A man needs, not six feet of land, not a farm, but the whole earth, all Nature, where in full liberty he can display all the properties and qualities of the free spirit.
Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries, 1898
Month: May 2012
I Was a Teenage Minotaur
Being a teenager is hard enough. Now imagine if you had a bull’s head. That’s the premise of this delightful coming of age story by A.G. Pasquella.
At the mall a lady offers me a free sample of zit cream and I’m about to be all sarcastic, like “Look, lady— I’ve got a giant bull’s head. No one’s going to notice a few zits.”
Should I check email? No, probably not.
(via Managing Distraction: How and Why to Ignore Your Inbox – Forbes)
Confessions of a recovering lifehacker
Confessions of a recovering lifehacker
John Pavlus, writing back in 2010 when the Lifehacking thing was still really popular:
[I]t’s just plain easier to tinker and tweak something you assume you’re stuck with, for better or worse, than it is to design something better from scratch. It’s less tiring. It’s less frustrating. It’s less frightening. It takes less commitment. There aren’t any unknown unknowns. The failures are less painful and the successes are more frequent.
Cyclicality: Missions and Metrics
Cyclicality: Missions and Metrics
Sep Kamvar:
A bike strengthens the person who pedals it. Open-source software educates its potential contributors. A hallmark of cyclical tools is that they create open loops: the bike strengthens its rider to do things other than just pedal the bike. Cyclical tools are like trees, whose falling leaves fertilize the soil in which they grow.
via Fred Wilson
Airport security needs to pay attention to some details.