Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
Nerd
Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
Nerd
To test an idea, you must build it. You can’t rely on the abstract – you have to bring it into the world to play with it feel it and only then can you judge whether it’s worth pursuing or not
From Richard Feynman’s 1974 commencement address at CalTech. It’s pretty amazing how relevant this still is, perhaps even more so!

I love/hate the idea of our environment making up for our lack of self-control.

Very Online People and Web Ex Point Oh
I am very excited about this podcast (h/t Andy Baio)
These guys make the Ghost Tote for Benjamin Edgar and have lots of cool, short-run bags and EDC stuff. Technical, but nerdy.
We are very fluent in blunt, materialistic, capitalist questions: What? How soon? How much? What I hope that we can learn to do is add questions of moral imagination to that mix: questions like “Why?” and “To what human effect?” and “How much is enough?”