Jim Willis

  • Fans of Harper’s Mag will like this interview with their webmaster, Paul Ford. Covers paywalls and subscription models: http://bit.ly/dm08VD

  • Understatement: “I spend most of my time using Emacs.” Stallman on The Setup http://bit.ly/7h0qn3

  • Passionato is looking for someone with good MySQL and PHP skills (Solr skills a plus): http://jobs.37signals.com/jobs/6152

  • Good piece in today’s WSJ on Apple’s direction: Apple Sees New Money in Old Media http://on.wsj.com/8qExA1

  • First time since I installed Droplr a couple of weeks ago that I find occasion to use it and it doesn’t work. http://bit.ly/4s9j6Q

  • RT @goldenmeanie: http://bit.ly/7QhCv7 FoxWow! (Also love the other slugs: Child labor: The key to industrialization)

  • Coverage of Jamian’s by @redbankgreenman @RedBankJamian : http://bit.ly/7UpVcW Last month’s photo exhibit was seriously amazing.

  • Danny MacAskill (extraordinary trials rider on YouTube ) now eats a better caliber of take-out: http://bit.ly/53Taar

  • Just ordered four tix for Trey at @countbasiethtr on 2/14. A great venue for a show like this: http://bit.ly/4X2qgv

  • Good crew assembled for 7pm Globe, followed by Dub then Jamians. Many CBA ‘89 guys.

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Reading Notes

  • Read: Manufactured Anxiety: How Self-Improvement Became a Self Destruct Sequence
    Who profits from our constant state of dissatisfaction? The answer, of course, is painfully obvious. Every industry that sells a solution to a problem you […]
  • Read: My Friends Aren’t Reading
    the shifts have been in place for awhile. A certain kind of book—say those reviewed in the NYRB—will become like opera, or theater, or ballet, […]
  • Read: Pema Chödrön’s Three Methods for Working with Chaos
    • No more struggle: “Whatever arises, train again and again in seeing it for what it is. The innermost essence of mind is without bias. […]
  • Read: Why Not Bluesky
    The real problem, in my mind, isn’t in the nature of this particular Venture-Capital operation. Because the whole raison-d’etre of Venture Capital is to make […]
  • Read: The Tech Coup
    . The EU invokes a mechanism called the precautionary principle in cases where an innovation, such as GMOs, has not yet been sufficiently researched for […]

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