Saturday, January 14, 2006
What is Your Dangerous Idea?
John Brockman delivers another amazing Edge installment, this one answering What is your dangerous idea? from 119 big thinkers: "Something radically new is in the air: new ways of understanding physical systems, new ways of thinking about thinking that call into question many of our basic assumptions. A realistic biology of the mind, advances in evolutionary biology, physics, information technology, genetics, neurobiology, psychology, engineering, the chemistry of materials: all are questions of critical importance with respect to what it means to be human. For the first time, we have the tools and the will to undertake the scientific study of human nature." /World Question Center 2006/
Friday, January 13, 2006
Job's Law
Forget Pareto's 80/20 rule for a moment and consider a Slashdot reader's description of Steve Job's approach to decision-making: "I'd agree except that I've talked to a lot of people at Apple both before,during, and after Steve Jobs return. He really is personally involved in the 5% of the most important decisions at Apple at any given time. That amounts to tremendous personal attention to the details of what is going on - and it also sets the tone for the other 95% of the decisions that get made when he isn't around." / Slashdot/
Sunday, January 08, 2006
Pandora "Genetic" Music Streaming
Pandora is a very cool streaming app that lets you enter a search item (e.g., artist) and then it auto-creates a seemingly-infite playlist based on 400 meta-elements (what they call the Muisc Genome Project). It is definitely worth checking out! /Pandora/
