It’s not an accident that almost all the executives in charge of Microsoft’s music, e-books, phone, online, search and tablet efforts over the past decade have left.

— Dick Brass, Microsoft’s Creative Destruction

Posted Monday, February 8th, at 8:06 AM technology business Comments (View)
In the moment, you’re angry, and focusing only on that one awful person that did you wrong. Your thinking is clouded. You start thinking everyone is awful, and see the world as against you. This is a horrible time to make a new policy.

— Derek Sivers, Resist the urge to punish everyone for one person’s mistake [via Merlin Mann]

Posted Sunday, February 7th, at 8:06 AM business mistakes Comments (View)
I have a choice of believing the 98 percent or the 2 percent. If you believe my 98 percent and we go ahead and try to reduce our carbon, we’ve gotten rid of the dirty fuel, we’ve made ourselves energy independent, improved our national security, improved our prosperity and quality of life and health for American citizens. If we believe Mr. Blankenship and his 2 percent, and they’re wrong, the whole of civilization is destroyed.

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., quoted by Erica Peterson in Blankenship, Kennedy debate coal, climate change [via Al Gore]

Posted Saturday, February 6th, at 8:06 AM global warming debate Comments (View)
…the First Amendment to this Constitution shall not be construed to limit the power of the People to restrict any significant and disproportionate non-party financial influence during the last 60 days before an election, where such influence would reasonably draw into doubt the integrity or independence of any elected official.

— From a proposed constitutional amendment in reaction to Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commisson, from Change Congress’s Call A Convention

Posted Friday, February 5th, at 8:06 AM corruption politics Comments (View)
We should reward people who kick significant ass and then go home. Early. Not those who pull all-nighters for things that were never that complex to begin with. All sorts of goodness happens when managers learn to reward results, not effort.

— Scott Berkun, Should Americans get more vacation?

Posted Thursday, February 4th, at 8:06 AM business vacation work/life balance Comments (View)
No matter how I look at the issue, I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens

— Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Top Defense Officials Seek to End ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ [via Political Wire]

Posted Wednesday, February 3rd, at 8:06 AM LGBT miliart Comments (View)
A comment on the Supreme Court’s decision of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commssion [via Charlie Todd]

A comment on the Supreme Court’s decision of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commssion [via Charlie Todd]

Found via charlietodd. Posted Tuesday, February 2nd, at 8:05 AM free speech business Comments (View)

Real Work is not formatting the margins, installing the printer driver, uploading the document, finishing the PowerPoint slides, running the software update or reinstalling the OS.

The Real Work is teaching the child, healing the patient, selling the house, logging the road defects, fixing the car at the roadside, capturing the table’s order, designing the house and organising the party.

— Fraser Speirs, Future Shock [via Marco Arment]

Posted Monday, February 1st, at 8:04 AM technology usability Comments (View)
We silence the cognitive dissonance through self-imposed ignorance.

— Jonah Lehrer, quoting from his book How We Decide, in Cable News [via James]

Posted Sunday, January 31st, at 8:03 AM belief ideas Comments (View)
The surprise came at the conclusion of the event.… Weak human + machine + better process was superior to a strong computer alone and, more remarkably, superior to a strong human + machine + inferior process.

— Garry Kasparov, The Chess Master and the Computer [via Idea of the Day]

Posted Saturday, January 30th, at 8:03 AM chess expertise Comments (View)
From the MTA: “1 of 2 caverns that will house LIRR platforms and tracks underneath the lower level of Grand Central Terminal.” More photos

From the MTA: “1 of 2 caverns that will house LIRR platforms and tracks underneath the lower level of Grand Central Terminal.” More photos

Posted Friday, January 29th, at 8:02 AM higher resolution transit construction Comments (View)
The human brain has a remote root exploit in 70% of the installed base

— Notes on a talk by Matt Knox, speaking about the Milgram Experiment, in On Weakness [via Aaron Swartz]

Posted Thursday, January 28th, at 8:01 AM ethics evil Comments (View)
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