finding value in “the golden age of graph innovation”

by JS on December 27, 2010

I’ve been playing around with Etsy’s taste test. Before you click on that link, I should warn you that it could potentially cost you a lot of money if you have poor shopping impulse control. What this nifty thing does (…)

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Everyone has unrealistic dreams of heroic success, right?

by JS on November 23, 2010

“Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of (…)

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How long has the sky been falling?

by JS on October 21, 2010

I came across Rebecca Solnit’s essay Finding Time today, probably via twitter. I don’t remember who linked to it, and now it has been in a open browser tab too long for me to reconstruct the path. It starts off (…)

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Moving photography? Still video?

by JS on October 21, 2010

Not sure what to call it, just know I’m fascinated by this. Seaweed from Tell No One on Vimeo.

more advice, this time from a book

by JS on October 18, 2010

“Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies; frequent coffeehouses and other liquid networks; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle, (…)

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