January 2012
18 posts
‘Your own reality—for yourself, not for others.’ Thinking for...
– The American Scholar: Solitude and Leadership - William Deresiewicz
So it’s perfectly natural to have doubts, or questions, or even just...
– The American Scholar: Solitude and Leadership - William Deresiewicz
I find for myself that my first thought is never my best thought. My first...
– The American Scholar: Solitude and Leadership - William Deresiewicz
December 2011
21 posts
2 tags
Suggestions for effective anti-SOPA action
Reddit is organizing “Dump GoDaddy Day” on 12/29. A likely effect of this action is that GoDaddy drops any vestige of support for SOPA and then immediately fades into the background. This will be a nice win for the Internet, but Congress won’t care. The Internet’s (as it were) great handicap in this battle is a lack of lobbying power, itself a symptom of tech’s...
parislemon: Dear HBO →
erikschwartz:
Jeremy Toeman demonstrates why you should take pretty much everything MG writes about TV with a grain of salt.
parislemon:
First and foremost, I love your content. You’ve produced several of my favorite shows over the years, and the hits keep on coming. I’d love to watch Game of Thrones now, but I can’t. You see, the only way to get your service is to be a cable subscriber, and...
R. Kelly needs funding — AND QUICK — because the singer tells TMZ he’s ready to...
– TMZ.com
If there were ever a perfect, headline Kickstarter project, this is it.
(via dbreunig)
to steal from someone and not feel bad, you either have to be a sociopath or...
– Hi I’m Louis C.K. and this is a thing : IAmA
Louis CK is doing an AMA on Reddit. This is part of his response to a question about his Beacon Theater special, available for download DRM free at louisck.net
In February of 2007, researchers in New Zealand, working with the United States...
– Going the Distance « Now I Know Archives
Hey Tumblr, I'm moving out of the country. So . ....
I recently left IA Ventures to join BillGuard. You should sign up for BillGuard. We protect your credit card like GMail’s antispam filter protects your inbox. Go ahead now, I’ll wait.
[waiting]
Great, now on to the commerce. In January, my wife and I will be decamping from New York for Tel Aviv. We’re taking this opportunity to dramatically reduce the amount of stuff we’ve...
Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22 out of 30 top al-Qaida leaders who’ve been...
– Obama: ‘Ask Osama Bin Laden’ If I’m An Appeaser : The Two-Way : NPR
‘The competitor we fear the most is HBO Go,’ Hastings said today at...
– Netflix chief: HBO Go is rival ‘we fear most’ | Media Maverick - CNET News
‘Talk about content, you got NBC. And wireless, you got this. In...
– Comcast execs: Verizon deal to bring the ‘quadruple play’
“Forever.”
Really not good.
Verizon Wireless has purchased 122 spectrum licenses from a number of cable companies as it aims to bolster and expand its 4G LTE network, the company announced today. The licenses come from Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks, and were purchased for $3.6 billion in total. The purchase is actually for shares of the company SpectrumCo, of which the cable giants each own a chunk....
There is a lot of good, useful stuff, and students should be exposed to it. But...
– EconoSpeak: Mankiw’s Reply to the Walk-Out
This fits well with Kahneman.