Charlie Stross twists a regular question: Rather than wonder how life will turn out if you win the lottery, what if you learned you had only five years to live? It isn’t as abrupt & frightful as 6 months, so you do have time to consider (& build) your legacy.
Author: neil
A momentary mistake [Article]
Jason Fried learns a life lesson perspective from a Navajo rug trader: the mistakes in the rug patterns are unintentional, but the decision to leave them in is deliberate.
Obama on the Rosa Parks Bus [Picture]
US President Barack Obama contemplates what may have been going through Rosa Parks’ mind as he sits on the historic bus that altered the course of history for black America.
Will Smith on Life [Video]
A compilation of Will Smith interviews sharing his philosophy about life
Who rules the Internet? [Articles]
The Publishing Industry [Opinion]
If newspapers are losing money on their print edition, why do they still print newspapers? An obvious question, but the answer is not as simple. Nicholas Carr takes a crack at the problem.
Artistry [Picture blog]
What an artist can do with three women!
Inspiration [Picture]
A picture speaks a thousand words. This one certainly does: a mother getting her daughter ready for school, while her younger child is still draped around her shoulder, sleeping. A daily Indian occurrence.
A ship shipping shipping ships (video)
Signal vs Noise [Article]
There is such a problem as too much of a good thing, especially with information, says Nicholas Carr, as he adds his thoughts to a quote from author Nassim Nicholas Taleb‘s book Antifragile.