A Maker’s vs. Manager’s Schedule
There's an idea I've read about when it comes to how different kinds of people schedule their day. It's Maker Vs. Manager. Managers schedule in one hour blocks. There's usually not a question about whether or not there's a meeting at 2:00, it's a question of who that meeting is with. Makers think in half-day blocks. Three, four, or more hours for a single task. Writing, coding, creative problem solving, etc, are all done best with a lot of hours put toward them all at once. Most of the article above deals with how these two kinds of people can Read more…
Trying a new theme
All the sidebar information is sitting at the bottom now, but I kind of like the simplicity. Thoughts?
This is my biggest problem with the MPAA.
“Saw 3D,” which hit theaters last week, earned the designation for innumerable scenes of violence, torture and depravity; “The King’s Speech,” which will be released at Thanksgiving, got it for one brief scene where the future king of England, encouraged by his therapist, utters a volley of swear words to cure his stutter. To call the decision crazy and unhinged would be to let the MPAA off too lightly. Its ratings decisions, which frown on almost any sort of sex, frontal nudity or bad language but have allowed increasing amounts of violence over the years, are horribly out of touch Read more…
Artisanal pencil sharpening! For the cartoonist who has everything …
via artisanalpencilsharpening.com Just $15/pencil!
$1000/day for half of all tweets
And then there’s Twitter, which jealously guards access to its full stream of tweets (roughly 1,000 per second, these days). As of now, however, it’s signed a deal with Gnip whereby you can get a randomly-selected 50% of those tweets for $360,000 a year, which works out at $30,000 a month. You’re not allowed to republish them, but that’s OK—the people willing to spend that kind of money are likely to be high-frequency trading shops who want to keep the data as private as possible in any case. via blogs.reuters.com I had to look up what a high-frequency trading shop Read more…
Warren Buffett’s letter to Uncle Sam. Well worth a read.
DEAR Uncle Sam, My mother told me to send thank-you notes promptly. I’ve been remiss. via nytimes.com
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