May 2009
26 posts
“[USPS] Forever stamps may have been the US Government’s most successful investment tool in recent times, gaining 14% in value since 2007, while the Dow and everything else, lost over 40%”
—Shock: Global temperatures driven by US Postal Charges | JoNova
“Our conventional response to all media, namely that it is how they are used that counts, is the numb stance of the technological idiot.”
— How to Become a “Technological Idiot” in One Easy Step: Think Like a Christian - Don’t Eat The Fruit
art book
I saw it. It’s amazing.
i just got my art book today from the publishers, cant wait to show you.
April 2009
13 posts
“at least three out of every five people who sign up for a Twitter account bail within a few weeks”
—Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: The fickle Twitterer
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“One reads an electronic book differently than one reads a printed book - just as one reads a printed book differently than one reads a scribal book and one reads a scribal book differently than one reads a scroll and one reads a scroll differently than one reads a clay tablet.”
—Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Clutter
“The great paradox of “social networking” is that it uses narcissism as the glue for “community.” Being online means being alone, and being in an online community means being alone together. The community is purely symbolic…”
—Nicholas Carr, Twitter Dot Dash
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“Ugh, I have TWO sport coats! Father, forgive me for my materialistic part in this idolatrous generation”
—fakejohnpiper
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This recording was given as a gift to me when I moved away from Tucson in 2006. Deep thanks to AG.
“It is in our collective behavior that we are most mysterious… we spend our time sending messages to each other, talking and trying to listen at the same time, exchanging information. This seems to be our most urgent biological function”
—Lewis Thomas, “Computers” (from The Lives of a Cell, 1974)
Naming
On his first day on the job in the Garden of Eden, Adam’s assignment was to name the animals. Adam was a knowledge worker. He created information by assigning different identifiers to animals. The original job was to create information, to create order out of disorder, and so to work in God’s likeness.
“Our fixation should not be on our clients. It should be on the people our clients want to engage, sell, and interact with.”
—13 Customer’s Customer » Customer Focus, Strategy, Value Creation » InsideWork
