Some of the things I enjoyed reading (and viewing) over the weekend: Another great talk from TED (which I’m slowly catching up on). This is Elizabeth Gilbert discussing genius. She is great. P.S., I went back and decided this was good enough to embed, so here it is: While I think I have [...]
“Never hurry. Never rest.” Goethe How do normal people accomplish amazing things? Some get lucky. They are in the right place at the right time and things just sort of fall into place. In my experience this happens to somewhere between 1% and 5% of the people I would consider truly fortunate. [...]
Great talk about perspective from Jill Tarter (Director of the SETI Institute) at TED. (h/t Garr Reynolds at Presentation Zen). Very very cool.
One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was to remember that people are functional. I don’t mean “functional” as a synonym for “working” or “more-or-less-OK,” but rather the mathematical sense of the term. Success at any endeavor is a function of the stable and occassional attributes of the person interacting with external circumstances. S=ƒ(pc). [...]
Back in November and December, Tim O’Reilly had a really interesting discussion over at O’Reilly Radar entitled What Would Depression 2009 Look Like. Tim’s original post was excellent (much less gloomy than the title would suggest) and the comments thread had some interesting insights (mixed w/ your normal assortment of trolls). My contribution to that diologue has (unfortunately) [...]
