Tijdens de lunchpauze viel dit 'geeltje' ons op. Wat een treffende observatie.

I've just finished watching a movie called Train de Vie. The scene, which made me watch the movie in the first place, is still the reason to see the movie.

"Truth," James insisted, "is not a stagnant property ... Truth is made, just as health, wealth and strength are made, in the course of experience."

from: http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2010/01/its_not_what_yo.php

I've been surprised again and again by just how much more important persistence is than raw intelligence.

Read the whole essay http://www.paulgraham.com/really.html

Too often we get stuck in inaction — the quagmire of doubt and perfectionism and distractions and planning that stops us from moving forward. [...] 

And so today I’d like to humbly present a few little rules of action — just some small reminders, things I’ve found useful but by no means invented, common-sense stuff that is often not common enough.

Read: the 13 Little Rules of Action
via @denkbeeldhouwer

I've found this article on Hacker News, a place I often visit for hacker-related news, thats why it suprised me to find it there. Good to see hackers are aware of these 'technological'- effects.

Time was when eyes met other eyes in conversation, and surely in the quest for connection. The wide-open gaze was no big deal. It was, in fact, commonplace. To be looked at was to be acknowledged, attended to.
Read the whole article here: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/complaint-box-eye-contact/

But why is real-time search valuable? Because it is instant. Whereas news articles take hours and days to prepare, and blog posts take minutes, tweets and micro-blogs can be tapped out and published in seconds.

from: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/ar...

[...] a process we call dogfooding (from "eating your own dogfood"). Well this holiday season, we are taking dogfooding to a new level.

from http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/12/android-dogfood-diet-for-holidays.html

“You gotta work hard and do for yourself, cause nobody else is gonna do what you want for you”.

from http://maestroknows.com/about/

Response: "If I'm not doing anything wrong, then you have no cause to watch me."

The Value of Privacy by Bruce Schneier