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“…these kinds of peer-to-peer transactions that are going to do to central currency what Craiglist did to newspapers.”
The rhythm between Rushkoff and his interviewer limps at times — too much speaking before the other is finished. But what a solid ending.
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Playboy Interview: Steven Jobs (1985) →
A gold mine.
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to feel comfortable being wrong before being right; to live in the world as a careful observer, open to different experiences; to play with ideas without prematurely judging oneself or others; to persist through difficulties; and to have a willingness to be misunderstood, sometimes for long periods, despite the conventional wisdom.
– Peter Sims, on Finding Creativity Through Imperfection - NYTimes.com6 months ago / 0 notes / / Source:
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I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one. You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.
– Albert Einstein’s religious views - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia6 months ago / Notes / / Source:
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We didn’t build libraries for an already literate citizenry. We built libraries to help citizens become literate. Today we build open data portals not because we have a data or public policy literate citizenry, we build them so that citizens may become literate in data, visualization, coding and public policy.
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THE SOUNDS OF NEURONS TALKING
In 2008, biologist and author Professor Brian Ford localised the sound of neurons communicating with one another.
Cultured brain cells in the lab, when sending an impulse or what’s known as spiking, make a crazy little buzz sound around 40Mhz. Professor Ford took this sound and stretched it out to 20 seconds to hear what is inside the spike. He believes since that nerve cells are the most developed, they do more than just turn on and off, which is what sends or receives signals and where many believe thought to originate from….he believes that the thought is in the nerve cell. Via. Image.
Eerily reminiscent…
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“The simplest and most radical thing that Ridley Scott did with Blade Runner was to put urban archeology in the frame. It hadn’t been obvious to mainstream American science fiction that cities are like compost heaps — just layers and layers of stuff. In cities, the past and the present and the future can all be totally adjacent. In Europe, that’s just life — it’s not science fiction, it’s not fantasy. But in American science fiction, the city in the future was always brand-new, every square inch of it.”
— William Gibson, on Blade Runner
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(thx Nathaniel)
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“The trick is never in building the best possible implementation — the trick is in building the implementation that will provide the best possible future.”
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Guy English, Regarding Simplicity (via Buzz)
Guy’s argument is being made within the context of software development, but I believe is equally applicable to all work.
Restated somewhat differently: Abandon perfection for generativity. Perfection is without your grasp, but collective greatness is not. To do this, you must understand the interconnected, cumulative nature of your (and all) work and you must build with the specific intent of benefitting your future self (and posterity in general.)
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a world where half of homes are run by men, especially raising children, and half our institutions are run by women, especially armies.
– Sheryl Sandberg & Male-Dominated Silicon Valley : The New Yorker
