OK, almost a month old, but great. Paul Ford, of ftrain.com renown, on leaving his job: You know what happened, really and without irony? I had an opportunity to be an editor at Harper’s, to edit pieces for the magazine. It was something I expected to really want. I had wonderful editors to learn from. [...]
December 15, 2009 – 12:43 pm
In the last week I finished both my MBA program and Infinite Jest. The former took longer than the latter, but seriously not by much! I’ve been stockpiling a list of reading to explore once I finished. There are a lot of inspiring people out there — can’t wait to dive into this as I [...]
November 14, 2009 – 1:33 pm
I started thinking when I saw this nice 3-minute infographic-y video perspective on “the future of computing,” via my bro at Crunchgear. Trillions from MAYAnMAYA on Vimeo. Interesting content, but I especially love the production – the way the animation matches up with the story-telling, conveying all the points more clearly by visualizing the metaphors. [...]
New project! This is a community resource for all expats in Bombay — a wiki to gather the best information and recommendations from the members of the Bombay Expats Yahoo Group.
You can always count on Kevin Kelly to sense the emerging dynamics of a system and crystallize his insight into a simple and compelling idea that he freely shares with everyone. Then this idea spreads into collective understanding such that it is hard to imagine how one actually viewed the issue beforehand. It’s almost uncanny [...]
December 6, 2007 – 2:36 am
Random thought: When will Amazon make the engines that power their text statistics available for analyzing blogs? I want to know my key phrases, my SIPs and CAPs, my concordance, and my readability and complexity. Why should Steven Johnson get all the number-crunching fun?
