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Tumblelog byChristopher Clay, founder of Soup.io.
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Heftling (2012?)
Luminous Flux (2012–) ♥
Mixtapes (2011)
27 (2010) ♥Team Armin Soyka (2010)
26 (2009) ♥
Startupwiki (2009–)
LIF (2008)
Soup (2007–) ♥
Netznetz (2007–2008)
Metalab (2006–) ♥
CanvasPaint (2006)
Design portfolio (2005)
Textcounter.org (2003)
PS: If I write about events, that's cause I'm inviting you to come along. Get in touch!
LIF (2008)
Soup (2007–) ♥
Netznetz (2007–2008)
Metalab (2006–) ♥
CanvasPaint (2006)
Design portfolio (2005)
Textcounter.org (2003)
PS: If I write about events, that's cause I'm inviting you to come along. Get in touch!
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May 02 2012
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April 20 2012
“ Some architects can look at a building and tell you which version of Autodesk was used to create it. ”— #sxaesthetic | booktwo.org
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April 16 2012
“ Es hat ja noch gar keiner unter wirtschaftlichen Gesichtspunkten ausgerechnet, was das später einmal alles kostet, wenn ein einzelner, mutlos gewordener Mathematiklehrer es fertigbringt, jedes Jahr zwanzig Schülern die Lust an Mathe zu versauen. ... Da ist auf einmal etwas kaputtgegangen, was möglicherweise die gesamte Karriere und Entwicklung eines Kindes belastet. Wenn man diese Kosten alle zusammenrechnet, könnte herauskommen, dass es besser wäre, diesen betreffenden Lehrer bei vollen Bezügen nach Hause zu schicken, als ihn noch einen Tag länger diesen Schaden stiften zu lassen. ”— Gerald Hüther - derStandard.at › Bildung
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“ Im Hirn passiert immer erst dann etwas, wenn derjenige, der lernt, das für sich selbst als wichtig beurteilt. ... Es ist ein großes Missverständnis, zu denken, indem man dem anderen sagt, wie er's machen soll, könne man bei ihm im Hirn irgendeine Veränderung auslösen. So geht das nicht. ... [Unsere] Schule produziert lustlose Pflichterfüller. ”— Gerald Hüther - derStandard.at › Bildung
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April 12 2012
"On the internet today, reading something twice is an act of love." – Fish, a "tap essay" for iOS by Robin Sloan
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April 10 2012
“ Das Einkommen ist nicht die Bezahlung der Arbeit – es ist die Voraussetzung für das Arbeiten. ”— Götz Werner
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March 18 2012
“ Most people are doomed in childhood by accepting the axiom that work = pain. Those who escape this are nearly all lured onto the rocks by prestige or money. How many even discover something they love to work on? A few hundred thousand, perhaps, out of billions. ”— Paul Graham: How to Do What You Love
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February 24 2012
“ [Four-year old] Beatrix asked if she could watch a show. Sure, I said, so I turned [the TV] on.— TV Is Broken
A few minutes later, a commercial comes on. “Why did you turn the movie off, Daddy?”, Beatrix worriedly asks. ...
A [movie trailer] comes on.“This! I want to watch this!”, Beatrix exclaims. – “We can’t honey. It’s not out yet. It’s just a commercial.”, I say. She is confused.
“Can I choose?”, Beatrix asks. She thinks this is like home where one can choose from a selection of things to watch, a well organized list with clear box cover shots of all of her favorites.
I have to explain that it does not work that way on television. That we have to watch whatever is on and, if there is nothing you want to watch that is on then you just have to turn it off. Which we do. ”
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“ Networks over dollars: Enormously vested interests with bottomless pocketbooks can be overcome by people banding together through newer, smarter, faster networks....— Politics is a Business. A Big, Broken One. Let's Fix It. - Anil Dash
We've seen it happen to the wealthy, powerful newspaper, magazine and recording businesses – and the protests against SOPA and PIPA [proved it possible in the political realm].
I can think of no industry in better need of that sort of upheaval than our policymaking infrastructure, ... [where] many decisions [are] not based on fact or effectiveness, but shaped by the money chase that elected officials are obsessed with.
I want our tech industry to see as much potential, as much excitement, as much glamour, and far more meaning in fixing politics and voting and policy as they do in fixing the way we listen to music or organize our photos. ”
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February 22 2012
“ Create a whole fiction world where you can be anything you want? That sounds like a pretty cool idea.— lsb @Hacker News – Hah!
People have implemented that in meat-space as the city of San Francisco. ”
See you tomorrow night, SF ♥
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February 18 2012
“ Every group of people with an unusual goal – good, bad, or silly – will trend toward [becoming a cult] unless they make a constant effort to resist it. ”— Eliezer Yudkowsky: Every Cause Wants To Be A Cult - Less Wrong
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“ The thought of voluntarily embracing a system explicitly tied to the beliefs of one human being, who's dead, falls somewhere between the silly and the suicidal.— Eliezer Yudkowsky: Guardians of Ayn Rand - Less Wrong
Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed milestones on our road; and the most important milestone is the hero yet to come.
To be one more milestone in humanity's road is the best that can be said of anyone.
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“ It's easy to hate authoritarianism when you're the victim. It's easy to champion the freedom of the individual, when you are yourself the oppressed.— Eliezer Yudkowsky: Guardians of Ayn Rand - Less Wrong
It takes a much stronger constitution to fear authority when you have the power. ... When you're the one crushing those who dare offend you, the exercise of power somehow seems much more justifiable. All sorts of excellent justifications somehow leap to mind. ”
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February 09 2012
“ The future of our economy depends on the rebels succeeding: At every point in the last forty years, wealth, health, and happiness in our economy has been built on the freedom to disrupt the entrenched powers, not the preservation of their rent-seeking monopolies.— I have a bad feeling about this - raganwald
It will be the same with the RIAA, the MPAA, Intellectual Ventures, and everyone else scheming to enthral the people with digital “rights” management and criminal prosecution of “file sharing.” In the destruction of the monopolization of ideas lies the seeds of another revolution, one that will bring wealth, freedom, and jobs. ”
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February 07 2012
“ If the problem you are trying to solve involves creating a magnum opus, you are solving the wrong problem.— Aza RaskinFind a faster way to fail, recover, and try again.”
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February 06 2012
“ Self-esteem is central to learning: How you react to failure and your own progress (or lack thereof) defines the way you learn. Kids who are afraid of looking stupid, of being compared to their peers, and of having to work hard without the promise of success are the ones who are branded as lazy, unimaginative, or just 'stupid', when in fact they are just afraid of trying hard. ...— Khan Academy discussion @ Hacker News
Most of my students had no idea that math, like weightlifting, is supposed to hurt a bit. They thought that heavy, stretching sensation you get when you learn new concepts meant they were stupid, that they couldn't do math. They didn't realize that everyone feels that, if only briefly. If you're in the bottom third of the distribution, and a third of people are, you never get to the other side of that feeling before the class moves on.
The answer isn't magic teachers. It's for kids to learn that learning is possible. ...
[This is one of the advantages of] Khan Academy, [with] the ability for the student to replay the lesson over and over [on their own terms]. ”
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January 10 2012
“— FightAging.orgWe age because the world changes.
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While senescence damages individuals and has an evolutionary cost, it has a benefit of its own: It allows each lineage to adapt faster to changing conditions. ... When conditions change, a senescent species can drive immortal competitors to extinction.
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December 25 2011
“ Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other. ”— Haim G. Ginott
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konrad via Tellerrand“ Im Informationszeitalter ist nicht mehr Wissen Macht, sondern Zeit zu haben sich Wissen anzueignen. ”— fasel
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