August 2009
9 posts
WatchSeth Godin: Quieting the Lizard Brain
The idea of the lizard brain is this: it is hungry, it is scared, it is selfish, and it is horny. That’s it’s job, and that’s all it does.
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“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely...”
– Douglas Adams (via Wikiquote)
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Starting a Bank — Matt Mullenweg →
The name of my bank would be something supremely boring, like SafeBank. The idea behind it is that bad behaviour in the banking world has been largely inevitable because their compensation structures incented people to do overly risky things. SafeBank would maintain a reserve level 2-3x higher than Fed requirements and any other bank. SafeBank would have no bonuses. Critics would say this would...
“Time is really the only capital any human being has, and the one thing he can’t...”
– Thomas Edison
Switching Season →
Once, maybe twice a year, I do this stupid thing. At least I’m not alone in it, as friends get the same itch, but I have to do it. I think about switching away from the Apple platform.
Alex Payne on the internal conflict between user and geek.
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“If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded...”
– Albert Einstein (via The God Delusion)
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“The notebook and pen are professional equipment, as it were. Though actually...”
– Paul Graham, The Island Test (via christmasgorilla)