Based on a true story
The Americas light up in this composite image made by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite. NASA reports the image was made over nine days in April and 13 days in October. According to NASA, 312 orbits were required to get a clear shot of each parcel of the Earth’s surface. Additionally, the image shows Superstorm Sandy making landfall over New Jersey on Oct. 29.
(via The Week in Pictures: Nov. 29 – Dec. 6- slideshow – slide – 1 – NBCNews.com)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb4VYv8JTBQ
This is the first time I’ve been chased by wild turkeys on the way to work. Their pursuit concerned me at first, especially since my people had just finished massacring and eating their people, but early in the chase it became clear they were friendly, playful even.
Now I know where the term ‘Turkey Trot’ comes from.
We get what we click on. Alas, we also get what others click on. And society does a poor job of marketing productive media to itself.
There is an ancient pact between tools and their users which says that tools should be used by their users, and not the other way around. Good tools should help their users accomplish a task by satisfying some pre-existing urge and then getting out of the way. Attention economies, at their most addictive, violate this pact. Like good medicine, good tools should appear briefly when you need them, and then disappear, leaving you free to get on with your life.
Instead of looking for tools to solve problems, look to solve problems with tools. It is a subtle but important distinction.
This made me happy. Then sad.
This is a page from The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Visual Micro-Tales of Our Shared Humanity.
via Brain Pickings
Attention is the most valuable and limited resource
Every day you spend more time, and tomorrow you have less than you had yesterday. You can’t make more, and you can’t really buy more, so it’s limited and fleeting and those are the rules.
But there’s something even more limited than time. It’s your attention. Attention is a subset of time, therefore it’s more limited. How you spend your attention is more important than how you spend your time.
I should do something special for my 1,00th post. But I’m not going to. This is it.
There are so many potential vices in the world over which one must exert self control: Drinking, food, gambling, etc. These are all fine in moderation, but shouldn’t be over-indulged in lest they become deleterious to health and happiness.
But can’t coffee just be something we drink as much as we want, with no underlying guilt or fear of abuse? COFFEE IS SO DAMN GOOD. The way it flows through your belly and into your veins, making life more vibrant — more full. It is a peerless beverage.
It might be time to add Taipei to the list of vacation destinations.
Super Moon with Taipei 101 (by Chih-Jan Fan)
