Archive by category 'Ashley and Heather informed us they are planning to live at home after college to pay off student loans and save some money. It brought to mind Guy Kawasaki’s famous commencement speech: #10: Live off your parents as long as possible. I was a diligent Oriental in high school and college. I took college-level classes [...]
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On Understanding — Making the Effort
From Science of Doom’s About this Blog page: It’s easy to trade blows on blogs. It’s harder to understand a new point of view. Or to consider that a different point of view might be right. And yet, more constructive for everyone if we take a moment, a day even, and try and really understand [...]
On Success
“Most of the things we try fail.” —Jonathan Perlow, software engineer on the Gmail front end Yet, without trying, there can be no success. ___ Hat tip: Louis Gray. Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lintmachine/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Buzz Kill
Watch Dave Winer’s opinion of Google Buzz drive off the cliff: Twitter-killing follow-up. (Scripting News). http://r2.ly/xcex # My first Buzz tweet. Not sure if you’ll be able to read this. Let me know. http://r2.ly/xcp7 # After 15 minutes I remember that Google is mean and distrusting and filled with side-goals that have nothing to do with [...]
Love Is…
This is but one of Hugh MacLeod’s “love” series of prints. ___ Credit: Image by Hugh MacLeod, displayed under Creative Commons license.
On Congregationalism
No one will ever stand up in most of your churches and say something really stupid, and that’s a shame, because the pastor shouldn’t be the only one who gets to have fun. —iMonk.
On Words and Meaning
We choose our words. We don’t choose our meaning. —Larry Lessig ___ MPEP § 2111.01(IV), notwithstanding.
Quote of the Day — Plato
Where the law is subject to some other authority and has none of its own, the collapse of the state, in my view, is not far off; but if law is the master of the government and the government is its slave, then the situation is full of promise and men enjoy all the blessings [...]
