February 2012
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They also engaged in an early 20th-century version of “hooking up.” With women...
– Why I prefer to go dutch.
(Singles in the City, WSJ)
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Sometimes we create amazing things. Sometime we create garbage. The point is to...
– Natalie Goldberg, Wild Mind
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User experience (UX) is now becoming a critical point in customer engagement in...
– Brian Solis, Why User Experience is Critical to Customer Relationships
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Eric Schmidt once quipped that ‘the Internet is the first thing that humanity...
– Evgeny Morozov in “Don’t Be Evil,” The New Republic review of Steven Levy and Siva Vaidhyanathan’s Google books. (via mediology)
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Most days, I feel like most internet writers and editors are engaging in the...
– Brian Lam, Happiness Takes (A Little) Magic
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Informationally, we are becoming lard-asses. In the pageview and ratings driven...
– Brian Lam, Happiness takes a little Magic (Wirecutter)
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The French, I found, seem to have a whole different framework for raising kids....
– Why French Parents are Superior, WSJ
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The seven step, ten minute download process (which will be about ten seconds...
– Paul Tassi, You Will Never Kill Piracy, and Piracy Will Never Kill You (Forbes)
The ability to synthesize different perspectives into the big picture is far...
– Why a Liberal Arts Education Matters - NYTimes.com (via infoneer-pulse)
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If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales.
– Albert Einstein
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January 2012
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People once invested in their memories, they cultivated them. They studiously...
– Joshua Foer (author of Moonwalking with Einstein), on the Cyborg Dilemma
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The inconsistency of genius is a consistent theme of creativity: Even those...
– Jonah Lehrer, on How We Identify Good Ideas
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If all else fails, I drink half a bottle of rum and play a Handel oratorio on...
– David Ogilvy, on his habits as a copywriter.
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“First—if you are in love—that’s a good thing—that’s about the best thing...
– John Stienbeck, on how nothing good gets away.
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During your best years you don’t need a husband. You do need a man of course...
– Helen Gurley Brown, Former Editor of Cosmopolitan.
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I’m not articulate or educated enough to comment on the sad state of the world.
– Alex Moschina, I am the Problem