Pinboard: bookmarks for sogrady tagged 'culture'

"As startups scale into a company, founders and the board need to realize that the most important transitions are not about systems, buildings or hardware. It’s about the company’s most valuable asset – its employees.

programming culture entrepreneur startups change engineers
january 2010 by sogrady

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Rise of the Preppers: America's New Survivalists - Newsweek.com

no, i'm not a "prepper." but i do think some self-sufficiency and preparation is probably a good idea.

survival preppers culture apocalypse
january 2010 by sogrady

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Less Wrong: Reason as memetic immune disorder

this is interesting, wherever you come down

culture religion mind reason logic meme
december 2009 by sogrady

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Clive Thompson on the New Literacy

"But is this explosion of prose good, on a technical level? Yes. Lunsford's team found that the students were remarkably adept at what rhetoricians call kairos—assessing their audience and adapting their tone and technique to best get their point across. The modern world of online writing, particularly in chat and on discussion threads, is conversational and public, which makes it closer to the Greek tradition of argument than the asynchronous letter and essay writing of 50 years ago.

writing education learning communication audience stanford culture technology research
october 2009 by sogrady

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Greetings!

michael arrington, i am clearly not, but this is good advice a.) for me when i hit people up at shows, or b.) when the same happens to me after talks and so on

social etiquette conference culture michaelarrington techcrunch
september 2009 by sogrady

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Good Novels Don’t Have to Be Hard Work - WSJ.com

"All of this is changing. The revolution is under way. The novel is getting entertaining again. Writers like Michael Chabon, Jonathan Lethem, Donna Tartt, Kelly Link, Audrey Niffenegger, Richard Price, Kate Atkinson, Neil Gaiman, and Susanna Clarke, to name just a few, are busily grafting the sophisticated, intensely aware literary language of Modernism onto the sturdy narrative roots of genre fiction: fantasy, science fiction, detective fiction, romance. They're forging connections between literary spheres that have been hermetically sealed off from one another for a century."

novel culture writing wsj criticism levgrossman modernism
september 2009 by sogrady

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We'll Know When We Get There: Sincerely, John Hughes

really touching anecdote about director John Hughes. and speaking of, did you know he did the National Lampoon's Vacation movies? the good ones? the man was an absolute legend.

johnhughes people movies culture 80s writing celebrity
august 2009 by sogrady

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Finding the lost city - The Boston Globe

El Dorado might be real?

eldorado bostonglobe amazon culture history geography exploration southamerica percyfawcett
february 2009 by sogrady

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Annals of Drinking: A Better Brew: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

"Elephants, like many of us, enjoy a good malted beverage when they can get it. At least twice in the past ten years, herds in India have stumbled upon barrels of rice beer, drained them with their trunks, and gone on drunken rampages. (The first time, they trampled four villagers; the second time they uprooted a pylon and electrocuted themselves.)" - great piece. sham they left out Harpoon, but an excellent read about the rise of microbrewing.

newyorker microbrew history dogfishhead culture business extreme industry hops via:marcia
november 2008 by sogrady

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Amethyst Initiative » Amethyst Initiative

"Adults under 21 are deemed capable of voting, signing contracts, serving on juries and enlisting in the military, but are told they are not mature enough to have a beer." - yup. and - looking just at the facts - it's fairly clear that the current policy is not working.

alcohol academia society education drinking culture college
august 2008 by sogrady

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1-800-MAGIC: Back to Microsoft

interesting tidbits in here. i disagree with much of it, and i obviously don't share the philosophical viewpoint that software value is only measurable through direct monetization, but the criticism is worth considering.

google microsoft culture management opensource structure
june 2008 by sogrady

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YouTube - Carl Sagan - A thousand years of darkness

up there with pandemics on the list of things that scare me

culture history library science video darkages carlsagan alexandria fundamentalism reason hypatia via:digg
june 2008 by sogrady

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The Journal of Joe The Peacock. Yay.: The Etymology of Human Male Non-Verbal Communications (or, Why Men Fist-Bump)

hilarious

funny humor culture fistbumps highfive handshake via:corey
june 2008 by sogrady

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Rands In Repose: We Travel in Tribes

we do indeed

twitter community socialnetworking communication networking culture psychology collaboration network effect via:alex
june 2008 by sogrady

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Subways are for sleeping, By Edmund G. Love (Harper's Magazine)

fascinating bit of post WWII American history

city culture poverty urban homelessness wwii via:joe
may 2008 by sogrady

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Portion Size, Then and Now : DivineCaroline

terrible, but true

portion sizes food health calories weight culture
may 2008 by sogrady

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A serious case of pulp friction - The Boston Globe

"The phone books still pile up, but have they outlived their usefulness?" - obviously yes.

advertising business culture phone recycling waste paper
march 2008 by sogrady

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68% of Americans suffer disconnection anxiety, should probably go outside - Engadget

i know a small horde of people that suffer from this

disconnection anxiety internet research health culture continuous-partial-attention statistics
march 2008 by sogrady

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"A couple comes in...and they ask me, 'Are we happy enough?' Somebody's at a job they like, but are they successful enough? People have to make that choice...Advertising constantly creates the notion that whatever we have is not enough."

advice culture entitlement happiness me selfish psychology materialism
march 2008 by sogrady

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When Will We Have Our First Valleywag Suicide?

a good question to ask. really wish media in every industry could take a few steps back regarding personal privacy and boundaries.

privacy blogs internet siliconvalley startups techcrunch valleywag culture
march 2008 by sogrady

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What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart? - WSJ.com

this explains a lot about MySQL's success...

finland intelligence children education family culture
march 2008 by sogrady

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theSalmonFarm Blog » Blog Archive » Move to the city. No, Move to the country. NO! MOVE TO THE CITY !

a rebuttal to the urban return article posted the other day

glensalmon urban rural culture
march 2008 by sogrady

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rc3.org — The future of the exurbs

interesting piece. i've actually wondered if we'd see the reverse: more people, particularly families, moving back to the burbs for the quality of life, enabled by telecommuting and so on

exurbs suburbs rafecolburn culture demographics census
february 2008 by sogrady

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Hand-wringing About American Culture - Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge? - New York Times

"But now, Ms. Jacoby said, something different is happening: anti-intellectualism (the attitude that 'too much learning can be a dangerous thing') and anti-rationalism ('the idea that there is no such things as evidence or fact, just opinion') have fused

american culture ignorance knowledge standards intelligence anti-rationalism anti-intellectualism susanjacoby
february 2008 by sogrady

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Curses! Why the heck is everybody swearing? - BostonHerald.com

Mom fought the good fight on this one with us growing up, but the odds were overwhelmingly stacked against her. fortunately, it's not hard to turn on and off.

swearing cursing culture via:thebiglead
february 2008 by sogrady

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You Know You're From Boston When...

comedy

boston humor culture
february 2008 by sogrady

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Area Eccentric Reads Entire Book | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

can you imagine?

2008 articles books comedy culture funny humor reading
january 2008 by sogrady

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ongoing · Howe Sound Day

"It’s just nuts that we don’t spend more time there." - pretty much my entire philosophy when it comes to heading back to Maine every summer

cottages britishcolumbia timbray culture kids
january 2008 by sogrady

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Book now for the flight to nowhere - Times Online

as Chris said, sometimes a reality check is good for your perspective

india travel poverty economics culture
january 2008 by sogrady

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List Of The Day: Great Olan Mills photos

one of the funnier things i've seen in a long, long time. absolutely hilarious.

humor fashion culture america olanmills pictures via:sara
january 2008 by sogrady

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International tipping tips - CNN.com

this is why a lot of the folks i know in the service industry don't enjoy serving folks from abroad; clearly it's not their fault, but a 5-10% tip here is going to cause you problems on a return visit.

tipping international service industry culture
january 2008 by sogrady

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ZSFA -- Rails Is A Ghetto (2007-12-31)

everybody and their mother is talking about this one

rails ruby rant rubyonrails zedshaw programming community culture performance
january 2008 by sogrady

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BBC NEWS | Health | Misery: the secret to happiness

"Nobody's life or relationship can be in a permanent state of happiness - there will always be more difficult times." - i wonder how much lower the divorce rate would be if people digested this

bbc culture depression happiness health life relationships marriage social via:matt
january 2008 by sogrady

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Old School [dive into mark]

"So it’s not about language, and it’s not about “modeling the wrong behavior,” and it’s not about the color of your skin or your fur. It’s about class — the one subject that’s still taboo in America, after all these years."

children class culture education learning pbs television tv sesamestreet
december 2007 by sogrady

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always find myself agreeing with an interview i saw with Cisco's CEO Chambers: culture can be among the most important considerations when it comes to M&A.

culture hiring m&a redhat jboss saviorodrigues
december 2007 by sogrady

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Pressmeddelande - Number of conflicts in the world no longer declining

filed under "things i'm not surprised about"

conflicts war culture research statistics
december 2007 by sogrady

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NPR : Romney Hopes to Reassure Voters Over His Faith

"The effort to establish an anti-religion in America, the anti-religion of secularism, has got to come to an end...We are a nation under God. And we do place our trust in Him." - so much for the separation of church and state

religion politics mittromney faith culture america
december 2007 by sogrady

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PC World - The Most Anti-Tech Organizations in America

AKA - the folks desperately trying to throttle useful innovation so that they are not compelled to adapt in any way, shape or form

business copyright culture patents technology drm via:randy
december 2007 by sogrady

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Poll finds more Americans believe in devil than Darwin | Lifestyle | Reuters

<sigh>

america culture evolution reference religion intelligence education
december 2007 by sogrady

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Digg - "If I see a child or a pre-teen crying on the beach I change my direction"

sad, but understandable in the current climate

children culture adults help
november 2007 by sogrady

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Welcome to the Naked Generation | The Social - CNET News.com

like Caroline, i'm extremely curious to see what posterity will make of the hypertransparency of some of today's creatives. and altho it's not my generation, really, the question is more than academic for me.

carolinemccarthy nakedgeneration transparency culture
september 2007 by sogrady

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Kerouac's "On the Road" Remains an Anthem for the 'Crazy Ones'

i was less impressed than Long. i take nothing away from its import at the time, which was likely considerable, but i would dispute its longer term relevance and standing

jackkerouac culture writing ontheroad wired anniversary
august 2007 by sogrady

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Stuff

i desperately need to internalize this

home materialism paulgraham culture philosophy clutter stuff
august 2007 by sogrady

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Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard » Blog Archive » Steve Ballmer: Microsoft’s incompetent youth

"Ballmer: 'Paul was good. Bill was good. Four out of 30 were good — and believe me, the rest are gone.' " - wow

steveballmer interview executives microsoft culture history
june 2007 by sogrady

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Open Sources | InfoWorld | The MySQL factor | May 10, 2007 08:11 PM | By Matt Asay

"We...spent a fair amount of time talking about the people at MySQL...Zack...was pretty open about the nature of the people with whom he works. He didn't say this, but the description I inferred from the conversation was 'confident but humble.' "

culture opensource management mysql hiring humility confidence
may 2007 by sogrady

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retrospections: André's Weblog - Blog

the cultural differences are indeed significant; both sides have something to learn from each other, IMO

culture os-x apple opensource
january 2007 by sogrady

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The beginning at Pensieri di un lunatico minore

sad, but it has to be said

culture fear religion familyfoundation
january 2007 by sogrady

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BumpWorthy.com - adult swim bumps

outSTANDING - all the adult swim bumps indexed and transcoded to Flash; more on this later

adultswim cartoonnetwork bumps advertising marketing culture guerilla
january 2007 by sogrady

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Mayor extends a grace period on parking flap - The Boston Globe

Wintertime parking has been an explosive issue in South Boston, where some residents yesterday seemed resolute to keep their spaces...''If he tries to enforce the 48-hour rule, there will be a South Boston Irish uprising" - old article, but makes the poin

parking southie boston winter chairs neighborhood community culture
january 2007 by sogrady

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eighty-eight miles per hour » Zombies are People, Too

Cote! Zombies!

zombies cote jdub culture
november 2006 by sogrady

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Sriram Krishnan: Ray Ozzie review

presenting to Ozzie sounds far less stressful than presenting to Gates

gates ozzie microsoft culture
october 2006 by sogrady

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Ambassador Youth - Blogs - and God’s Youth

The Restored Church of God is against blogging; the rationale is something you don't see every day, however

blogging christianity culture religion technology weird
october 2006 by sogrady

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Strange new worlds, and programming languages...: Good bye Microsoft; Pete has now left the building!

the disillusionment of a Microsoft advocate

microsoft apple ruby rails ubuntu vista passion life culture
september 2006 by sogrady

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The Breakfast Hype - Los Angeles Times

as someone who's just not a breakfast person, i always get lectured in how it's the "most important meal of the day" - now i have some ammunition to fire back at that

breakfast culture food health
september 2006 by sogrady

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Men standing around broken machines (Ftrain.com)

what can you say but the man writes very well

ford culture life writing
september 2006 by sogrady

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Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » Conflicting goals create tension in communities

i'll need to write this up to, but Mark is as usual very diplomatic and respectful; i fully agree that a lot of the difficulty here is about goals, which is why i've been confused when i've heard Debian folks talk about being more like Ubuntu

debian community design linux opensource shuttleworth ubuntu culture goals direction
september 2006 by sogrady

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mjg59: I resigned from Debian today.It wasn't a

i'll try and write something up on this soon, but i agree w/ Donnie's comment: this is happening elsewhere, and is becoming more prevalent. i also, frankly, think it's to be expected. the key is goals, i think.

debian linux politics ubuntu garrett culture flame wars democracy
september 2006 by sogrady

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Waxy.org: Daily Log: Sex Baiting Prank on Craigslist Affects Hundreds

if you thought the Facebook privacy stuff was bad, give this a read: warning - it's *definitely* not safe for work, very graphic stuff - if i had to bet, i think the "researcher" will be sued

via:luis privacy craigslist livejournal research ethics culture legal
september 2006 by sogrady

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Free WiFi spawns cafe backlash

a natural problem given the rivalrous nature of the resources involved; for my part, i try to be a good patron of venues that offer free wireless, buying more water/etc than i might actually need

wireless wifi business case coffee culture free internet social work telecommute
july 2006 by sogrady

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liz revision » SMS (Text-Messaging) Shorthand for Geeks Using Server Response Codes

first i need to get friends and family to actually use SMS...

sms humor geeks culture
july 2006 by sogrady

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FORTUNE: Banish the HQ - Jun. 1, 2006

interesting piece on MySQL

mysql community culture distributed employment hiring iWork opensource virtual working team software collaboration
june 2006 by sogrady

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USATODAY.com - Fight club draws techies for bloody underground beatdowns

i thought this was a joke when i first saw it

culture fight club news geeks
may 2006 by sogrady

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How to Be Silicon Valley

Graham, as usual, putting out some gems; this one speculates on what it would take to start the next Silicon - Boulder makes the cut

paulgraham siliconvalley creativity culture development startups vc economics entrepreneur geography colorado newyork
may 2006 by sogrady

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French Government Lobbied to Ban Free Software

they did what?

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The Two Things

great anecdote about simplifying a given discipline down to two essential elements (via Dave)

twothings useful writing business simplicity culture humor
november 2005 by sogrady

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Saying I'm sorry in public (Loud Thinking)

this is why you don't delete content on the web

blogs community culture odeo podcasting winer writing
october 2005 by sogrady

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I Will Teach You To Be Rich: On greed and speed

some thoughts on greed and materialism

comments entrepreneur ethics greed materialism culture
october 2005 by sogrady

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The Post Money Value: It's official - It's rude (and other survey lessons)

interesting survey of ex-'Softies (via Scoble)

microsoft culture morale survey
october 2005 by sogrady

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Web 2.0: Conversation with Five Teenagers

interesting insights into the behaviors of teenagers

teenagers culture drm eBay google yahoo myspace facebook
october 2005 by sogrady

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It's a nice day for an iPod wedding | CNET News.com

too funny; iPod's permeate social settings in ways i would not have predicted

iPod culture
september 2005 by sogrady

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Once More unto the Breach: On Why I Left Microsoft

tremendous post from Stephe Walli on his MSFT experience

walli microsoft culture
september 2005 by sogrady

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r0ml.net ‽ Blog Archive ‽ Lead Poisoning

never thought of it this way; another gem from r0ml

r0ml attention economy history media privacy psychology culture technology
september 2005 by sogrady

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This Commons Just Isn’t Creative | The Register

interesting, i hadn't realized that my CC licensed content is neither interesting nor creative, and is guaranteed to make me no money. guess it just shows how dumb i am for picking it

cc culture creativity commons
august 2005 by sogrady

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Neil Gaiman

interesting piece on writing from Gaiman; a lot like Graham's recent essay

gaiman writing creativity culture ideas source
august 2005 by sogrady

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moderately famous dot com ‽ Blog Archive ‽ If Dave Eggers had AIM

continuous-partial-attention prevents HWOSG? hilarious (via Jordan)

humor culture eggers
august 2005 by sogrady

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The Costco Challenge: An Alternative to Wal-Martization?

yet another reason to shop Costco over Wal-Mart