February 2012
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“Among the key technologies reinventing manufacturing:
1. Software: The use of...”
– At the Gartner Symposium in October 2011, Gartner analyst Mark Halpern rounded up five technologies that are reinventing manufacturing. Halpern’s thoughts are worth noting as the future of manufacturing is a hot topic in many countries ranging from the U.S. to the U.K. to Japan as China increasingly...
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WatchOne of my favorite things about hotel rooms in foreign countries: at some point, you will turn on the TV and you will find ‘The Simpsons’ in another language. This one is in French.
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“1. Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400...”
– John Steinbeck on “how to keep from going nuts” while writing.
From Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 45.
via openculture which also has a great video of Steinbeck’s 1962 acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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“Jeremy Lin’s D-League coach Eric Musselman noticed something else, too. As...”
– The Evolution of Jeremy Lin as a Point Guard - NYTimes.com
#stop it already
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“Everything is so much clearer once a world is framed. Maybe it sounds crazy, but...”
– Nathan Englander on creating constraints when writing (in the New Yorker)
btw, Nathan has a Tumblr now.
(via agneswan)
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“…the world is currently run by a generation whose upbringing has left them...”
– Ben Hammersley’s speech to the IAAC (via new-aesthetic)
This is a great talk.
What fascinates me, though, are the people in their 20’s who think this same way because they’ve spent their entire adult lives working for companies that are older than the internet.
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Obama campaign launches Technology campaign office... →
The Obama campaign has, for the first time, opened a new type of campaign office in San Francisco: A Technology Field Office. It is believed to be the first such type of campaign office for a presidential campaign.
“We learned from 2008 that using the talents and skills of our supporters was a key to building the most effective organization,” said Obama campaign deputy press secretary Katie...
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“Today’s belief in ineluctable certainty is the true innovation-killer of our...”
– Innovation Starvation by Neal Stephenson
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