The Feynman Series. Se alle. Så bra — så inspirerende.
Notater og sitater fra verdensveven
Kaynes vs Hayek.
Fra Hayek:
The economy’s not a car, there’s no engine to stall, no expert can fix it, there’s no “it” at all. The economy is us, we don’t need a mechanic, put away the wrenches the economy’s organic.
The Frontier is Everywhere
Interessant presentasjon om gamification.
Fra The Nerd Handbook:
A nerd needs a project because a nerd builds stuff. All the time.
Dersom du liker å skrive anbefaler jeg å se denne. Det er Jim Coudal, Michael Lopp og John Gruber som prater om deres skriveprosess.
If you really understand something, you can say it in the fewest words, instead of thrashing about.
United we rise
Ifølge Bret Taylor, CTO i Facebook, opplever de for tiden et problem når de kontinuerlig må utvikle mange forskjellige versjoner av Facebook, både den vanlige nettsiden, en nettside for mobiler, og apps til iPhone, Android og Blackberry. Løsningen er ifølge Taylor HTML5:
The end goal is that we’ll be able to develop one version of Facebook for mobile devices, that runs on all different kinds of mobile phones. That’s really where our focus is now.
Paul Adams om sosiale nettverk. Mahendra Palsule om nøkkelpoengene i presentasjonen:
A single umbrella group of “Friends” in an online network doesn’t mirror real-life and leads to problems. Support multiple independent groups of friends.
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Focusing on technology is a wrong strategy. Focus should instead be on Motivation and Goals.
Some days, the web feels like 5 people trying to make something; 5k people turning it into a list; and 500MM people saying, “FAIL.”
Hear, hear.
Skills!
Hard is not about sweat or time, hard is about finishing the rare, valuable, risky task that few complete.
