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Great Remixes 15 Jul 2012 | 03:04 am
I try to avoid writing opinion pieces about art. To me there's something incredibly self-indulgent and narcisistic about it. It's like, "Hey guys, my opinion on something inherently subjective is so g...
Some advice on advice 2 May 2012 | 07:51 am
Whether we seek it or not, we will all get a lot of advice in our lifetimes. Some of it will be helpful, most of it will not. The reason? Advice tends to be very self-serving. Even with the best of ...
We are in a bubble. 20 Apr 2012 | 11:30 am
It's hard for me to come up with any title other than one to the point. And in respect to our collective growing attention deficit, I will skip a formal introduction. Here are four reasons why we are...
Is Flow Addictive? 17 Apr 2012 | 04:24 am
By now most people reading this probably know about flow. I’m not talking about water through a pipe, but rather psychological flow: that mental sweet spot where high skill and high challenge meet to ...
In Regard to Marc Andreessen’s “Why Software is Eating the World” 22 Aug 2011 | 05:17 am
Millionaire entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Marc Andreessen, recently wrote an op-ed in the WallStreet Journal that went viral, entitled "Why Software Is Eating The World" In it he argues a few t...
Corporations: Don't hate the player. Hate the game. 10 Jun 2011 | 03:40 pm
In a television show centered on playing with the stereotypes of modern America, Mr. Burns, of The Simpsons, takes on the caricature of the soulless capitalist elite. He has a stranglehold on the town...
My fruit roll-up has a few specks of dog poo on it. I'll just eat around it. 30 May 2011 | 03:44 pm
I hate being called a cynic, or a pessimist, or whatever else word people choose to surreptisciously criticize my better sense of reality. See it occured to me a while ago that my kind understands tha...
Can drinking cold water help you lose weight? 9 Mar 2011 | 12:58 pm
My housemate recently bought a copy of The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman. The author, Timothy Ferriss, professional sociopath and narcisism-...
How come so many business people are douchebags? 30 Jan 2011 | 06:55 pm
You might start by thinking, “what a spectacularly ignorant title for an article! There’s douche bags in all slices of professions and people.” But while that’s true, let me try to convince you that b...
Fulfilling work 24 Jan 2011 | 04:16 pm
An article from an old blog We spend a lot of time at work. I spend my waking life at work. With all this time and all the luxuries of the developed world, are we happy? No. And taylorism, I think,...
