“We experiment; we assume; we fail; we experiment some more. Finally, tentatively, we succeed.” - Megan Garber on the City of Tomorrow and the dead dream of the dirigible. She continues, “[They are] ...
“We are no longer designers or writers or technologists, we’re creators.” That’s Barbara deWilde in “Can You Teach Someone to Be an Entrepreneur?”, a response to the class carefully crafted and led @...
The something else approach: [Y]ou don’t begin with a grand conception, either of the great American novel or a masterpiece that will hang in the Louvre. You begin with a feel for the nitty-gritty ma...
Frank Chimero and I came together over a shared commitment to jazz. But not only exchanges of music. We emulated the form. He would write a blog post. I would respond. I would improvise one of his hu...
Time after time: Ephemeral New York chronicles the worthiness of timepieces on New York’s Fifth Avenue: A grand avenue like Fifth should be adorned with lovely, stately street clocks, right?New York ...
“Innovation can’t happen without accepting the risk that it might fail. The vast and radical innovations of the mid-20th century took place in a world that, in retrospect, looks insanely dangerous an...
Everything you know lost in translation: The forest of symbols, The eye beguiled: Tree of smoke Through the language glass, Everything you know Lost in translation. That’s Stan Carey with a #bookmash...
So.: During a fairly riveting analysis of the discourse marker “so,” the Lexicon Valley podcast gives an unexpected definition of discourse analysis: Discourse analysts view language as a kind of inf...
“Those who have a memory are able to live in the fragile present moment. Those who have none, don’t live anywhere.” —Patricio Guzmán, director, Nostalgia de la Luz, or Nostalgia for the Light [Image:...
“No one is a foreigner in New York. And in New York, you walk. Your rapport with the terrain is like nowhere else; you measure distances with your bones and your muscles. You build a physical relatio...
“It doesn’t matter the work — it matters that you work with care and hard and long and farther and keep learning. Always learn.” That’s my taxi driver speeding toward JFK toda...
Entrepreneur designers in final form: It’s spring. And in schools across neighborhoods everywhere, students are wrapping up projects. This semester @svaixd, Gary Chou and Christina Cacioppo are teach...
The age of noise : Marc Weidenbaum on forms of noise: I am very much the sort of person who is aggravated by sounds as seemingly tiny as the hard drive chatter on the Tivo in my living room, and by t...
On the Salvador Dali of magic: Career advice from one half of magician duo, Penn & Teller: Have heroes outside of magic. Mine are Hitchcock, Poe, Sophocles, Shakespeare, and Bach. You’re welcome to b...
Happiness is not a destination: Tony Chu, MFA candidate, turns around a Quora answer for first-time entrepreneurs that answers “what part of the process are people often completely blind to?” An idea...
Risk as feelings thesis: Stanford economist George Loewenstein on how the brain makes decisions and something called the Risk as Feelings thesis: He argued we overreact emotionally to new risks (whic...
For spontaneitys space: Jonah Lehrer on the value of hurling people together told through a story of MIT’s Building 20 [referred to by MIT people as “the magic incubator”]: The lesson of Building 20 ...
“To be a writer I think you’re kind of constitutionally disposed toward optimism.” - Malcolm Gladwell cf. The Optimism Bias, or Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
The discipline of making: The difference between making and meeting: If you’re rushing to make a train, you have to be there before the last moment. Five seconds too late is too late. The cost of err...
We are our own best advisors. Often, the best discovery of myself, then, comes from a serendipitous archeology of my own writing. Today, as I consider love, I did some excavation on my writing to dis...
The genesis of browser names: Martin Beeby on the origin of popular browser names. On my browser of choice: While there was a codename vote early in Chrome’s development, none were finally chosen (I’...
Linguistic relativity: How language affects economic behavior has been hotly discussed of late, primarily due to an unpublished paper from Yale economist Keith Chen on the same: Chen […] thinks that ...
Odes to iPads: iPad poetic practicum: I prefer to fall asleep while reading, an excellent way to avoid those nocturnal thoughts that can suddenly jerk you into wretched wakefulness. On chilly nights,...
Teammates: Somewhere among E.B. White and Adam Gopnik there is Cord Jefferson: I’ve never felt more important than when I lived in New York. I was poor and my work was neither very good nor very well...
In commons: Chris Mizes on the seemingly quiet dredge as co-creation between the natural and its urban counterpart: [T]his massive assemblage of global weather patterns, regional tourism, lunar gravi...
Weathering weather derivatives: Reportedly, “weather derivatives” are not only a thing, but a growing market: Financial contracts based on the weather have been around since at least the late 1990s. ...
10 ways to be invisible, or rules for making: Elmore Leonard with rules to remain invisible when writing a book that help show rather than tell. Number 10 and the unofficial number 11: 10. Try to lea...
All of the active three-letter airport codes organized in alphabetical order. Part of A series of Flight Postcards, a set of postcards curated by Leah Beeferman and published by Projectile Press. For...
“Happiness is the most important metric in personal tech. If it improves lives, it is important.” - Brian Lam, The Wirecutter. cf. Informationally, we are becoming lard-asses. In the pageview and rat...
The hill approach: Seth Godin on the hill approach to career development: Repeating easy tasks again and again gets you not very far. Attacking only steep cliffs where no progress is made isn’t parti...
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