19 9 / 2010
"I think a lot of the problems we’ve been experiencing come from the fact that no one embraces the miracle and amazement of the present. So many people—steampunks, fundamentalists, hippies, neocons, anti-immigration advocates—feel like there was a better time to live in. They think the present is degraded, faded, and drab. That our world has lost some sort of “spark” or “basic value system” that, if you so much as skim history, you’ll find was never there. Even during the time of the Greeks, there were masses of people lamenting the passing of some sort of “golden age.” But I’d never go back and live in any other time than teetering on tomorrow; this is the greatest time to be alive."
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22 6 / 2010
"If we were starting this whole office thing today, it’s inconceivable we’d pay the rent/time/commuting cost to get what we get. I think in ten years the TV show ‘the Office’ will be seen as a quaint antique."
Unlike Seth Godin, I’ve actually tried this, at scale. It doesn’t work. And I’ll tell you something else: in the end, it’s not management that decides it doesn’t work it’s the workers, who know that the value of face time is not yet replicated by computers.
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05 5 / 2010
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14 4 / 2010
moth:
Conan O’Brien covers Radiohead’s “Creep” during soundcheck ahead of his first live show in Eugene, Oregon last night. [thedailywhat]
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14 4 / 2010
nerdalert- time for me to hit the gym and grow a goatee. Awesome!Serenity Troublemaker Replica T-shirt
