Month: August 2012
An Unusual Final Exam
Tyler Cowen1 once walked into class the day of the final exam and he said. “Here is the exam. Write your own questions. Write your own answers. Harder questions and better answers get more points.” Then he walked out.
I don’t think I could handle that kind of test. via
- Tyler Cowen is a professor of economics at George Mason University and author of a number of economics books I have not read. ↩
Google Analytics in real life
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I’m confident the new iPhone will have more new features than this, but this version should suit most use cases.
LEAKED Official Apple iPhone 5 Promo Video – Keynote 2012
This will help a lot of people.
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The 20 most-watched TED Talks to date
The 20 most-watched TED Talks to date
TED is dedicated to ideas worth spreading. And that leaves many wondering exactly which ideas have been spread the most widely in the six years that TEDTalks videos have been available online.
I’ve seen several of the videos on this list already (and posted links to a few of them), but I may take some time this weekend to finish out the list.
The Great Discontent: Seth Godin
I read Seth Godin’s blog almost every day, but this interview of him in The Great Discontent provides a lot of background into how he got where he is, and where he’s going with his work.
When I was 14, two things happened. One, I started my first little business and two, I started reading my father’s copies of Forbes magazine. What I discovered is that some people were able to make a living basically doing what I do now. There are plenty of people who back into what it is they want to do, but even though I took many side roads along the way, this is exactly what I wanted to do 40 years ago. I’m thrilled that the universe lined up to let someone as easily distracted and ADD as me figure out a way to earn a fine living making a ruckus and helping people get to where they want to go.
Subway Poetry
Subway Cento is a website by Jack Cheng that makes short poems out of subway station ads. Cheng snaps photos of text in the subway ads and then stitches them together to make short poems like this: