Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
Nerd
Brad Barrish
bradbarrish.com
If you have something worth spreading, it’s considerate to spread it widely, to reach people through their favorite medium.
I was inconsiderate but now I’m everywhere | Derek Sivers
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?”
The On Being Project • Living the Questions
I want to write when I've had a strange thought on a train, or when I'm working something out and writing it down is the only way to do it. Without it needing to be content.
Life and
The ease of setting up technology and technological platforms is a major component of why so much basic research is moving out of academia. Practically anyone with a garage these days can do profound studies, relative to just 15 to 20 years ago.
Jonathan Shaw • Harvard Professors Leaving for Private Sector Research | Harvard Magazine
The Future and
If you have time to consume, you have time to create.
100 Simple Truths
We need 20 year olds to have the freedom to try things, the freedom to explore, the freedom to end up having careers that they couldn’t have imagined at 20. Life requires a certain amount of curiosity and exploration. Life is an open world game. It rewards you for exploring. And capitalism cannot fucking stand that. It wants you on rails.... See more
How to live off the rails
After a lifetime working at mattering, I realized I had under-invested in what really mattered: Relationships.
Ev Williams • Making “Social” Social Again
We’ve grown so intolerant of delay that we can’t sit through a full microwave countdown before intervening— preferring to eat it lukewarm than wait for zero.
Bored
