January 2012
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“I want to care about something the way he cares about driver safety. I want to...”
– Learning About Work Ethic From My High School Driving Instructor - Atlantic
Chris Wake - Habits of Ineffective People
No one sets out to be ineffective, but it’s easy to pick up the habits. Too easy.Consuming more than you create -Effective people tend to create a lot of content. Content can mean a lot of things - but the rule is always the same, create more than you consume. Ineffective people, on the other hand, spend the majority of their time consuming the fruits of others’ labor. They are...
December 2011
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October 2011
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Think You Don't Need To Focus? Think Again. |... →
“But mark my words, if you’re goal is to get your work to stand out from the crowd (as good art does), then you’ll need to focus all the more.
Focus on subject. Focus on content. Focus on meaning. Focus on artistic vision…
…because these are all the tools that computers can’t help you with and these are the only ways from here on out that you’re going to be able to make a mark.”
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“Unfortunately, almost no problem can be productively conceived in this way. A...”
– http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/opinion/the-milquetoast-radicals.htm
June 2011
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Human Experiment →
It’s like the scientists in the movies who perform the experiment on themselves because they aren’t sure if it’ll work and doesn’t want to risk anyone but himself. Dan McLaughlin is spending over $100,000 in order to test this one idea, that with 1% talent and 99% of effort (or 10,000 hours) you can become an expert at whatever you do. He’s done almost 1200 hours,...
“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
– Unhappy Meals - Michael Pollan - New York Times
The best article I’ve read about food and nutrition. It answers a lot of questions that you may not even know you had.
May 2011
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The new tech bubble via The Economist →
We were too ignorant back in the 90’s to understand what all this meant. We know better now, but will greed trump common sense yet again?
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Dancing at a Funeral Follow Up
Two great follow up articles that help me navigate through what I was feeling while I wrote my thoughts about Osama. One’s from the New Yorker the other is from the NYT.
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The Truth About Sitting
Via: Medical Billing And Coding
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Cranking | 43 Folders →
One of the most honest and wittiest geeks I’ve never met in person, but feel like I know a lot about. I don’t know what it means to be a father or the pressures of writing a book, but when the rubber meets the road, I hope I can stay true to what I believe as well as Merlin does.
After you read it, listen to Dan Benjamin and Merlin Mann talk about it in their excellent podcast:...
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Dancing at a Funeral
I was 17 when it happened. It was 3rd period during physics class and I could see first tower burning from the corner of my eye. No one said much about it, till we saw the second one starting to smoke. Then there was an announcement over the speakers about a possible terrorist attack. We stopped class and went next door to the lab where there was a TV and we could turn on the news. On TV was a...
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The Lowdown on Apple's Retina Display →
Once we see it, there’s no turning back to a regular display. I want to see it on anything with a display but it’s pretty much impossible with the technology we have now.
xkcd Creator Randall Munroe at Google →
One of the geekiest but smartest and funniest people on the internet.
April 2011
4 posts
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“A great story always answers the question what do I do with my life.”
– Ira Glass during an interview with Marc Maron: http://wtfpod.libsyn.com/episode-117-ira-glass
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A Interview Worthwhile Reading
I haven’t heard of Dan Winters before reading this interview on A Photo Editor’s blog. I’ll chalk that up to part ignorance and partly because I’m not in the editorial/advertising photography industry. But the three part interview (still have to read the last one) has been so inspirational for me. Although Dan started at a totally different time than me, I was inspired by...
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March 2011
5 posts
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February 2011
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Randall Wallace Speaking at the National Prayer...
A great talk filled with wisdom and honest from a great storyteller.
January 2011
5 posts
“We recognize our own mortality, and are reminded that in the fleeting time we...”
– President Barack Obama (via jaredgeller)
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“Imagine — imagine for a moment, here was a young girl who was just...”
– Remarks by the President at a Memorial Service for the Victims of the Shooting in Tucson, Arizona | The White House
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How Verizon or AT&T Can Win Me Over
Capitalism and its market forces can finally take its course with the iPhone in the US telecommunications market. Let the competition begin! AT&T no longer has its incompetent exclusivity. We can now choose what works best for us. I hear the sighs of relief and my friends saying, “Finally! I can get the iPhone. I’ve been holding out for it to come to Verizon!” I’m...
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“Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and...”
– This is true for me and the way I was raised and I dare assume for other Asian-Americans too.
December 2010
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November 2010
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October 2010
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