December 2009
111 posts
“More generally, you can have a fruitful discussion about a topic only if it...”
– Keep Your Identity Small
The Top 10 Decades of the Century: How The 2000s... →
Was that decade really better than 00s?
“The L.H.C. is not merely the world’s largest particle accelerator but the...”
– The Genesis Project
“When John was just a little professor, his mother noticed him spending many...”
– Work Dilation
“Which leads me to the biggest problem with Markdown: John Gruber.
John is...”
– Responsible Open Source Code Parenting
Markdown is my favorite markup language and I’m using to write posts in this blog. It’s simple and easy and makes your posts looking good. Anyway, I support Coding Horror thesis
“I have a terrible singing voice, but my children would be offended if I played a...”
– They’re not talking to you
thoughts on user-generated content
“Amazon and the Kindle have killed the bookstore. Why? Because people who buy 100...”
– Seth’s Blog: It’s not the rats you need to worry about
I don’t completely agree. Maybe the heavy users buy 100+ books, but if you count them they are 50% of the sells because it’s true that sporadic users buy a book once in a while, but their number it’s massive
“Let’s try a thought experiment: A flying saucer comes to Earth, destroys a...”
– How far away is your future?
This is one of the objectives of minimalism: focusing on what’s really important.
Everyone has to do boring stuff and a consistent part of the day it’s gone. But you can’t let the whole day go.
Once I read of a guy that every morning facing the mirror...
In search of the world's hardest language →
Nice round-up of several exotic languages compared to english and their difficulty.
Reading Devices: Scrolling vs. Pagination →
I don’t regret the idea of a fixed-scrolling. Instead of hitting a button you just do the action of scroll and you get a new page.
It could be also calibrated to different scrolls: you tap in the upper part of the page means you want to scroll just a paragraphe, in the middle half of a page, at the bottom you want to read a new page.
“Use the good ol’ “One In, One Out Rule” to equalize what you...”
– 5 Tips to Save on 2009 Taxes Before Next Thursday!
Learning from bad graphs and weak analysis →
“The things you own end up owning you.”
– Tyler Durden, Fight Club
evergreen, especially in this period of the year
my girlfriend has bought another dog. the older one is honey, the newer one is pablo.
she doesn’t know who radiohead are
Pablo Honey. I love her so much
On deleting feeds without missing anything...
Today I noticed I have 200+ feeds in Google Reader. It wouldn’t be a problem if those blogs wrote new posts every once in a while, but many of them are updated daily. So I spend nearly 2/3 of my web-time reading them and making sure I do not miss anything important.
I just said important, but what does it really mean to me? There are severals topics I like to be updated on, like the...
“But I think that’s part of my revulsion at the direction our on- and...”
– Location Independence, without moving? « A Life Reinvented
“Many people will look at habit change as a short-term thing. Like, I just gotta...”
– Keeping Habits for Life
“Cause we are free. We choose. We surrender to something greater && we...”
– barefoot’d.backpack’r: “Post.Independence” // What to do now that you’r free.
“Focusing on aligning my decisions with values insures that I pilot my life to...”
– barefoot’d.backpack’r: Resolving Continuous Self Improvement w/ Minimalism
“Describing sex is like licking a book”
– Doesn’t sound as good as in italian but it’s cool anyway.
“For the same reason that we have Space Shuttle launch delays, we’ll be...”
– The Physics of Space Battles
“I think Marco’s take on this is the right one. Better does not always have to...”
– Minimal Mac
“Anyway, the answer: Technology is important because it empowers people....”
– Why is technology important?
“Erin has used a phrase in her blog that always resonates with me in these...”
– ExpatTX at Emotions associated to uncluttering
“When something is simple, it’s possible to understand it in fullness. When you...”
– Minimal
“Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an...”
– David Foster Wallace on Life and Work
“Some of us run in the middle of the night. Some of us strum acoustic guitars and...”
– Why We Are Weird
“When walking, walk. When eating, eat.”
– Zen proverb.
Many seem to forget this simple rule
“Organizing is not about “neatening things up” and finding homes for...”
– The Clutter Diet Blog: The Lesson of the Three Staplers
That's Not Art →
This blog is gorgeous.
It says:
People post ridiculous “art” to Tumblr. These pieces frequently make it into Popular. I reblog them here and call them out for being stupid
“The TV networks already seem, grudgingly, to see where things are going, and...”
– Why TV Lost
“The good news is, if you’re carrying a burden without knowing it, your...”
– An amazing essay on stuff by Paul Graham
“you don’t need to chase everything you’ve always wanted if you already have...”
– Inspiration in One Sentence
“For sentimental items and nick-knacks take a digital photograph and donate or...”
– Decluttering Tips For Living The Simple Life
“Wikipedians are 80 percent male, more than 65 percent single, more than 85...”
– Read the full post, it’s worth it
“Smart businesspeople focus on the things they have the power to change, not...”
– Smart people should do that too
Seth’s Blog: You don’t have the power
What I expect
marco:
My content will be stolen and republished in ways that violate my extremely permissive Creative Commons license. This will be done by both bots and humans. The bots will use my content to steal pennies from advertisers and time from people. Some of the humans won’t realize they’re doing anything wrong. The others think I won’t notice.
People will misquote, re-title, and edit my content...
“On a different note: there’s a bummer aspect to friend-recommended content as...”
– The Long Tail of Humor
“[Visiting his grandpa] But the whole time, I had one big question on my mind....”
– Derek Sivers
“Early in life you recognize that everything is a starter deck of cards. Then...”
– Get Back to the original deck of cards and you’ll be fine.
stoicsoda at Becoming Minimalist
“In my three months since I started acting on my newfound philosophy, I have...”
– Last sentence is inspiring. Minimalism is keeping the quality items that improve your life and not being distracted by stuff. It’s liberating.
Tom’s Story