dianna Cohen on Plastic Pollution and the TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch
Dianna Cohen, co-founder of the Plastic Pollution Coalition, provides a short Ted talk about the issue of plastic pollution. Its worth a read thru the comments for some more info and links on the issue. The Coalition will be hosting on November 6th a TEDx called the TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch, a one-day event that will bring together… Read →
“Saving the euro” from the Financial Times
I’m a bit too sick to make the effort to tldr this, and it needs to be bookmarked so here it is in Short. Also, I think they have this behind their paywall so if you want to read it maybe search the title of the articles: Saving the euro: Dinner on the edge of… Read →
“I feel like you get better ideas if you think in units of occasional essays rather than a stream of tweets.”
Paul Graham (more here) has a personal website worth spending some time on, even if you are not in the hacking, startup or internet world. He exposed part of the reason why his site is worthwhile, in my opinion, when leaving a comment on Hacker News discussing his Arc programming language: I feel like you… Read →