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Sun Nov 23
“ Obama can inspire us, and even remove some of the obsolete regulations preventing progressive activities from taking hold. His ability to lead us out of this mire will be limited, however, by our own capacity to engage. Douglas Rushkoff » President Obama
Rushkoff and Reverend Billy, dreaming of the real
Thu Nov 20
Comparisons between Barack Obama and FDR are misguided
Tue Nov 18
“ It is precisely because our present life is so inseparably linked with desire that we must make use of desire’s tremendous energy if we wish to transform our life into something transcendental.
One Day Poem Pavilion
(via askjerves)

askjerves:

Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman to Barack Obama: be ambitious (really ambitious)!

Beltway CW bellwether Fareed Zakaria to Barack Obama: be ambitious!

Former Secretary of Labor and current Obama adviser Robert Reich to Barack Obama: be ambitious!

Nobel-winning climate advocate Al Gore to Barack Obama: be ambitious!

Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz to Barack Obama: be ambitious!

Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Jared Bernstein of EPI — writing together! — to Barack Obama: be ambitious!

Political analyst E.J. Dionne to Barack Obama: be ambitious!

Energy expert Michael Northrup to Barack Obama: be ambitious!

Princeton history and public affairs professor Julian Zelizer to Barack Obama: be ambitious!

Barack Obama to anxious pundits: relax, I’m on it.

“ By the cultural standards of the 20th century, my newfangled glocal lifestyle ought to bother me… However, I’ve been at this life for years now; I really tried; the traditional regret is just not happening. Clearly the existence of the net has obliterated many former operational difficulties. Furthermore, my sensibility no longer operates in that 20th-century framework. That’s become an archaic way to feel, and I just can’t get there from here. Bruce Sterling: The Last Viridian Note
Sun Nov 16
“ These are stories about people who were given a special opportunity to work really hard and seized it, and who happened to come of age at a time when that extraordinary effort was rewarded by the rest of society. Malcolm Gladwell asks is there such a thing as pure genius? | Books | The Guardian
Mon Nov 10
“ Eventually every programmer becomes entangled in a system that is overwhelming in its complexity. As we grow in our abilities as programmers we learn to tackle increasingly complex systems. But every human programmer has limits, and some systems are just too hard to grapple with… . The scary thing is that it’s very easy, as a programmer standing at the precipice of complexity, to envision systems that are orders of magnitude more complex, millions of times more complex, even unimaginably more complex. In the end, programming shows us how small we are. Stevey’s Blog Rants: A programmer’s view of the Universe, part 1: The fish
“ But it was whether he had that pathological drive to be president. You know, so often, what defines presidential candidates is this need to be president, to define themselves. He didn’t have that. And, you know, we told him, ‘You’re gonna have to find some other way to motivate yourself.’ And he did, which was what he could do as president. Obama’s Brain Trust Speaks