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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 -
The revolution will not be centralized →
“Quietly and sanely this new encyclopaedia will, not so much overcome these archaic discords, as deprive them, steadily but imperceptibly, of their present reality.” - World Brain, H.G. Wells, 1937
There will be no petition to sign, no manifesto to read
no flag to wave, no anthem to sing.
There will be no soundtrack for our nostalgia
because the revolution will not be centralized.
There will be no leaders or followers
no winners or losers
There will be no beginning, middle or end
because the revolution will not be centralized.
If you can respond, you are response-able.
If you are a passenger, you are the crew.
If you want to be a spectator, you have to be part of the spectacle
because the revolution will not be centralized.
We will not have to agree
we will not have to conspire
we will not even have to fully understand
because the revolution will not be centralized.
The revolution can not be built, designed, or engineered …
The revolution can only grow.You are the seed, you are the soil, and you are the buzzing of the bee.
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(via FT.com / FT Magazine - In pictures: Stephen Fry meets Lady Gaga)
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Many times you’ll find things that feel like passions in the beginning but you realize you don’t like that much after putting more energy into it. That’s fine. It’s part of the process. Just pick up something new that interests you and run with it. If it feels wrong consider dropping it. But if it feels right keep going. And going.
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The Attorney-General’s kind remarks are noted and appreciated. I’ve spoken to Ed Burns and we are prepared to go to work on season six of The Wire if the Department of Justice is equally ready to reconsider and address its continuing prosecution of our misguided, destructive and dehumanising drug prohibition.
– The Wire creator David Simon, in an e-mail to the Times of London responding to Attorney General Eric Holder’s demand for an additional season of the acclaimed HBO series.(via underpaidgenius)
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Alphaland →
Haunting.
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In memoriam
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A lof this angst is about conventions, and conventions evolve, which always horrifies those who have acquired privilege and power by mastering certain conventions while dismissing others.
– Why Twitter’s Oral Culture Irritates Bill Keller (and why this is an important issue) | technosociology
