43 Folders: Time, Attention, and Creative Work | 43 Folders
"Friends, I’m done with “productivity” as a personal fetish or hobby. There are countless sites that are all too happy to vend stroke material for your joyless addiction to puns about procrastination and systems for generating more taxonomically satisfying meta-work. But, presently, you won’t find so much of that here."
(tags: via:vielmetti productivity getting-things-done business-culture creativity mission )
Locus Online Features: Cory Doctorow: Macropayments
"Taking someone’s money is expensive. It incurs transaction and bookkeeping costs and it incurs emotional and social costs. Micropayments have historically focused on eliminating the cash overheads while ignoring the intangible costs. For a writer whose career might span decades and involve hundreds of thousands of readers, these costs cannot be ignored."
(tags: business-model marketing attention cultural-norms...
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Post Date: 2008-03-04 22:25:05
Green Gabbro : Oops! I’m Perjured Again
“We’re just making sure that men and women of integrity can never hold public office.” and there you have it
(tags: oath allegiance cultural-norms government lawyers diversity bad-design )
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Post Date: 2008-03-05 22:24:34
naked capitalism: Surprise! Commercial Real Estate Woes Will Hit Wall Street
“It’s a no-brainer that financial firms would be hit by the commercial real estate downturn.”
(tags: real-estate investment finance economics news newspaper local Ann-Arbor future )
Click opera - A post-Blink essentialist, looking at Asian space
“Reality,” said Willem de Kooning, “is a slipping glimpse”
(tags: psychology genera...
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Post Date: 2008-03-06 22:20:06
“basic tenant of” OR “fundamental tenant of” - Google Search
simple renters?
(tags: English typo grammar abuse bad writing amusing eggcorn )
SimTK - the Simulation Toolkit, part of the Simbios project
Seems like a useful starting point for a genetic programming excursion….
(tags: via:rosefirerising simulation visualization biomechanics medicine software models modeling )
EconPapers: Does Televisi...
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Post Date: 2008-03-07 22:23:35
On Reinventing the Sacred → log → station11
“…would I give up the internet for the reclamation of the Dodo or the carrier pigeon?”
(tags: cultural-norms religion rationalism forteanism Stuaty-Kauffman musing )
My Back Pages
(tags: art collection photography mail-art book-art people-I-know-but-not-enough-yet )
Lockhart’s Lament
READ THIS. All of you.
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