October 2011
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the problem of irreproducibility is tied to a bias in science toward positive...
– The Technium: Irreproducible Results
via Daniel Bachhuber
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What if you forgot about content for a moment and focused your efforts solely...
– Information Needs and Why Content-Driven Community Strategies Are Flawed - The Online Community Guide
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the Blub paradox: [Blub programmers are] satisfied with whatever language they...
– Paul Graham (computer programmer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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And just as Steve loved ideas, and loved making stuff, he treated the process of...
– Jonathan Ive on Steve Jobs and the fragility of ideas - Apple 2.0 - Fortune Tech
As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon...
– Shunryu Suzuki-Roshi
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to fix or improve something, first you need the right people, then you need the...
– People, processes and tools - swombat.com on startups
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It trained me to learn … to approach a new thing without any fear, and I...
– What’s Their Secret? - The Rice Thresher - Rice University
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But our love of stories comes with a serious side-effect: like all good...
– How Friends Ruin Memory: The Social Conformity Effect | Wired Science | Wired.com
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In the vocabulary of Donald Norman, operations combine to make actions, which...
– User Research Gone Astray | Thomas Park
That emphasis on consilience, even if it came at the expense of convenience, has...
– News Desk: Steve Jobs: “Technology Alone Is Not Enough” : The New Yorker
These products and others like them required a different way of looking at what...
– Let’s take news apps out of the newsroom and create products instead of content | Poynter.
Self-tracking, in this way, is not really a tool of optimization but of...
– The Data-Driven Life - NYTimes.com
an emphasis on efficiency missed something important. Efficiency implies rapid...
– The Data-Driven Life - NYTimes.com
We tolerate the pathologies of quantification — a dry, abstract, mechanical type...
– The Data-Driven Life - NYTimes.com
Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing...
– Ada Lovelace Day: Revisiting Limor Fried - O’Reilly Radar
Steve Jobs quoted in Fortune in 2000
many still think the business of making news is a bit like the business of...
– The Guardian is opening up its newslists so you can help us make news | Media | The Guardian
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That’s because, unlike a political campaign designed to get some person in...
– Think Occupy Wall St. is a phase? You don’t get it - CNN.com
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Other computer makers know how machines work and want humans to alter their...
– Steven Paul Jobs - NYTimes.com
on some level, all journalism today is data journalism. Real data journalism...
– 5 tips for getting started in data journalism | Poynter.
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I’ve realized how to articulate my answer to “what’s your profession?” and such...
– Jonathan Stray » What’s with this programmer-journalist identity crisis?
parents and teachers must navigate the fine line between giving kids a taste of...
– Every Child Is A Scientist | Wired Science | Wired.com
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