November 2011
11 posts
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“Kahneman never grapples philosophically with the nature of rationality. He does,...”
– Jim Holt
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“The legal “puzzle” raised by modern blackmail is that although it is...”
– R.H. Helmholz, The Roman Law of Blackmail, Journal of Legal Studies XXX(1)
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“It appears that Tumblr built in a day or two what no D.C.-based technology...”
– The statement above is false. I’m one of the co-founders of Mobile Commons, though I no longer work there. The Mobile Commons technology that Tumblr used to build a very nice graphical interface has been available to any organization for going on five years. In fact, it’s been used by...
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. The military alphabet.
Is that military for just saying WTF!? Mind blown.
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“Willem de Kooning, a penniless, 22-year-old commercial artist from the...”
– ~Willem de Kooning, Smithsonian Magazine
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Charlie Kaufman, Why I Wrote Being John Malkovich
“Storytelling is inherently dangerous. Consider a traumatic event in your life. Think about how you experienced it. Now think about how you told it to someone a year later. Now think about how you told it for the hundredth time. It’s not the same thing. Most people think perspective is a good thing: you can figure out characters...
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“The potential miracle of the cookbook was immediately apparent: you start with a...”
– Adam Gopnik, New Yorker: What’s the Recipe?
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“Yet if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the...”
– T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent
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“The click’s idiosyncratic, personal. The only stuff a writer can get from...”
– David Foster Wallace, Interview with Larry McCaffery
Note: See T.S. Eliot’s Tradition and the Individual Talent