“Most grad schools look for people who have worked for a couple years after graduating from college. On the surface, this may seem like a search for “accomplishments”. But it really isn’t. If you read between the lines, what it’s really asking for is enough experience in the outside world to be frustrated by something. I think this frustration is incredibly helpful in having a strong point of view about the world, or about your place in it. It doesn’t matter what that experience was, whether it was years as an Art Director at some agency or years working at Starbucks.”
Early Winter Night Biking Gloves aim at augmenting established movements while riding a bike with a layer for personal security from Irene Posch of Fashioning Technology
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“You’re not really a customer of the stack, you’re its livestock, ignorant of what’s going on moving from one pasture to another”
Bruce Sterling on stacks
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FOMO is a great motivator of human behavior, and I think a crucial key to understanding social software, and why it works the way it does.
It’s an age-old problem, exacerbated by technology. To be always filled with craving and desire (also called defilement, affliction) is one of the Three Poisons of Buddhism, called kilesa, and it makes you a slave.
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