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It’s a quote I stumbled upon this morning from Scott Scanlon: I logged into Facebook yesterday and a few of my friends shared pictures of their dinner. It made me think… before social media did people take pictures of their dinner and then when you came over they said… “you got to see this, here’s…
Take a gander down this list of 22 Ways Algorithms Know How You’ll Behave Before You Do and you’ll see that a future not unlike that of Tom Cruise’s in Minority Report isn’t too far fetched. As ERIC SIEGEL writes: Prediction as a capability is booming. It reinvents industries and runs the world. More and more, predictive…
Last night at about 8:30PM my wife’s iPhone suddenly starts pinging. She got a text message. Then another and another. I think in the end she received something like 25 text messages in the space of about 30 minutes. For some people, this might be normal. But for my wife, it’s out of character. She…
“One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.” So wrote Southern novelist Eudora Welty in her essay “Place in Fiction,” and it’s a concept well worth thinking about in an era in which communities and countries feel paradoxically fractured and all-encompassing, in which people feel torn apart and thrown together, all at once. At times like…
I love this: Despite what you may have heard, meditation does not involve joining a group, paying any fees, wearing any special outfits, sitting in a funny position, or believing in anything in particular.
This is some totally geeked out stuff, but pretty cool. Pawel Zadrozniak (a.k.a. “Silent“) recently created a great rendition of the song “Black or White” by Michael Jackson on The Floppotron, which consists of 64 floppy drives, 8 hard drives, and 2 scanners. Hmmm…I’m looking around my office now to see what I can make…
Hmm…lazy Sunday. But hold on a minute, I had a lazy Saturday. I probably should unhinge myself from this chair and move my body about today. Although, saying that, my body is in need of some downtime. I did move some heavy weights this week, 180kg on the benchpress: 4 plates today! | #Stayfit #benchpress…
Art is for everybody. It’s not about going to an art gallery where you have to ring the bell to get in. We don’t want it to feel like it’s prescriptive. We want you to walk in and look at something and have it resonate and think I love that. – Kate Bramwell The @leamTweetUp…
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You say, ‘I’m going to write something completely new and original and very funny.’ You can’t do it. It’s like trying to fly a plane without having any lessons. You’ve got to start somewhere and the best way to start is by copying something that is really good. Some good advice from John Cleese for…
Ok. Imagine you have just won £10 million in the lottery. Would you quit your current job or would stay on as if nothing has changed? We recorded the next episode of the Havana Cafe Sessions podcast today and our topic was about work and why people do it. During my conversation with Sarah, I mentioned…
He he…I suppose I could have put my daughter on this list seeing how we sent her off to university on Saturday. But you never really get rid of your kids do you?! Now comes the period of adjustment where we have to get used to being empty nesters. I’m sure I’ll cope just fine,…
The weeks are rolling by fast. I saw someone post yesterday that we’re now into the hundredth day countdown to Christmas! Dude, where did the year go?! Where did time go? Today I’m taking my daughter off to her first year of university and my son has started his last year of university! I was…
For many years I have traveled in many parts of the world. In America I live in New York, or dip into Chicago or San Francisco. But New York is no more America than Paris is France or London is England. Thus I discovered that I did not know my own country. I, an American…
I do a weekly conversational podcast with novelist Sarah Beth Hunt. We publish a new episode every Monday. You can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or listen from our website or Facebook page.
Today’s wisdom is from the Chinese philosopher, Wu Hsin. The greatest enjoyment is experienced when there is no concern for its duration. Be in the moment. Enjoy what it is you’re doing without trying to hold on to it or make it last longer or wondering when it’s going to end. A good example of…
