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This teaser in today’s Business Insider SAI Select struck me:

Yes, Microsoft Did Change The World More Than Apple

Vision is important but it’s not the only thing.

I’d argue that Microsoft originally…

When you send emails from zenbilling, you get to choose a separate sender email and reply-to address. Usually they're one and the same, but sometimes you want them to be different.

The way I did this i…

I love Glyphicons - they're pretty, versatile, stylish, clean, well executed, well priced, and there's lots of them.

So I've created a Rails helper that makes it easier to work with them. It lets you d…

Adrian Slywotzky writing for HBR (via Daring Fireball):

But the idea, so common in this week’s media coverage, that Jobs was an inspired savant who succeeded by taking big risks on personal hunches, …

Lisen Stromberg:

The next time I met him was when our children attended school together. He sat in on back-to-school night listening to the teacher drone on about the value of education (wait, isn’t …

The longer this goes on, the more absurd it seems.

Today, Business Insider says the patents Google bought in the Motorola deal is crap, and that the reason Google bought them was the patents. Or so th…

Spectacular TED talk by Simon Lewis on the threats to consciousness, and how he was able to recover from coma to pretty damn smart and well functioning human being, and on how others can do the same.

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Sandra Czaja writing for Scientific American Mind (July/August issue page 57: Pop Star Psychology):

Many studies have demonstrated that exposure to sex, drugs and violence on-screen can make all thre…

Fortune, writing in 2000:

We entered 1999 with a feeling of having had tremendous success in 1998, what with the introduction of the iMac and all. And I was getting suggestions from people inside an…

What Would Steve Jobs Do?

It’s easy to fall into that line of thinking. 

But I’m guessing one thing in particular that Steve Jobs woldn’t do, is worry about what some other leader, no matter how succe…