July 2011
21 posts
From the beauty is only skin deep department... →
Why we don't want the whole world to speak... →
Via Henry.
So there, facebook. →
WatchLove. Art. Watch. Love.
What can I say? I'm in love.
Warren Buffett on social media investments. “A few of them will be worth enormous amounts,” he said. But “I don’t know which ones.”
More here.
What the internet does best... →
I'm all about connections all of a sudden... →
From my Oldest...
“I’ve experienced many terrible things in my life, few of which actually happened.”
-Mark Twain
Migration made visible. →
And beautiful.
Via Brainpicker
WatchMilton Glaser stays astonished.
Time. Passed. →
“Most everything I’ve learned in film or otherwise has been by just diving in and...”
– David Hillman Curtis
Got Tivo? →
HBO. Tonight. 9PM.
Want to cry first thing Monday morning? →
In a good way.
How I plan my trips...
Almost. But I do have Evernote and, trust me, you should too.
Filed under: "Before I go..." →
“It’s one of those things that I should always remember, to try and take the...”
– David Hillman Curtis
Filed under: "Wonder if I'll ever actually be wise... →
June 2011
23 posts
Are you this good at YOUR job? →
Just when I was getting the hang of it, Twitter... →
Gorgeous. →
College worth it. After all. →
“50 days ago, we set sail with our humble ship on an uneasy and brutal ocean: the...”
– So long, LulzSec.
Am I the only person who had to look up the word... →
Jeez, I hope not.
Read of the Day →
“Basically every time there’s a left handed batter were close to on tv.”
– Oldest, close to on tv
“My first yankee game! Look for me on tv!”
– Oldest, from a distance.
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
– Lao Tzu via Henry
facebook really has no shame. None at all. →
Via Beth Kanter
“Your behavior is the best teacher. It is more powerful than anything you say.”
– Albertina Sisulu’s primary school teacher.
Hey, remember what I said about us being in a...
Back here? Well look what I just read courtesy of Louis Menand in The New Yorker.
If you are friendly toward Theory 2, on the other hand, you worry that the competition for slots in top-tier colleges is warping educational priorities. You see academic tulip mania: students and their parents are overvaluing a commodity for which there are cheap and plentiful substitutes.
Does that give me an...
Listen Up
Excellent article on how lamely most of us listen and what we can do about it. Fave fact:
Other studies indicate that our listening skill suffers as we get older. Ralph G. Nichols… says that “if we define the good listener as one giving full attention to the speaker, first-grade children are the best listeners of all.”
Nichols describes an experiment conducted with the...
Just when you get freaked out about the universe... →
Not as depressing as it sounds...
Dark Energy Will Take Over.
“The purpose in life is not to find yourself. It’s to lose yourself.”
– David Brooks via Rachel Harper
Discuss.
My second follower. And I love him for it. →
Statistic of the day... →
Between 1906 and 1932, four hundred and five boys from Groton applied to Harvard. Four hundred and two were accepted.
Are you offloading your mind? I know I am. →
I’m good with not having to remember phone numbers but do wonder if we might not be making a giant, collective mistake which we will live to regret - if, of course, we can even remember our past enough to regret its passing by then.
I have no idea who my one, yes 1, follower is...
…or how you found me to follow, but thank you.
May 2011
5 posts
Read/watch of the day →
Robert Pinsky first reads his poem, The City, and then imagines it as a Tweet.
“My experience is what I agree to attend to.”
– ”’People don’t understand that attention is a finite resource, like money,’ she said. ‘Do you want to invest your cognitive cash on endless Twittering or Net surfing or couch potatoing? You’re constantly making choices, and your choices determine your experience, just as...
How lame is facebook, anyway? →
Via Paolo.
College without the hangovers... →
Remember what I said about us being in a higher education bubble? Seriously. Who needs college?
April 2011
13 posts
If at first you don't succeed... →
Roger Ebert is a winnah!