We passed upon the stair.We spoke of was and when.Although I wasn’t there,He said I was his friend.Which came as a surprise,I spoke into his… Read More »On the Sinful Nature; or, The Man Who Sold the World
White hat marketing One of the biggest mindset shifts I’ve had while running a small nonprofit has been coming to understand the importance of marketing.… Read More »White hat marketing and Margo Aaron on good copy
No one can escape the transforming fire of machines. Kevin Kelly – New Rules for the New Economy Not all technologies are created equal. Most… Read More »Technology (4): General Purpose Technologies
The word fragment is often misused to describe anything smaller than a bread box, but an eight-hundred page book is no more complete or unbroken… Read More »Eleph-ant; or, Small but perfectly formed
Design / information architecture / clarity, simplicity and focus matter a great deal – probably more than you think.Highly recommend the whole of this post… Read More »Design matters (7): Death by PowerPoint
This is an excellent introductory series of videos giving an overview of what data is, important differences between different types of data, how it’s processed… Read More »Recommendation: Computerphile on Data Analysis
I love listening to The Lovin’ Spoonful. Their music is sort of laid back and never pretentious. Listening to this soothing music brings back a… Read More »Haruki Murakami on commonplace origin stories; or, Life on the cutting room floor
A history of augmentation Wikipedia has a nice, roughly chronological list of early technologies. It seems that weapons, cooking and languages were the trio that… Read More »Technology (3): A history of augmentation
This is an extract from an excellent interview with Donald Lobo on Deval Sanghavi‘s No Cost Extension podcast at Dasra. Recommended. Deval Sanghavi: I think… Read More »Donald Lobo and Deval Sanghavi on unrestricted donations
Recommended – accompanied by slides and just-as-interesting information about Steve Blank’s involvement at his website here.