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A Mathematician’s Lament (PDF)
On the horrible state of math education, esp K-12. (I now feel extra-lucky to have taken the after-school math classes I had in high school, instead of the standard ones.)
math  science  academia  philosophizing 
8 weeks ago by epersonae
How Do Open Source Communities Govern Themselves? | RandyFay.com
A comparison of several communities.
politics  opensource  drupal  linux  philosophizing  society 
11 weeks ago by epersonae
comments on I am Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ask Me Anything...
"What can you tell a young man looking for motivation in life itself?" and the answer is quite lovely
philosophizing  science 
12 weeks ago by epersonae
Rands In Repose: The Rands Test
"A growing groups needs to continually invest in new ways to figure out what it is collectively thinking so anyone anywhere can answer the question: “What the hell is going on?” This is the first question The Rands Test answers. As I’ll explain shortly, the second question The Rands Test helps you answer is selfish. The second asks: “Where am I?”"
work  philosophizing 
october 2011 by epersonae
Broken Promises: Following Your Dreams, and the 99 percent
"in the end it’s a “follow your dreams” speech, and as such is quite a contrast to another Internet event of the moment" - on the Steve Jobs graduation speech everybody's posting.
politics  academia  philosophizing 
october 2011 by epersonae
GNS Theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"GNS Theory holds that participants in role-playing games reinforce each other's behaviour towards ends which can be divided into three categories: Gamist, Narrativist and Simulationist." rings true for me.
gaming  philosophizing  psychology 
october 2011 by epersonae
Shopping for a Web Developer is like Shopping for an Auto Mechanic | Metal Toad Media
A useful metaphor, honestly, both for the shopper and the developer.
webdev  philosophizing  business 
october 2011 by epersonae
Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS
sent to instapaper, hopefully will remember to read: looks promising.
css  webdev  philosophizing 
september 2011 by epersonae
how to make decisions (my go-to model) | hey amber rae
philosophizing 
july 2011 by epersonae
Adactio: Journal—Context
webdev  philosophizing 
april 2011 by epersonae
Why Last Chapters Disappoint - Essay - NYTimes.com
here's my take: it's really hard to read through hundreds of pages of OMG THIS SUCKS and then not know what to do next. "ok, now what?" Bomb Power was esp difficult that way, as was 13 Bankers. Have to respect The Big Sort, as one example, for not taking that route. (At least as far as I remember it.) And Half the Sky actually does it well, I think because he looks at things that make it better *throughout* the book.
writing  psychology  politics  philosophizing 
march 2011 by epersonae
cluegirl | An Open Letter to the Men of America and the World, on the Subject of My Feminism;
"The fact is, I respect you, gentlemen, and that is why I am a feminist. I respect your capacity for strength, for honourability, for fairness, and for intellectual, rational discourse too much to allow our society to shortchange you on those accounts." YES.
gender  politics  philosophizing 
march 2011 by epersonae
Seven ways to think like the web « Jon Udell
philosophizing  webdev 
february 2011 by epersonae
Invaders from Mars - Charlie's Diary
corporations as alien invaders. yep.
society  finance  politics  philosophizing 
december 2010 by epersonae
Information overload, the early years - The Boston Globe
"if we look closely, we can find a striking parallel to our own time: what Western Europe experienced in the wake of Gutenberg’s invention of printing"
blogosphere  history  academia  writing  philosophizing 
december 2010 by epersonae
The Atlantic’s 150 Year Anniversary Issue – David Foster Wallace asks how much our security should cost | Good News
"Are you up for a thought experiment? What if we chose to regard the 2,973 innocents killed in the atrocities of 9/11 not as victims but as democratic martyrs, “sacrifices on the altar of freedom”?*" interesting essay.
politics  security  history  philosophizing 
november 2010 by epersonae
What does it mean to be a progressive?
lovely thoughtful stuff.
politics  philosophizing 
november 2010 by epersonae
Rands In Repose: An Unexpected Connection
humor & trivial pursuit. (also: reincorporation.)
funny  psychology  philosophizing 
october 2010 by epersonae
I give you the ability to do this because I trust you | MetaTalk
linked purely for this: "no ordinary person can compete with the shrewd cruelty of a bunch of programmers convinced that they are right and their opponents are retarded apes" which sums up the problem with the hacker culture as described in the Hackers book.
philosophizing  misctech 
september 2010 by epersonae
On jQuery & Large Applications - rmurphey
intriguing. at this point, I've only used jQuery for the small-scale stuff.
jquery  javascripty  philosophizing  webdev 
august 2010 by epersonae
Medieval Multitasking: Did We Ever Focus? | Culture | Religion Dispatches
"I have the advantage of not drinking a gallon of high-octane ale each day from a vessel infused with lead!"
history  philosophizing  psychology  blogosphere 
july 2010 by epersonae
Eric's Archived Thoughts: The Web Stack
I like the third comment's "front-end web stack" as a description as well.
philosophizing  webdev 
may 2010 by epersonae
‘Professional’ editorial from the medical librarian in theory « eagledawg.net
library  philosophizing 
may 2010 by epersonae
Guardienne of the Tomes: LibPunk: Using Our Powers for Awesome. And Breaking Shit.
"To me, LibPunk is unconcerned with whether or not it is considered a profession at all." delightful take on the subject of my blog post yesterday.
library  philosophizing 
may 2010 by epersonae
A List Apart: Articles: Habit Fields
surprisingly deep.
philosophizing  psychology  productivity 
may 2010 by epersonae
Julio's Blog | Why Tony Stark is better than you
"If you can’t design, don’t be proud about it." a good topic for the web generalist.
design  photoshoppery  philosophizing  webdev 
april 2010 by epersonae
Post #1000: A Strawman for Everything « Scott Berkun
"For post #1000 it seemed i should try and sum up. Be concise. Get to the point of whatever it is I’m trying to do. Here are five big swings, themes you’ll find in much of my other writing. It’s preachy as hell, but hey, it’s post 1000."
society  philosophizing  misctech 
april 2010 by epersonae
3quarksdaily
delightful interview w/Merlin Mann.
productivity  philosophizing  writing 
april 2010 by epersonae
sliced - The Solutionist
I think this might be me.
personal  psychology  philosophizing 
april 2010 by epersonae
BLDGBLOG: Nakatomi Space
"While watching Die Hard the other night—one of the best architectural films of the past 25 years—I kept thinking about an essay called "Lethal Theory" by Eyal Weizman—itself easily one of the best and most consequential architecture texts of the past decade"
architecture  society  history  arts  philosophizing 
april 2010 by epersonae
Web Illiteracy: How Much Is Your Fault?
on the RWW/Facebook train wreck and more. (I've known Gus/Jill since jr high, BTW.)
society  blogosphere  academia  personal  philosophizing 
march 2010 by epersonae
Wait a minute, I wrote a post | Shall Make You Odd
"Last month a journalist for the Christian Science Monitor found that [comment on Z's blog] and my dying blogs and e-mailed me asking if I could elaborate further on my comment." very thoughtful.
blogosphere  writing  personal  philosophizing 
march 2010 by epersonae
Science-Based Medicine » Plausibility in Science-Based Medicine
"But not knowing everything is not the functional equivalent of knowing nothing." linked for that quote.
history  science  health  philosophizing 
march 2010 by epersonae
I Quit, or It's Open Source from now on!
opensource  philosophizing  webdev 
march 2010 by epersonae
First, care. | 43 Folders
"as long as you know in your heart that what you’re making or doing matters" this has been key in my involvement (or lack) with the ENA in particular.
personal  philosophizing  productivity 
february 2010 by epersonae
Ten rules for writing fiction
make that LOTS of rules (some contradictory!) about writing by writers.
inspiration  writing  philosophizing 
february 2010 by epersonae
'Good' Beats 'Innovative' Nearly Every Time - BusinessWeek
"If your competitors are mediocre, the merely good can seem exceptional."
business  philosophizing 
february 2010 by epersonae
The View from Here « In Black and White.
"I do not expect you to just accept what I say here as true for you — but I do urge you to consider if your fears and worries are based on first-hand, personal experience or on the experience of someone else" Beautiful post from an artist friend.
philosophizing  politics  society 
february 2010 by epersonae
plasticbag.org: Should we encourage self-promotion and lies?
very thoughtful response.
gender  marketing  psychology  philosophizing 
january 2010 by epersonae
Just Like Heaven by Paul Ford - The Morning News
weirdly beautiful
philosophizing 
january 2010 by epersonae
Pirates Dilemma Review Remixed - Whimsley
"I just want to shake him by the neck and shout at him that you're obviously not stupid Matt Mason so why don't you do what you know you should do and FOLLOW THE FUCKING MONEY before making pronouncements about the benefits of sharing when it's still the case that money is not shared I mean if I share and you get the money then I'm not being altruistic I'm just being a sucker"
society  politics  marketing  finance  philosophizing 
january 2010 by epersonae
The first rule of coding for Drupal | yelvington.com
"It's been said (by Dries? I can't find the reference) that Drupal isn't finished until it can wash your socks. Sock-washing is still in that hard 5% layer, but a lot of what you need to do is already done for you."
drupal  philosophizing 
january 2010 by epersonae
IOLUG speaker’s notes on online identity « Attempting Elegance
AWESOME notes...applies to all "professional" career tracks, I think, not just librarians.
philosophizing  blogosphere  personal  library 
january 2010 by epersonae
Big things I’ve learned 2000-2009 | Information Wants To Be Free
"While I may not have one specific teacher, the whole Internet has become my teacher." great things to think about.
library  philosophizing  psychology  personal 
january 2010 by epersonae
What Is Living and What Is Dead in Social Democracy? - The New York Review of Books
"Nevertheless, the problem we have created for ourselves is essentially comparable to that which faced the ancien régime."
history  philosophizing  politics 
december 2009 by epersonae
Dollarshort: The difference between Twitter and blogs
"Blogging gives you the power to include the two Coreys." And how I expanded out the story of yesterday's bike crash. Just felt like I needed to stretch out and say a little more.
blogosphere  writing  philosophizing 
november 2009 by epersonae
What Is The Role of Government? « in your head
I <3 Mark's comment. (I'd add a fourth goal: to be emotionally and creatively engaged...or something like that.)
politics  local  philosophizing 
november 2009 by epersonae
Could I have my stuff back, please? | rare pattern
long musing from Laura S about the problem of having so much stuff elsewhere on the intertubes.
blogosphere  philosophizing 
august 2009 by epersonae
Charlie's Diary: A fireside chat
Charlie Stross & Paul Krugman at WorldCon. have only listened to a bit so far. (1hr+!)
writing  philosophizing 
august 2009 by epersonae
Give me a second to think it through – Loud
Baldur's new blog, which is good so far, and some interesting musing on use of different media in writing.
writing  finance  philosophizing 
july 2009 by epersonae
"The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online"
among other things Facebook as "white flight" among teens. interesting stuff.
blogosphere  society  politics  philosophizing 
july 2009 by epersonae
blyberg.net » The Darien Statements on the Library and Librarians
"The purpose of the Library is to preserve the integrity of civilization." beautiful & inspiring.
library  society  philosophizing  history  politics 
april 2009 by epersonae
scottberkun.com » Things not to say - “We don’t have time”
"So to say We don’t have time to do X really means X is not important enough for me to use my time on it ." Which caused me to be embarrassed enough about not having done something that I went off & did it.
personal  philosophizing  productivity 
april 2009 by epersonae
A License to Be Human | Orion Magazine
some thoughtful discussion. for some reason, it reminds me of a theme in the part of my book that I haven't been able to write, something about culpability and one's place in the system.
philosophizing  politics 
march 2009 by epersonae
Dresden Codak - Feeeeeee
made me happy & sad at the same time.
philosophizing  personal 
february 2009 by epersonae
David Brin, Google, and the Internet: Is the Web helping us evolve? | Salon Technology
"Politics, as the most encompassing of our mass institutions, now balances on a knife edge between a past which no longer works and a future of chaos." Quote w/in the story. Just had to grab because the last time I heard the phrase "knife edge" was in LotR. Now THAT was serious end-of-the-world sh!t. ;) Also, I like the pragmatic evolutionary take, sort of the "in the long run we are all dead" POV. (replace "we are all dead" with "we all evolve.")
blogosphere  history  philosophizing 
december 2008 by epersonae
Caveat Lector » Blog Archive » Proto-librarians and computers
"We’re going to teach them programming. Riiiiiiiiiight. So what do we teach them, then?" Playing connect-the-dots: I think this is part of what might be meant by Shelley's idea of embedding technology into the liberal arts: teaching people who don't think of themselves as "computer people" how to conceptualize the issues of computer technology. Self-efficacy, technological contexts, gateway tricks. Good stuff, and I think this is what us self-taught jacks-of-all-trades end up internalizing. Nice to see it turned into a curriculum.
academia  philosophizing  misctech  webdev 
december 2008 by epersonae
Planning to Share versus Just Sharing at EdTechPost
via dorothea. I think there's a lot in this to think about re: intranets as well. (and the big project at work that just kinda flopped.)
intranet  blogosphere  philosophizing 
november 2008 by epersonae
Lessons From the Science of Nothing At All
"Bugs are probably not quite what you think. Imagine you've designed a car and built it, but someone designed the wrong size tires for it. If the car were software, maybe this would cause the car to not start, or you wouldn't be able to steer it, or maybe the car would explode. Or maybe everything would go fine until the driver tuned to NPR and then the gas tank would spring a leak." heh. a ramble on the nature of software creation.
philosophizing  history  opensource  misctech 
october 2008 by epersonae
Rands In Repose: Horrible
"There’s a defining moment in your career when you choose to trust someone beside yourself."
psychology  productivity  philosophizing 
october 2008 by epersonae
Four Years | 43 Folders
"By 2007, an increasingly large number of mornings would find me staring, dead-eyed, at del.icio.us or Digg or reddit, feeling queasy as I wondered what possible role, how ever small, my stupid blog might have had in helping inspire 1,000 hucksters to try their hand at half-assing a living from pretending to help strangers — while providing their quarry an unapologetically infinite source of pointless procrastination in the bargain." also, continue on to part 2, in which there is (apparently) rebirth.
productivity  philosophizing  blogosphere 
september 2008 by epersonae
Copenhagen Cycle Chic: Terminology Folly
"She's just a cyclist. Riding her bike to work." about this time of year, after all summer riding, it's kinda like that. I get up, throw on some clothes, and get on my bike, without thinking about it a whole hell of a lot.
bicycling  philosophizing 
september 2008 by epersonae
The Conservative Nanny State
"The reality is that conservatives have been quite actively using the power of the government to shape market outcomes in ways that redistribute income upward. However, conservatives have been clever enough to not own up to their role in this process, pretending all along that everything is just the natural working of the market. And, progressives have been foolish enough to go along with this view." entire book online. interesting thought experiments!
politics  society  philosophizing  history 
september 2008 by epersonae
Hello darkness my old friend [dive into mark]
I just wanted to quote this: "Selling people on freedoms they can’t exercise themselves is, to put it mildly, an uphill battle." (in the comments) I think this is probably, unfortunately, a generalization that can be applied to many arenas.
politics  mac  opensource  linux  philosophizing 
august 2008 by epersonae
The Doubting Essays III | The Journal of Doubt
"Debunking libertarian ideas is like proving the moon isn’t made of cheese, so I won’t waste valuable time here in this essay doing that." A beauteous rant. (for Elizabeth, via Shelley)
politics  philosophizing 
august 2008 by epersonae
Caveat Lector » Context
"To what extent am I entitled to attach context-dependent social expectations to a corner of the Internet that I control?" a damn fine question, and a tricky one. I have shifted back & forth over that particular line, and I don't know if I've found the ri
blogosphere  writing  society  philosophizing 
june 2008 by epersonae
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody
"However lousy it is to sit in your basement and pretend to be an elf, I can tell you from personal experience it's worse to sit in your basement and try to figure if Ginger or Mary Ann is cuter."
society  psychology  philosophizing  history  misctech  webdev 
april 2008 by epersonae
Why Bother?
"The immense disproportion between the magnitude of the problem Gore had described and the puniness of what he was asking us to do about it was enough to sink your heart." - from Michael Pollan. I had much the same reaction. And maybe if spring comes, I'l
eco  garden  philosophizing 
april 2008 by epersonae
Caveat Lector » Notoriety
a wonderfully thoughtful (and at the same time bitchy, in a good way) musing about "rockstar-ness." specific to librarianship, but with wider application.
philosophizing  blogosphere  library  society  gender  psychology 
april 2008 by epersonae
Eric's Archived Thoughts: Crafting Ourselves
lovely. I have thought of myself as a craftsperson in re: web for a long time now.
philosophizing  webdev 
april 2008 by epersonae
Whimsley: Mr. Google's Guidebook
captures a certain feeling of uneasiness rather well.
funny  google  philosophizing 
march 2008 by epersonae
Question your work - (37signals)
reasonable questions in almost any situation.
philosophizing  productivity  webdev 
march 2008 by epersonae
The Client and Server: I am my father's son
yeah, I get that. I have a similar feeling about librarianship occasionally.
philosophizing  webdev 
march 2008 by epersonae
Caveat Lector » Naturalizing systems librarians
"Librarianship has created an immense Somebody Else’s Problem field around computers." wow. ok, maybe I'm glad I didn't go to library school. (I remain fascinated with library-related issues. It's just a thing.)
library  philosophizing  misctech  webdev 
march 2008 by epersonae
librarian.net » Blog Archive » Social Software in Libraries, a presentation
"part of really getting the idea of social software or technology generally is that many people confuse tools and brands and examples and I think people will feel more in charge of technology if they know how to explain it"
library  blogosphere  philosophizing  society  nonprofit  webdev 
february 2008 by epersonae
Confessions of a Community College Dean: Civility
"My proposed code of civil conduct for higher ed, or speech code, if you prefer: I will separate the speaker from the speech." -- just a good rule in general.
society  philosophizing  academia 
january 2008 by epersonae
Adactio: Journal—Year zero
"I fear that a new wave of browser wars would lead to an ascendancy of Robespierres and, inevetiably, Napoleons." -- I dig the comparison to the French Revolution.
standards  philosophizing  history 
december 2007 by epersonae
Anil Dash: Google and Theory of Mind
hm. I think he's talking about autism/aspbergers writ large. scary.
google  society  philosophizing  psychology 
december 2007 by epersonae
scottberkun.com » Usability is not a verb
reason number #8427 why I like being a generalist...usability is part & parcel of all the rest of my making & doing.
philosophizing  usability  webdev 
december 2007 by epersonae
The great CSS framework debate
"exceptions are more common than the rule" -- Andrea hits the nail on the head. This, btw, is often the downfall of CMS.
css  philosophizing  webdev 
november 2007 by epersonae
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