TobiasCassell

Scott Berkun rails against Jonah Lehrer here.

http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2012/in-defense-of-brainstor...

24 hours not 24 years.

"Despite my differences with much of the Republican party platform, one thing that they are damn good at and I respect them for is an ability to communicate with their target base."

Yes- they are so good at this, its a great lesson in conveying with power.. George Lakoff beautifully explains how they do this in his book- "Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate".. You also mention they get the other political parties to use "their" terminology as well, George Lakoff goes through this in the book as well. I found a ton of communication lessons in the book, and I dont think the tone will alienate anyone, even though its clear the author doesn't lean too far to the right. A great book to read if anyone is at all interested in how the Right owns the game...

If drugs are legalized the United States will be forced to dream up and create other reasons to keep its military outposts in hundreds of countries. This is why we maintain a war on drugs. A war that is impossible to win. The United States will never legalize drugs.

PS I'm with richard Branson, but he is being naive or he is not mentioning these elements on purpose as a strategy.

Edit; Forgot to mention the United States Prison-Industrial Complex- that is even more anti-legalize momentum that would have to be addressed.

T-Mobile wont let me not have voicemail even if I offer to continue paying for it and not employ it. I just dont want it on. I never check it and I'm unclear why we must absolutely have to have it... I am not hearing impaired.

"I learned that I don't want to relinquish that [programming] duty to others. I will day to day. But I need to be able to sit down and do what I want to do if I want to do it."

-Trent Rezner

In the coming years the price of water will change considerably. You probably wont regret installing a rainwater harvesting system. Also, there is a way to finesse the wasted water that goes down the drain in the shower back into your toilet tanks.

Thank you for building this. I admire the simplicity and elegance. Would be cool if the "Mentioned 2 times at Hackernews" was hyperlinked to the mention. Can this be done?

These guys in Portland, Oregon have similar fun every year. If I recall correctly, the site used to be more descriptive but maybe it becomes more robust on the holiday.

http://turkeytracker.com/#&panel1-1

Edit Haa!!! This is what I was looking for, here is a wealth of information regarding live-streaming your bird's journey- http://www.turkeytracker.com/blog/

(I cant remember where I learned this from, might have been one of Guy Kawasaki's essays.)

While writing-

Write "So What/Why" on a post-it note and put the post-it note on your shoulder. Write "For Example" on another post-it note and put it on your other shoulder... Every two or three sentences, look down and glance at your shoulders...

From the book titled "The Myths of Innovation" by Scott Berkun-

"The talent for taking two unrelated concepts and finding connections between them is called associative ability. Persons with low associative barriers may think to connect ideas or concepts that have very little basis in past experience or that cannot easily be traced logically. Read that last sentence again: it's indistinguishable from various definitions of insanity. The tightrope between being strange and being creative is too narrow to walk without without occasionally landing on both sides, explaining why so many great minds are lampooned as eccentrics. Their willingness to try seemingly illogical ideas or to make connections others struggle to see invariably leads to judgement (and perhaps putting some truth to stereo types of mad scientists and unpredictable artists.) Developing new ideas requires questions and approaches that most people wont understand initially, which leaves many true innovators at the risk of becoming lonely, misunderstood characters."

Upvoted for the Carole Dweck reference.

Bring up Amazon in another window and order Steven Pressfield's "War of Art" and just for kicks add Hugh Macleod's "Ignore Everybody"... The latter will put a spotlight on the counter-productive external forces at play that is causing you to grind to a halt. The former will so deliberately and decisively shame you out of your so-called 'writers block' that you will have no choice but to snap out of it...

(Edit) Both books are about creativity. I used writers block in my post because writing is a common profession in the Arts. One book is written by an Artist, the other a writer- and in my opinion, both books will be helpful to any Artist. Including, of course, the Art of programming language..

Amen to that! And add some data regarding the dates of regulatory policy changes involving the High Fructose Corn Syrup.

Yes, I agree. I woke up thinking of lots of downsides and I'm back to my good, old, jaded self.

Yes, true. I think its shocking when something happens in our political system with absolutely zero downside. I never expected this, and perhaps it means a level of transparency/communication that was previously unattainable. I guess I'm shocked somebody I admire so much will have a voice in our challenges. I think its exciting, and I'm really happy about it.

Edit, I'm pretty jaded.. So anything good is shocking to me..

I am in Shock.. happy shock.. But, shock..

"This is equivalent to following Robert Scoble 21 times."

Thank you, this made me laugh out loud..

"The value of the idea is one part that it is yours and one part that you gave it to someone else. It’s you and something new."

I loved this..

Email sent..

Wow! This is great, in the time it took me to go see 'Avatar' in Imax3D you iterated your way right into taking up permanent real estate on my G1's homescreen!

Thank you very much Mr Trager, I like what you did. I have been using another Icombinator IPhone/Android App but yours is more pleasing to the eye.

One concern, it seems I have a choice of running the Op's links or the comments? But not both at the same time? In this respect the other Fella's mobile App seems like a better UI..

Thanks again..

Thank you, you are speedy.. I bookmarked your homepage and I'll keep checking.

A misleading title, a shameful tease.

Not available for HTC G1. I believe most Android phones out there in the wild are 1st generation, be sure to let us know when you release a version for us early adopter-types..

(Edit) I didn't intend to sound so snarky here, I just really wanted your app, its very beautiful.. Thank you for building it.

Up-voted, thank you for reading Pallotta's book, that book is a mindbomb...

I think the website is Beautiful, at least.

"Dont Make Me Think" by Steve Krug is a legendary book and You need this book too-

Neuro Web Design: What Makes Them Click? (Paperback) ~ Susan M. Weinschenk (Author)

http://www.amazon.com/Neuro-Web-Design-Makes-Click/dp/032160...

Maybe this is relevant?

This is the organization that created AutoModeling- http://www.acvt.com.au/research/videotrace/

This firm is working with it- http://punchcard.com.au/wordpress/

Partner with someone who thinks more linear.

(Although it's on the shortlist, I didn't read 'Flow' yet so I may not be able to speak with authority about his work.)

Hey cool, thanks for the link. It's been a long time since I was in school but back then every homework assignment was 100% what we covered that day. So if the "lessons" became unclear many folks just got further and further behind and for many there was no recovering at some point because the teachers never wanted to deviate from their schedule. Btillys 1/3 1/3 1/3 structure really resonates with me because I can imagine I would feel confident and never get in over my head as the complexity of the work escalates. (And if I fell behind I could use his 10 minute improvisational time to get clear) But back to the confidence, Video Games Designers want the player to be challenged but also to feel confident and of course this balance has to remain throughout all levels of the game. Video Game Designers have long used MC's work to help them incorporate this balance. So, yes I do believe the relationship between ability and challenge is part of MC's agenda- there is more, of course. It is my understanding that Video Games are the most common contact most people usually have with MC's work.

I made a connection between the successful feeling of playing video games with the successful learning experiences in Btillys class's and it would be interesting if Btilly is aware of MC's work or if he had ever thought of what he does as MCesque. In closing, I think you and I are saying the same thing here. Thanks for the comment..

Hey OP, was your technique influenced by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's Flow? I'm referring to the relationship between ability level and challenge. Do I see similarities with your clearly effective teaching style and some of the elements Video Game designers have almost unanimously implemented to great success?