outerlife
- Squarest guy in the universe suffers migraines, meds fail, considers medical marijuana. Should at least be good for some laughs. Stay tuned.8:04 AM Oct 29th from web
- Exponential growth and exponential failure fascinate me, so I'm more optimistic and more pessimistic than most. I see each as hard to stop.8:45 AM Oct 26th from web
- In time warp: waiting outside real bricks-and-mortar store for it to open so I can browse through their 78s. Who physically shops anymore?9:54 AM Oct 25th from TwitterBerry
- Most presentations deadly dull because speakers ignore basic rules: 1. NO ONE CARES! 2. You must work to make audience care. 3. Less is more8:44 AM Oct 22nd from web
- More tattoo ideas: "If you can read this, you're too close" or "USDA Choice" or dotted lines around heart with "Cut. Rip out. Repeat."8:59 AM Oct 19th from web
- Gift grab: invited to birthday party for newborn. After gifts at shower, gifts at hospital, somehow there's still capacity left on registry.7:52 AM Oct 19th from web
- Local moms rediscover cocaine. Last night at carnival one was so wired she quivered; could fuel all the rides by sticking a plug up her ass.12:38 PM Oct 18th from web
- If a man says something, and no women are around, is it still wrong?2:36 PM Oct 17th from web
- I need to get out more. Living in a bubble, a human habitrail, people I see are just like me. Perhaps that's life's natural progression.6:36 AM Oct 16th from TwitterBerry
- Social networking apps not too useful when one has no friends. So I'm working on a killer antisocial networking app. ("Killer" not literal.)10:29 AM Oct 12th from web
- If forced at gunpoint to get a tattoo, I'd go for "TATTOO" or, if on my right arm, "ARM" or "RIGHT". Maybe a Surgeon General's warning?9:49 AM Oct 8th from web
- Polymaths extinct because specialists do it better. But if you only have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. So we're doomed anyways.11:31 AM Sep 28th from web
- Teaching a grad school seminar. Students smart, but most missing that passionate interest in why things happen that pushes them beyond. Sad.6:45 PM Sep 25th from web
- Are all jobs worth saving? Americans working on the farm, 1850: 50%, today: 1%. I don't hear anyone complaining. 2:09 PM Sep 16th from web
- We're programmed to simplify. But world not so simple. To uncloud my view and get closer to reality, am trying to complexify. It's not easy.11:18 AM Sep 16th from web
- Paul Graham's essays are treasures, filled with nuggets ("stupidity equals opportunity," colleges in "self-fulfilling prophecy business").4:16 PM Sep 9th from web
- “Was Beethoven handicapped by deadness?" Choose one: (a) Typo (b) Not a typo (c) All of the above4:28 PM Sep 3rd from web
- Hours of work needed to feed avg family for a year: Late 1800s: 1700 / Today: 260. This one statistic best explains modern life.9:47 AM Sep 3rd from web
- Reading duc de Saint-Simon's memoirs: many similarities between France of Sun King and modern U.S. Times and places change, people don't.5:15 PM Aug 31st from web
- Conferences: closed loop systems designed to recycle received wisdom at the lowest-common denominator while trapping us in a hotel ballroom.7:34 PM Aug 27th from web
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