A sunny and busy week. Coincidentally I had a fewer links to choose from which shows what impact nice weather can have on my usage of the web. No real theme or big topics this week, although there are two stories with connections to drugs which might have some meaning.<\/p>\n
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People substitute\u00a0creative\u00a0<\/em>for\u00a0sexy\u00a0<\/em>in describing their aspirations (to themselves and others)\u00a0because it sounds less narcissistic. If you seek sexy work, you could be viewed as self-absorbed, entitled and attention\/status seeking.\u00a0If you pretend it is creative work, you\u2019re suddenly God\u2019s gift to the world, basking in the gratitude, admiration and adoration of all simply for existing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Heat Death, Crap Systems, How Connected Studio Will Save the BBC<\/a><\/h3>\n
Money and ideas went in one end; those of us unconnected with the innards of the black box hung around and eventually watched or listened to what came out the other end: a naked production of Shakespeare, the Six O\u2019Clock News, a documentary about Hitler\u2019s Killer Sharks, an exhibition of Rutger Hauer\u2019s artwork.\u00a0No doubt what went on inside the box was complex. But the processes were invisible and the box was not connected to the outside world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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When To Give Up<\/a><\/h3>\n
A simple measure to know if you need to kill something, is to be aware of how you\u2019re feeling when you\u2019re talking about the thing you\u2019re working on. In giving the latest in a long line of elevator pitch summaries to a stranger, how are you feeling? When you\u2019re talking to friends, are you excited about other things, and when asked about how it\u2019s going with your main thing, do you deflate, feel flat, change the subject? How\u2019s your body language when you\u2019re talking about it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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The #indieweb as a minimum viable social web ecosystem<\/a><\/h3>\n
Although there have been significant advances in the field over the last five years, there remains a need to prove the business value of decentralized web technologies. To many of us involved in both the industry and the movement, this seems silly: after all, the business value of other decentralized technologies, like email and the phone system, are hardly questioned. Nonetheless, in a world where centralized data siloes regularly receive multi-billion-dollar valuations, the onus is on those of us who are building more open technologies to demonstrate their worth. Note, it is not enough to\u00a0argue<\/em>\u00a0their worth: we must build, ship, and actively demonstrate a profitable product or service with a business model where the decentralized social web is an inextricable component.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Why I\u2019m hiring graduates with thirds this year<\/a><\/h3>\n
So my game theoretic instincts suggest that if we confine our recruitment efforts to people in the lower half of the degree ladder we shall have an exclusive appeal to a large body of people no less valuable than anyone else. And such people will be far more loyal hires, since we won\u2019t be competing for their attention with deep-pocketed pimps in investment banking.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Can a Low Dose Go a Long Way?<\/a><\/h3>\n
He’s\u00a0been in the\u00a0trenches of legitimate mind-altering research for over four decades, and with time has become a sort of champion of the micro dose. Nowadays, he’s tickled to find himself almost sober, if you could call it that,\u00a0among the brain-blasted, self-important\u00a0new\u00a0gurus and high priests\u00a0of what could be called a\u00a0psychedelic renaissnace.\u00a0Speaking\u00a0at the 2013 Psychedelic Science conference in San Francisco, Fadiman did not mince words:\u00a0“It’s wonderful to be conservative in this crowd.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Have a nice sunny weekend (assuming you are in the summer half of the world). Subscribe to these reads via email here<\/a>\u00a0or via RSS here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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