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Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in h...

Good article about the romanticized view of passion vs. professionalism, and why professionalism is actually better. I think this might be ...

At GitHub we don’t have a project tracker or todo list – we just all work on whatever is most interesting to us. No standup meetings, burndo...

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. -- Samuel Johnson

List of productivity tools.

Douglas R. Hofstadter gave a lecture at Stanford on Feb. 6, 2006. He's a smart and thoughtful guy. -- 2/26/2010 It makes me want to r...

"John, when people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if yo...

From Wikipedia: A snowclone is a type of cliché and phrasal template originally defined as "a multi-use, customizable, instantly reco...

On the one hand, Warren Buffet's partner Charles Munger argues that the US has blown it through poor management and overreach, but on t...

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Click the image to see a larger version -- I used an image rather than a link, because prices change. Strange that the actual physical DVD...

I like the optimism in this article -- he's not saying that it is the end of the American Empire (necessarily), just that we are enteri...

Maybe the best song in the show http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC7Kt1pXGTk

While the phrase, "Taken to its logical conclusion" is something that I hear fairly frequently (at least in my own head, as I appl...

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. -- Logan Pearsall Smith Thanks, Mom!

If I needed to tile a bathroom, I would put these tiles on it. Thank you, Roger Penrose .

So much more than a history of the Mac and PC platforms. One of the best essays I've ever read. By Neal Stephenson, who has gone on t...

Great symbol on so many levels, but particularly great when linked to this article: How to become a Hacker It looks a little bit intimida...