Jake
@jake
writer, creative programmer, running Printernet and trying to make the internet more interesting.
Jake
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"All coherent intellectual work begins with a genuine reaction. " - George Saunders
A Swim in the Pond in the Raid
many people, including this person, carry the attitudes and habits they pick up at their first job around for quite a long time
Culture matters
"A well-fed man keeps and calmly gives forth his infinitesimal portion of eternity. It sounds big in the summer night. And it is, as it always was down the ages, when there was a man with something to tell, and ones, quiet and wise, to listen." - Ray Bradbury
The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing a book by ...
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"Here is the stuff of originality. For it is in the totality of experience reckoned with, filed, and forgotten, that each man is truly different from all others in the world." - Ray Bradbury
In a recent series of studies at Cornell University, psychologists Thomas Gilovich and Clayton Critcher asked participants to think about what they'd be doing if they weren't in the lab: Some were asked to think about leisure, others about obligations. Then, all participants completed a jigsaw puzzle. Afterward, they were asked if their minds had w... See more