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I collect a lot of stuff I find online. This stuff isn't doing any good sitting in my filing cabinet, so I'm going to send it out every once in a while. Just ask me to take you off the list if you're not interested.
37signals: One of those rare companies with opinions of its own. I work in branding, so I it refreshing when a company can actually stand for something even if that means they have to say no to or alienate certain audiences.
Hey: Email that sparks joy. A 37signals subsidiary.
Know Your Team: A platform designed to help people be better leaders. Originally spun off from 37signals.
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Kyte & Turo: Crowd-sourced Rental cars on-demand. Cars, on average, are parked 95% of the time. What's the role of companies like Hertz Rental Cars when we now have the technology to take advantage of that idle time? It's time rental car businesses rethink how they can put all that idle inventory to use beyond the old business model.
Capitalism & Extreme Poverty: People in our world tend to think that humans have been making quality of life gains in a linear fashion. This paper explores the possibility that the last 500 years of feudal capitalism, imperialism, and globalization drastically reduced quality of life. In other words, things are only now starting to get better over pre-industrial times. Here's a relevant tweet thread about it.
You've been thinking about the autism spectrum wrong: A compelling rebuttal to the common ways of thinking about what "being on the spectrum" actually means.
Is NYC Finally Retuning to the Office? The answer is no.
What the Memex represents: A never-realized vision for electromechanical data storage and retrieval. In this device, Vannevar Bush, Memex's inventor, pioneered several new concepts including hyperlinks. These hyperlinks, when followed, would form "trails" over which you could traverse back and forth. Sound like Google Chrome to you? Many early people working on computers were way ahead of their time. They stepped out of skeuomorphic paradigms to conceptualize what was actually possible with the proto-computing devices they were working with. But the world was not ready. Real world objects like files, folders, and slide decks still have real-world analogies to this day. What other physically-based ways of thinking are still limiting our thinking?
Do you miss Altoids Sours?: This candy-maker, through extensive trial and error, has brought them back for superfans like you.
On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: Do you agree? Disagree?
I collect a lot of stuff I find online. This stuff isn't doing any good sitting in my filing cabinet, so I'm going to send it out every once in a while. Just ask me to take you off the list if you're not interested.
37signals: One of those rare companies with opinions of its own. I work in branding, so I it refreshing when a company can actually stand for something even if that means they have to say no to or alienate certain audiences.
Hey: Email that sparks joy. A 37signals subsidiary.
Know Your Team: A platform designed to help people be better leaders. Originally spun off from 37signals.
aaaaaaaaaaaaa...: A funny URL lengthener.
Kyte & Turo: Crowd-sourced Rental cars on-demand. Cars, on average, are parked 95% of the time. What's the role of companies like Hertz Rental Cars when we now have the technology to take advantage of that idle time? It's time rental car businesses rethink how they can put all that idle inventory to use beyond the old business model.
Capitalism & Extreme Poverty: People in our world tend to think that humans have been making quality of life gains in a linear fashion. This paper explores the possibility that the last 500 years of feudal capitalism, imperialism, and globalization drastically reduced quality of life. In other words, things are only now starting to get better over pre-industrial times. Here's a relevant tweet thread about it.
You've been thinking about the autism spectrum wrong: A compelling rebuttal to the common ways of thinking about what "being on the spectrum" actually means.
Is NYC Finally Retuning to the Office? The answer is no.
What the Memex represents: A never-realized vision for electromechanical data storage and retrieval. In this device, Vannevar Bush, Memex's inventor, pioneered several new concepts including hyperlinks. These hyperlinks, when followed, would form "trails" over which you could traverse back and forth. Sound like Google Chrome to you? Many early people working on computers were way ahead of their time. They stepped out of skeuomorphic paradigms to conceptualize what was actually possible with the proto-computing devices they were working with. But the world was not ready. Real world objects like files, folders, and slide decks still have real-world analogies to this day. What other physically-based ways of thinking are still limiting our thinking?
Do you miss Altoids Sours?: This candy-maker, through extensive trial and error, has brought them back for superfans like you.
On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: Do you agree? Disagree?
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