“The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste, they have absolutely no taste…in the sense that they they don’t think of original ideas and they don’t bring much culture into their product.” -Steve Jobs Apple vs Microsoft is a good starting point for talking about taste, because one can be a fan [...]
People love to laugh at hippies. Actually, scratch that. Nobody laughs at rich, successful hippies like Richard Branson or Steve Jobs. More specifically, people love to laugh at dumb, naive, not-yet-successful hippies who haven’t graduated college yet. Or perhaps being rich and successful makes you, by definition, not a hippie but a yuppie. Or something. [...]
Click “Editor” in your WordPress dashboard to view the contents of your theme files, and for those yet uninitiated, what you see will look like a lot of gobbledygook. Even if you are already familiar with the basics of HTML and CSS, there are still what seem like mountains of template tags, functions, loops, and [...]
Andy Albeck has died, aged 89. He was the president of United Artists back in 1980, when he green-lighted Heaven’s Gate, the doomed Michael Cimino production that became one of the most spectacular flops in film history. It was the end of all those big, epic movies that came out back in the 70’s. Prior [...]
A man was stabbed last night in New York City because he is Muslim. It’s amazing what people can be driven to do through sheer ignorance. Nobody is going to build a mosque on Ground Zero. It’s a community center. And there’s already a mosque in the area, anyway. This sort of bigotry, whether it [...]
Personal relationships are not just one currency among many. They are the basis of any functional currency in any market. Back in the 7th Century BCE, when the Anatolian Greek city-state of Lydia began minting gold coins and ingots for the first time in human history, they were not intended to be used as currency. [...]
If American 20-somethings are failing to grow up on time, perhaps we can blame all the crappy teachers they had in school. But how can you tell a good teacher apart from a crappy one? Just ask the LA Times. They’ve conducted a study of math and English test scores for students in the Los [...]
“I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today.” -Hesiod, 8th Century BCE “It’s the economy, stupid.” -Bill Clinton, 1992 CE A hundred years ago, after years of observing individuals who are too old to be children and too young to be adults, psychologists [...]
Don’t sweat the small stuff. And rejection is small stuff. There’s something deeply unattractive about the word “rejection.” First of all, it reminds me of the word “injection,” which is a scary word when you’re a kid. Then there’s all the zero-sum anxiety they put you through in the course of standardized education. A “no” [...]
The way we all communicate with one another has been re-designed from the ground up. Social media, though used too much as an empty buzzword, is a real thing. And because it’s so unprecedented, the problems it gives rise to are new and unique. Case in point: there used to be two “personality types” called [...]
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