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Little bits of cool that don't fit anywhere else (or at least not on my main site, Lone Gunman)

…and some photos.

Global warming: temporal patterns of public opinion

From GraphJam

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Today my mom told me about a conversations she had with my aunt and she told me how my cousin and his friends have been getting in trouble at school for saying “Thats What She Said” So now to aviod…

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The Reasons for Writing Software

Are, in rough order of nobleness:

  • Because no one else has made anything like this before and I’m sure it’ll be awesome.
  • Because no one has ever combined these feature sets and the combination will be legen — dramatic pause — dary.
  • Because this platform needs this type of software.
  • Because my version will be way better than all the others.
  • Because building it will teach me something.
  • Because I can do it too.

The Reasons for Writing Software — Ikiru Design

Most educated people are aware that we are the outcome of nearly 4 billion years of Darwinian selection, but many tend to think that humans are somehow the culmination. Our sun, however, is less than halfway through its lifespan. It will not be humans who watch the sun’s demise, 6 billion years from now. Any creatures that then exist will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoebae.
— Sir Martin Rees, professor of cosmology and astrophysics at Cambridge University, Astronomer Royal.

Why Intelligent People Fail

Why Intelligent People Fail

Everything about this article feels obvious, but I’ve never seen it articulated so well:

Being intelligent is like having a knife. If you train every day in using…

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I just thought Shakers should know about it. Reading is essential, after all.


h/t my friend James — also Here.