Month: January 2014
January 10, 2014
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Babe Ruth and Feature Lists — Bringing the Donuts — Medium
BABE RUTH, 1918 / LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Babe Ruth and Feature Lists Why Prioritized Feature Lists Can Be Poisonous In 2007 I was a product manager on Google Docs . Docs was barely a year old, stemming from the acquisition of a marvelous startup called Writely. We were still nailing the basics. (On the…
January 9, 2014
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I’d love to play a video game based on these game mechanics. Very cool.
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I feel the same way about Bobby Womack’s “Across 110th Street”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Across_110th_Street
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Seriously doubt I’ll ever get tired of “Pumped Up Kicks”.
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Worth Reading: “The First World Problem | Hazlitt”
http://www.randomhouse.ca/hazlitt/feature/first-world-problem
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That’s insane.
MT @Reuters: Half of black males and 40% of white males arrested in US by 23
http://reut.rs/1erc56I
January 8, 2014
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♫ ♫ “Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis” ♫ ♫
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Solid (comic) advice from xkcd:
http://xkcd.com/1314/
January 7, 2014
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Pick the right metric to incentivize the behavior you want – The Effective Engineer
In Good to Great , Jim Collins recounts the story of how Walgreens CEO Cork Walgreen grew the company to be the largest drug retailing chain in America. $1 invested in Walgreens in 1975 would skyrocket to $562 by 2000 under his leadership, easily beating the stock market index by over fifteen times.…
January 5, 2014
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I think @reshminair has a hit on her hands with @cbcfourrooms.
It’s Dragons’ Den meets Antiques Roadshow.
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If you are against GMOs I encourage you to read this NYT article with an open mind:
http://ift.tt/1eaI236
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Worth Reading: “A Lonely Quest for Facts on Genetically Modified Crops”
http://ift.tt/1eaI236
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Amazing.
A Honeymooners episode about getting a telephone what we can watch on YouTube:
January 4, 2014
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Worth Reading: “Sherlock and Doctor Who: beware of fans influencing the TV they love”
http://ift.tt/19ORx5z
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Worth Reading: “Basketball, Football, and Hockey Are All the Same Game”
http://ift.tt/1dxwj0f
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You Are Less Beautiful Than You Think: Scientific American
Credit: iStock/ Gruizza In April 15, 2013 Dove launched a 3-minute video entitled “Dove Real Beauty Sketches.” The video achieved instant popularity and has been watched millions of times — a successful viral campaign which has been widely talked about . In the video, a small group of women are…
January 2, 2014
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Worth Reading: “Taking Your Brand from Commodity to Lovemark with Social Media”
http://ift.tt/17KjPvG
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Forget treadmill desks, 2014 will be the year of the soaker tub desk.
January 1, 2014
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Most everything reminds you of something.
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Worth Reading: “Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates”
http://ift.tt/xFyFsd
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Worth Reading: “Whether to delegate”
http://ift.tt/1ggm68U
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“It looks like aliens to me,” Manuel Madrid of nearby Gonzales told KSBW.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/31/us/california-crop-circle/
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Spent some time this afternoon building the Guggenheim Museum. pic.twitter.com/n8FagQbUuz
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Why Rational People Buy Into Conspiracy Theories – NYTimes.com
Illustration by Matt Dorfman In the days following the bombings at the Boston Marathon, speculation online regarding the identity and motive of the unknown perpetrator or perpetrators was rampant. And once the Tsarnaev brothers were identified and the manhunt came to a close, the speculation didn’t…
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Worth Reading: “Visit to the World’s Fair of 2014”
http://ift.tt/18OHwFT