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Fred Brooks wrote The Mythical Man-Month , and was recently interviewed by Wired. Brooks: You can learn more from failure than success. In ...

This is a link to an article by David Code , with some thoughtful insights on why destructive dynamics can develop in relationships.

If Calvin took Ritalin.

Just look at them .

[H]ere's a quick list of a few ways to earn that right: Be informed Be rational Pay your dues Have a platform where a lot of people can ...

“Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own.” Harold Coffin

Yale Class of 1987: Tamar Gendler discusses her work on bloggingheads.... : "      Tamar Gendler was recently on a blog/tv broadcas...

52,000 GM hourly workers remain in the United States – down from 468,000 in 1970. From Robert Reich's blog article, The Great Decouplin...

Week 2 : so far, so good, althought I've already rearranged a few days. I try not to get all rigid about the workouts midweek because t...

According to one of its proponents , it's a big improvement.

From Scott Adams , author of the Dilbert comic strip. 1. The more dangerous or inappropriate the conversation, the more interesting it is. ...

Happy Birthday, Marshall McLuhan.

I care about fonts, but not as much as some people .

Blog post from Jeff Atwood about how marketing studies don't create campaigns, they can only fine tune them. Excellent use of a movie r...

Cory Doctorow's latest work, For the Win , is not just for teenagers. Here's an example of the kind of thought experiment he presen...

We'll see if I can stick with it without getting injured. Based on a better-then-expected (sub 8 min) time in the Petit Road Race, I de...

I suppose that a post about not spending so much time on the internet or connected to mobile devices is a little odd for a blog post, but it...

Isaac Asimov: The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That'...