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"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."

“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0] : Every time a story comes up about the details of what is and isn’t healthy for you, I come back to this article. Eating 80% healthily

Year of Code

Blue sky thinking to popularise the Year of Code with today’s youth

The Government’s Year of Code [http://yearofcode.org/] is off to a mixed start [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26150717], to say the least. But it is possible that increasing the next generation’s knowledge of these valuable tools could be key to increasing our country’s future

Roger Angell: Life in the Nineties

Roger Angell: Life in the Nineties [http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/02/17/140217fa_fact_angell]: I’d happily read a blog of letters from old people passing on their wisdom and experience. There’s something earned by longevity that contrasts so deeply with the daily throwaway content from

The One Quality Every Startup Needs to Survive

The One Quality Every Startup Needs to Survive [http://firstround.com/article/Asanas-Justin-Rosenstein-on-the-One-Quality-Every-Startup-Needs-to-Survive] : > He had stumbled upon that one, critical missing ingredient — an ingredient that Rosenstein and Asana’s leadership have accepted as key to their success: Clarity. Whatever you call it, establishing the clear “why” and making sure

Why Augur?

Why Augur? [http://apatterns.tumblr.com/post/77365429971/augur-maxtb-launch]: apatterns [http://apatterns.tumblr.com/post/77365429971/augur-maxtb-launch]: > PR has become a much maligned industry. And perhaps there’s some fairness to the criticism. Over the last 100 years, its “two-way street” origin decayed into something designed to match broadcast

Like it or not, Dungeon Keeper is the future of LCD gaming

Like it or not, Dungeon Keeper is the future of LCD gaming [https://medium.com/p/676cdc67b5ab]: By me: “There has been a lot of fuss about the new ‘free-to-play’ Dungeon Keeper on iOS and Android. For much of the gaming community, it’s a new watermark for how the

The Graph That Changed Jon Bell

The Graph That Changed Jon Bell [https://medium.com/launching-ux-launchpad/385ff833f9c8]

Quantum Dots: Band name or display technology?

Quantum Dots: Band name or display technology? [http://www.displaymate.com/Display_Technology_2014.htm]: > Quantum Dots Quantum Dots provide an amazing super high technology performance enhancement for LCDs through a unique application of Quantum Physics. By incorporating them within the Backlight the LCDs then produce highly saturated primary

HARDWARE REVIEW: APPLE WEIGHS IN WITH MACINTOSH

HARDWARE REVIEW: APPLE WEIGHS IN WITH MACINTOSH [http://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/24/science/personal-computers-hardware-review-apple-weighs-in-with-macintosh.html] : > The roughly 17-pound Macintosh comes in a square bushel-basket-size canvas tote bag with an oversized zipper. The preproduction version I saw did not sport the Apple-with-a-bite logo. The addition of this emblem

It's a great time to be a techy

It’s a great time to be a techy [http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/1/28/ecosystem-maths]: Nothing is settled on mobile. I have no idea what it will mean in 5 years time to say that I ‘installed’ an ‘app’ on an ‘Android’ ‘smartphone’. All of those terms could

“We’re Just Flipping Through Index Cards”

“We’re Just Flipping Through Index Cards” [http://www.marco.org/2014/01/21/roderick-cmd-space]: > When a Marvin Gaye record came out 40 years ago, presumably, you went and spent your record-buying allowance on it, and you brought it home and listened to it exclusively for 2 weeks. It

Don’t Glorify Startup Failure

Don’t Glorify Startup Failure [http://www.instigatorblog.com/dont-glorify-startup-failure/2014/01/23/]: And the counterpoint, from Ben Yoskovitz: “But we should also be careful about glorifying startup failure. There’s nothing awesome about it. The entrepreneurs that fail are not heroes or celebrities. They are special–because they’re

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