September 2009
13 posts
“Kanye West is a posterchild for the perils of radical honesty.”
– A.J. Jacobs, Esquire
Memiarising Classrooms
Memiary has been getting some great traction in the teaching community lately. Mark Warner, a primary school teacher from the UK, has been using it extensively with children he teaches to record things they learn everyday, and recently made a fantastic presentation about his use for the Teachmeet Sussex conference. The presentation was so well received that it got on SlideShare’s most...
“At all times, Wikipedia is approximately 45 minutes away from utter destruction.”
– Jonathan Zittrain
Procrastination
These days I’m finding that my procrastination levels have decreased significantly after I’ve learnt to make myself constantly aware of the following two facts:
Once I start it, I won’t feel this way.
By not doing it right now, not only will I put off the task, but give myself an excuse for the next time I think about doing it.
And as it happens, I find that I rather enjoy...
WatchDan Pink gives a fascinating talk on “the surprising science of motivation.” If you’re going to spend 18 minutes on anything today, let it be this.
His case: if/then incentives, i.e. IF you make a beautiful painting THEN I’ll pay you $100, are 20th century and outdated when it comes to modern day businesses and jobs. That is, they work fantastically in mechanical tasks and...
“If you bought MSFT stock when Ballmer became CEO in Jan 2000 and sold it now,...”
– Comment on this article.
Kind of crazy how the stock market is almost a real representation of public perception and actual performance. Ballmer by all means hasn’t done a bad job of leading Microsoft for the past 9 years, but he hasn’t been no Bill Gates, either. If you were to put a...
“There’s a great story about Pablo Picasso. Some guy told Picasso he’d pay him to...”
– I Will Not Read Your Fucking Script - Village Voice (via rickyv)
“Students who sat where you sit 20 years ago founded Google, Twitter and Facebook...”
– Barack Obama
Obama Praises Twitter, Google & Facebook — But Not Microsoft’s Xbox
(via fred-wilson)
Inglorious Basterds
After seeing the movie a week ago, I rewatched it today, once again, in the theatre. If you know me, you’ll know I rarely do this kind of a thing. Infact, I think this would be the first time I’ve ever done so in my life. Why? Because I’m convinced this film is a masterpiece — on par with classics like The Godfather and The Shawshank Redemption — and I want to live...