Despite his success, my father encouraged an irreverent attitude toward himself. Our dinner conversations were full of tales about mistakes he made during the day: losing his sweater, having conversations with people and not remembering their names. On Sunday mornings, he would often forgo reading the newspaper in favor of a wild hour of loud, often discordant music, drumming, and storytelling with my brother and me. When it was his turn to drive the car pool to elementary school, he would pretend to get lost. “No, not that way!” all the kids would scream. “Oh, all right. Is it this way?” and he would turn the wrong way again. “Nooooooo!” we would yell in utter panic.
see paul run
also at http://paulmckellar.com
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2013-05-18
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2013-05-16
Kurt Braunohler raised $6,000 on Kickstarter to “hire a man in a plane to write stupid things in the sky”
Source: kurtbraunohler
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2013-05-11
PIcasso’s Bulls
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2013-05-10
there is no losing
Source: monoscope
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2013-05-07
Wired:
Peter Thiel, expressing his dissatisfaction with technology’s progress, recently noted, ‘We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.’ Do you agree with him?
Bill Gates:
I feel sorry for Peter Thiel. Did he really want flying cars? Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another. On the other hand, 20 years ago we had the idea that information could become available at your fingertips. We got that done. Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it.—
Bill Gates in a recent Wired interview with Steven Levy
[via Gary Tan]
(via whitneymcn)
(via fred-wilson)
Source: whitneymcn
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2013-05-03
wizard if oz
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2013-05-02
School of ballet in Cuba.
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2013-05-01
Inventing the future. Shannon birthday was yesterday.
http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/11173/34541425.pdf
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2013-04-30
No. Burnout is caused when you repeatedly make large amounts of sacrifice and or effort into high-risk problems that fail. It’s the result of a negative prediction error in the nucleus accumbens. You effectively condition your brain to associate work with failure.
Subconsciously, then eventually, consciously, you wonder if it’s worth it. The best way to prevent burnout is to follow up a serious failure with doing small things that you know are going to work.— I remember reading this published insight[1] from Marissa Mayer a few months ago… | Hacker News
Source: news.ycombinator.com
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