September 2012
“Employees who were already more productive tended to chose working from home...”
– Working From Home? You’re a Better Worker | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
Working From Home? You're a Better Worker →
infoneer-pulse:
If you’re a U.S. worker, there’s a 10 percent chance that you work from home at least once a week, and a 4.3 percent chance that you work from home most of the time. And if you’re one of those working from home, you’re likely a more productive worker, at least according to a study recently published by Stanford.
» via Wired
August 2012
“The second season of Game of Thrones aired from April to June of this year, and...”
– Gimme the Loot | Jacobin
“This is the fundamental difference between capitalists and pirates. Capitalists...”
– Gimme the Loot | Jacobin
“Just as the old pirates used commandeered ships against Atlantic trade, online...”
– Gimme the Loot | Jacobin
“Many of these individuals came from the software industry itself, where they...”
– Gimme the Loot | Jacobin
“Intellectual property makes up 80 percent of the net worth of US corporations...”
– Gimme the Loot | Jacobin
“A small surcharge built into the price of every cassette was the tribute...”
– Gimme the Loot | Jacobin
“In the early days of the republic, lacking international copyright treaties, the...”
– Gimme the Loot | Jacobin
“Performance has always played an important role in design (I’m not talking about...”
– On Performance « SB129 (via iamdanw)
“The relationship to handcraft is a beautiful one… You pit your faculties against...”
– Anaïs Nin on the magic of letterpress and the joy of handcraft – beautiful meditation penned in 1942, but timelier than ever. (via explore-blog)
“He does not know my other faults, else he would not have mentioned only these.”
– Selections from Epictetus
“But any kind of progressive work is difficult if we’re deluded about what we...”
– Designing Culture | Jacobin
“In addition to creating a bunch of new rules for servants’ conduct (stuff like,...”
– Designing Culture | Jacobin
“The idea that people learn their places in society by engaging with the physical...”
– Designing Culture | Jacobin
“Design’s real power is that it makes relationships and divisions between people...”
– Designing Culture | Jacobin
“As the popular argument goes, design enforces and reproduces existing social...”
– Designing Culture | Jacobin
“The most famous documented example of this process occurred in the factory of...”
– Designing Culture | Jacobin
“Industrial design in particular has been especially important in the creation...”
– Designing Culture | Jacobin
“Wiki Weapon is just the latest - and most dramatic - example of how technology...”
– How 3D Printing Is Inflaming The Gun Control Debate
“Leverage computers instead of catering to them.”
– The Cooper Journal: The best interface is no interface
“The real problem with the interface is that it is an interface.”
– The Cooper Journal: The best interface is no interface
“51 percent of respondents, including a majority of Millennials, believe stormy...”
– Citrix press release: Most Americans Confused By Cloud Computing According to National Survey (via Ian Gowen). (via blech)
I am Barack Obama, President of the United States... →
“Practise then from the start to say to every harsh impression, “You are an...”
– Epictetus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“My father, the first person in his family to go to college, tries to tell me my...”
– The closing of American academia - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
“One American research university offers its PhD students a salary of $1000 per...”
– The closing of American academia - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
“a 3-year-old-deaf boy has been told by his Nebraska school district to change...”
– Hunter Spanjer, 3-Year-Old Deaf Boy, Told By Preschool To Change Way He Signs His Name (VIDEO)
“Twitter also prominently displays the total tweets I’ve made and accounts I’m...”
– Frankie Roberto: The problem with numbers. (via blech)
“The longer you’re a bad listener, the smaller your world gets and the narrower...”
– Rands In Repose: You’re Not Listening
“Assume they have something to teach you”
– Rands In Repose: You’re Not Listening
“Some of my advice has to do with building these conversations, but my belief is...”
– Rands In Repose: You’re Not Listening
“The result of empathy is intrinsic and doesn’t require validation.”
– Whitney Hess » Pleasure and Pain » On Empathy and Apathy: Two Case Studies
“One person who chooses to — or who is intrinsically disposed to — act with...”
– Whitney Hess » Pleasure and Pain » On Empathy and Apathy: Two Case Studies
“Another key question: is it better to have the robot at eye level with a person...”
– TR35: Leila Takayama, 31 - Technology Review
“She also discovered that people in the offices ended up being less comfortable...”
– TR35: Leila Takayama, 31 - Technology Review 