Does anybody still take these “YOU are responsible for your destiny blahblah 8 things every person should do yadda yadda etc.” type of articles seriously? I mean if they actually worked there wouldn’t be hundreds of websites churning this stuff out daily.

Good post. It’s never the tools. Ever. Not having the tools is just another excuse for not doing the thing. I saved myself £1200 by buying a £200 laptop running Ubuntu (to learn programming and the command line) rather than a Mac. Having the expensive tool never equates to ‘spending more time doing x' ESPECIALLY when it comes to making the effort to…

Ethical Work

One of the really damaging notions that my generation (‘millennials’) inherited from the cultural friction between boomers and gen-xers is the idea that you’re supposed to find ‘meaningful’ work. In practice what this means is that you’re supposed to find work that is meaningful to you, and in practice…

held!

I held my head in my hands, telling myself softly that this too would pass. My head felt heavy, heavier than usual and this time, for once, the weight in my head was not something I had fashioned out for style, by myself. The heaviness in my top shelf was shifting gears, upping the ante; the pain radiating from it…

Government research contracts that help build Stanford which begat Sun Micro Systems who sold their pizza box computers for millions in to the Defense Department and public(government) universities.

Cisco millions in defense contracts for infrastructure, Apple developed the Mac after Steve Jobs views a Xerox demo of their…