Jake
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writer, creative programmer, running Printernet and trying to make the internet more interesting.
Jake
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The Mysterious Disappearance of a Revolutionary Mathematician | The New Yorker
Rivka Galchennewyorker.com“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”
—Terry Pratchett
Wandering the web stacks to improve your information diet « the jsomers.net blog
I like asking up-front, “So what criteria would you use if you were the one hiring someone for this role?”
Graham Duncan Blog • What’s going on here, with this human?
Hypothesis 1: The "golden age" hypothesisThe "golden age" hypothesis says there are one or more "golden ages" from the past that were superior at producing innovation compared to today. Perhaps understanding and restoring what worked about those "golden ages" would lead to an explosion in creativity today.
Holden Karnofsky • Where's Today's Beethoven?
A talented person can quickly become mediocre when you force them to be someone they aren’t.
"writing fiction in America as we enter the twenty-first century is no job for intellectual cowards. There are lots of would-be censors out there, and although they may have different agendas, they all want basically the same thing: for you to see the world they see… or to at least shut up about what you do see that’s different." - Stephen King