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by branweb 8y ago
Came here to post this. Love James Burke's work! Connections is my all-time favorite documentary. It changed how I think about technological progress (or really, historical progress generally). Frankly this article should have credited
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by branweb 8y ago
Always good to pause and reflect on the ephemeral nature of knowledge on the www. I've always admired the Internet Archive's Sisyphean mission to preserve some piece of it. ps those statues of internet saints occupying the old ben
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by branweb 8y ago
Completely agree about fastmail. Been a happy customer for a few years now. Easy to migrate from gmail too. Enjoying it all the more since the "upgrade" of gmail's web-ui. Fastmail isn't free, but I think the old adage &
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by branweb 8y ago
Seeing other people's hand-annotations in books is fascinating--regular folks even, not just eminent authors. Sort of a voyeuristic thrill maybe. I stopped marking up my books for a while because it made me loathe to loan them out. But
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by branweb 8y ago
True, but your original assertion (without the "in at least a few places" edit) was misleading.
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by branweb 8y ago
Not true. The article specifically mentions Seattle having non-functional pedestrian buttons, and I've encountered many myself around the city. In fact, I think the Seattle Times ran a story on it a while back. edit: found it - https:
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by branweb 8y ago
I'm quite ignorant of our (US) legal system, but the article seemed to say that it was dropped because the Supreme Court confirmed Ulbricht's life-sentence for the drug charges. US Attorney figured he wasn't going anywhere an
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by branweb 8y ago
Yeah I think this part is what I was remembering: http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/autobiography/page41.htm Where he says: * I spent all this time making this spreadsheet to record all my moral failings * The pla
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by branweb 8y ago
I know my comment was ambiguous, but I didn't mean it as a slam on Ben Franklin. It makes me like him more. Most relatable founding father ever.
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by branweb 8y ago
Pretty sure Franklin's effort to cultivate these virtues in himself lasted like a couple weeks. These articles never mention that.
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by branweb 9y ago
Definitely agree with the synthesize, select, focus approach, though I find software can make this process cleaner / more enjoyable. You just have to guard against it (the software) becoming an end in itself. For suggestions, check out
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by branweb 9y ago
The founder of DuckDuckGo published a similar list of mental models a little before this one. His list is longer, but there is some overlap between it and this one: https://medium.com/@yegg/mental-models-i-find-repeated