Being there–in the arena–gives you the clarity of experience; it’s a sixth sense that is the ability to know which pieces of advice are important. Unfortunately, the most important lessons you can learn from people with experience tend to be things you don’t think are important until you have experience.
Turning two
Today we celebrated my middle child’s second birthday. His buddies and their families gathered together for a fun get together at his favorite playground.
It’s amazing to think “I have a two-year old!” And then even more amazing to remember that he’s not the oldest or the youngest. He’s the best friend to his older brother and a loving protector to his little sister.
He has been such a joy to be around for the first two years of his life. I look forward to watching him get bigger, getting to know him as he starts to talk more, and being there for him as he grows into a young man.
Happy Birthday, son!
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One sided football
Jon Bois created one of the most lopsided football games ever. Sunday’s Super Bowl should be closer. I remember fixing games by creating souped-up players with unbeatable abilities like this in one of the older PC NBA games years ago, but I never achieved a point spread like his.
Meet your new robot overlords
Google is building an army—a robot army—through a series of recent acquisitions. It’s interesting to see the variety of real world applications these robotics companies are already pursuing and imagine what they will be able to do in the future. Gizmodo recently took a closer look at what the eight most recent acquisitions are making.
Robot technology would help with self-driving cars, certainly, but the range of these acquisitions hints at even broader ambitions. Again, we don’t know much. They’re all a part of the Google X division, which is top secret by definition. We do know what the new companies in the Google family are up to, though, and that might offer us some clues.
Personally, I’ll feel safer driving in South Florida once robots pilot more of the vehicles on the road. Robot drivers will be far more predictable than the ones on the road now. However, I’m not sure how I’d feel about this guy walking down the street towards me…
…or have this thing galloping in my direction.
Catching up on Football
Thank goodness for this ESPN summary of the 2013 NFL season. Without it, I’d be completely lost going into Sunday’s Super Bowl.
If you’re like me and don’t watch any games besides the big one at the end, it only takes 160 seconds to catch up on the action and stories.
Steve’s advice for graduates
All the chatter about the 30 year anniversary of the Mac today got me thinking about Steve Jobs’ Stanford commencement speech.
It’s still so good. And here’s a cool graphical depiction of his speech.
Enjoy each moment any way you like
Sometimes it’s best to just enjoy a moment. Sometimes you’ll pay attention to it more with a camera in hand. Sometimes you create the moment by messing with someone with a strong opinion.
Filmography 2013
I haven’t seen nearly enough of these movies from 2013. I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of year end reviews.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
What to Read Next : InstaRank – v1.0
What to Read Next : InstaRank – v1.0
Instapaper’s new(ish) InstaRank feature on iOS is really helpful for picking out what to read next. It lets me find what’s popular now from among the articles in my reading list and lets me filter my list based on the amount of time I have to read.
One of our ambitions since taking on Instapaper has been to build useful ways to make the reading experience more productive. To us, that means making it easy to find the best article to read (or video to view) for the moment you’re in. To that end, we’ve added a bunch of sorting and filtering capabilities into the new iOS 7 app for iPhones. (They’ll show up in the very near future on our iPad and Android apps, and in the web interface.)