I want the car culture to fall down tomorrow, and I no longer care who knows it. I want the end of single-occupant vehicles, and the end of suburbs that force us to drive 30 or 40 miles to get to a job. I want the end of plastic food produced in a factories thousands of miles away rather than grown in local community gardens and on nearby farms; and an end to clothing made in China by poverty-wage workers and shipped overseas, instead of sewn by us at the kitchen table. I want the end of over-programmed childrens’ schedules that force us to schlep the kids all over hither and yon, and jobs that require so much of our time away from our homes, gardens and families that we no longer have time to live as deliberately as our great-grandparents did.
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“I want the car culture to fall down tomorrow, and I no longer care who knows it. I want the end of…”
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Errol Morris on Stupidity
My definition of a stupid person. A stupid person is a person who
treats a smart person as though they’re stupid.
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One of the problems with pageview billing is that it…
One of the problems with pageview billing is that it incentivizes publishers to distract you while reading.
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We sometimes underestimate the influence of little things.
We sometimes underestimate the influence of little things.
– Charles W. Chesnutt
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“i *love* editing…if i had the time, i’d erase everything i’ve ever done”
i *love* editing…if i had the time, i’d erase everything i’ve ever done
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rands: The idea that anyone besides you is responsible for your career is flawed.
The idea that anyone besides you is responsible for your career is flawed.
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“Remember people, just because you can’t think of a different solution to your problem…”
“Remember people, just because you can’t think of a different solution to your problem doesn’t mean it can’t exist”
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“There is a lesson here for ambitious system architects: the most dangerous enemy of a better…”
There is a lesson here for ambitious system architects: the most dangerous enemy of a better solution is an existing codebase that is just good enough.
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“Much of what we called ‘depression’ was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly…”
“Much of what we called ‘depression’ was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures that we weren’t willing to work for.”
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It’s important to take bad pictures.
It’s important to take bad pictures. It’s the bad ones that have to do with what you’ve never done before. They can make you recognize something you hadn’t seen in a way that will make you recognize it when you see it again.”
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