Month: July 2013
The All Powerful Snooze Button
Laying here listening to my wife’s alarm go off, I’m struck by a significant societal shift which took place during my lifetime: the snooze bar.
A Story of Epilepsy and the Power Of Love
The Story Collider podcast has become a deeply integrated into my psyche, and my life. I stumbled upon the series via Radiolab. On my commute today, I listened to Sara Peters and Peter Aguero’s story about Sara’s epilepsy. This was very well done: by the end I felt connected to them.
So, I highly recommend you spend a few minutes of your life watching the video below (the podcast was recorded at TedMed 2013, so, thus, you get video). Your life will be the better for it.
(It wouldn’t be a bad idea to subscribe to Story Collider, too. Just sayin’.)
Alcohol Consumption And Arousal
A little tidbit to greet the 2nd 20% of your work week.
It explains a great deal, if you think about it.
Found this on Reddit
Perfection’s Obsessive Pursuit Destroys Effectiveness
The obsessive pursuit of perfection can destroy effectiveness. How easy would it be, continuously review, rewrite, redo a project. Keep revolving within this loop until its perfect, or we die. I would expect that giving into this loop, perfection would only be achieved well after the project’s usefulness was long past.
Red, White, & Blue
I’m wondering why our culture had a specific sequence to “Red, White, & Blue”. In the States, the sequence is always R, W, B. Curious, no? Think it’s related to a song? In sure there’s some cultural touch-stone.