B-grade politics

and reaction

At the centre of Mark Fisher’s piece (“Exiting the Vampire Castle”) is a proposition that has nothing to do with logic and everything to do with his very specific desires, or more specifically, an enjoyment he regards as having been thwarted by others…

The key challenges in designing a programming language

or “Why there is no (and never will be) a…

Stop jumping from idea to idea and go from concept to profit

Time Frames For Achieving Success Online

Stop communicating your ETA’s

Key to Product Management and Development

South Korea and Estonias’ Suicide Rates: Is it Capitalism?

Serendipity, discovery and collaboration

Ways of discovering new music, new artists, new writers.

We don’t Live in an Emergency Room and Other Maxims for Life

A lightweight collection of practical and witty maxims 

I am a compulsive note taker and collector of quotes. Last week I started sorting them, separating the long…

Parts Per Million performance in Tate Britain

Should a prestigious art gallery take and launder dirty…

A good reason for being fired

How to connect all the smart people in your company

everything’s not about hacking

Σ life ≠ ⨊ hacks especially when it comes to meditation 

Freshman Orientation

Getting a B.S. in Life Crises

Cyberwar: It’s Here, It’s Near, and We’ve Already Gotten Used to It

To live in and through cyberspace…

“Twice as fast” is progress, not innovation

Despite what mobile phone and tablet manufacturers want us…

Dear Hunger Games Fan: You Live in the Capitol

When you watch The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, you’ll probably put yourself in…

知力を磨くべきであり、理解力に精通すべきです

きょうの秘書官会議での講話

If at first you don’t succeed…

Smart Solutions That Inspire

High-five to the underdog

A story of struggle over adversity

The Way Forward

How Iran,and the US Can Partner Together to Support Japan, Save Billions of Lives…

The riots and the media

Originally published in 2011 in response to the London riots

These days, the media is driven by a culture of fear, which is just the way we like it, isn’t it? Gasping at the latest shock headline, or pontificating with…

The power of the mind

Trumping pain for the finish line

Conversa de bar

mas via whatsapp

Ferragini: Achei bizarrissimo esse negócio de não ser ético pros psicólogos pesquisar a fundo a homossexualidade

Zamboni: Pra que saber a origem?
Zamboni: o importante é lidar com isso.

Let’s give RFK some love too.

Every year, on this 22nd day of November, I am reminded not only of JFK’s legacy, but RFK’s story of what could have been.

Note to self: Fix primary system

If we could only fix one thing in American politics, this might be the most important one.

Extremists have taken over our political parties, and we hate the resulting paralysis. Yet…

Ratings, Reviews, Life, and Death

The first installment in an ongoing discussion…

As a registered nurse in an urgent care setting, I am now more aware than ever before of the overuse of antibiotics. In my orthopedic/trauma background, antibiotic…

Unsportsmanlike Conduct

Is the NFL in Trouble?

Unsportsmanlike Conduct

By Joe Bruns — National Football League commissioner Roger Goodell right now might be feeling like the captain of a fishing boat seeing on his radar screen the confluence of…

Stromboli Story

Little deals are telling.

It was during the Federal government shutdown. One day I was craving a veggie stromboli for lunch. I went to the local food court, and at the pizza counter there was one woman ahead of me. I didn’t know her.