Instead, the human story goes somewhat like this “sitting in caves, coming up with language, figuring out farming, inventing steam + electricity, creating the Internet.” The Internet is that important.
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Albert Wenger, in his talk opening the Turing Festival (via fred-wilson)
Wenger is completely right. The internet is the largest, most expensive, and most complex human artifact ever created, and is setting the context for the greatest explosion of creativity and innovation, ever.
(via stoweboyd)
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my first short entirely shot and edited on iPhone 4
this weekend is the weekend that i stop working
this weekend is the weekend that i stop working for more than 4 hours.
i have burnt enough weekends working on impossible projects and meaningless assignments.
i have had enough.
i am going to the museums, going to the malls, going to the park, going to the streets, going anywhere except to face the office laptop.
bye.
surprising to know this came from singapore…
infoneer-pulse:
Bosses may have it all wrong when they assume that funny cat videos and FAIL slideshows are a drain on the workplace. Some new research finds that a moderate amount of mindless web surfing actually makes workers more productive at their jobs.
And the more mindless the surfing, the better.
“Employees who browse the web more end up being more engaged at work, so why fight that if it’s in moderation?” says Don J.Q. Chen, a researcher at the National University of Singapore and a co-author of the new report, presented Tuesday at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management.
» via The Huffington Post
Yes I’ve been there… Awe-inspiring and rothkoed
beingblog:
by Susan Leem, associate producer
Studying Rothko inside the Chapel. (photo: Stefan Klocek/Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0)
The Rothko Chapel is a historic Texas landmark, dedicated in 1971 as an interfaith sanctuary and space of personal contemplation. It houses 14 paintings by the late
