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  1. Squarest guy in the universe suffers migraines, meds fail, considers medical marijuana. Should at least be good for some laughs. Stay tuned.
  2. Exponential growth and exponential failure fascinate me, so I'm more optimistic and more pessimistic than most. I see each as hard to stop.
  3. 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?
  4. Most presentations deadly dull because speakers ignore basic rules: 1. NO ONE CARES! 2. You must work to make audience care. 3. Less is more
  5. 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."
  6. Gift grab: invited to birthday party for newborn. After gifts at shower, gifts at hospital, somehow there's still capacity left on registry.
  7. 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.
  8. If a man says something, and no women are around, is it still wrong?
  9. 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.
  10. Social networking apps not too useful when one has no friends. So I'm working on a killer antisocial networking app. ("Killer" not literal.)
  11. 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?
  12. 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.
  13. Teaching a grad school seminar. Students smart, but most missing that passionate interest in why things happen that pushes them beyond. Sad.
  14. Are all jobs worth saving? Americans working on the farm, 1850: 50%, today: 1%. I don't hear anyone complaining. http://tinyurl.com/5enlue
  15. 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.
  16. Paul Graham's essays are treasures, filled with nuggets ("stupidity equals opportunity," colleges in "self-fulfilling prophecy business").
  17. “Was Beethoven handicapped by deadness?" http://tinyurl.com/my7a7c Choose one: (a) Typo (b) Not a typo (c) All of the above
  18. Hours of work needed to feed avg family for a year: Late 1800s: 1700 / Today: 260. This one statistic best explains modern life.
  19. 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.
  20. Conferences: closed loop systems designed to recycle received wisdom at the lowest-common denominator while trapping us in a hotel ballroom.