Globalization has made getting along with countries we’ve never heard of more important, and the best way to do that is to beat the crap out of them in sports we’ve never heard of and then rub their faces in it. If we’re going to get along, we’re going to have to learn how to hate each other when it matters the least.
Time on The Olympics
24 August 2008
23 June 2008
Twitter, FriendFeed, email, IM, and RSS take away our focus when we’re really concentrating and switching to and from each task can mess us up. Instead of pining away for the overstimulated sponge-like skills of Scoble, it may be time to embrace this quality about yourself and use it to your advantage. Just because you’re not able to write a great post while concurrently dealing with new email and IMs, that doesn’t mean there’s anything inherently wrong with you that needs fixing.
ReadWriteWeb on Information Overload
9 June 2008
These days we seem to live in a world where everything two days ago seems not to matter anymore and what we do today will be forgotten two days from now. But good science creates a tower of knowledge where today’s blocks rest on what lies below and journal articles tell us how that tower was built so we can better build it higher.
Computational Complexity on Science