May 2010
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“It’s rare for an immigrant experience to go the whole 360 in a single...”
– Caitlin Flanagan - Cultivating Failure, The Atlantic Flanagan manages to skewer quite a few bourgeois cows in this short essay about school gardens, Alice Waters, immigrant children, and educational standards. I’m partially with her, but also more open to lots of experimentation with schools...
May 14th
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“You know the problem? It doesn’t matter. It’s really slow to write stuff! You...”
– Steve Jobs from an interview with Walt Mossberg in 2003 discussing tablet computers.
May 13th
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May 11th
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Self-Governance in San Pedro Prison →
by David B. Skarbek [Google Docs, Full Article] “San Pedro Prison in La Paz, Bolivia, provides an opportunity to examine the operation of self-governance in a unique environment and to identify how robust self-enforcing merchanims are for biased agents. In contrast to the situation at Andersonville prison camp in Georgia during the U.S. Civil War, no group of individuals dominates San...
May 11th
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“Imagine going back 20 years and telling people they won’t make voice calls, but...”
– Paul Bucheit, The Future is Lightweight Conversation I really hope that Paul is right: that these interactions form the basis for more substantive conversations. The worry is that it doesn’t happen—or that all the lightweight conversation happens on the web and all the substantive...
May 5th
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ListenAloe Blacc - I Need a Dollar   indirectly via...
May 3rd
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May 3rd
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