Jim Willis

  • thinking I should tag the 700+ tasks currently in my OmniFocus app as “someday/maybe,” export them into an archive and then just start over.

  • Capo

    Capo

    This looks like a cool application. Slows down songs with pitch adjustment and looping for figuring out songs.

  • I won’t be going vegan until bacon starts growing on trees but this infoviz on slaughter rates is wild: http://bit.ly/HhNJF (via bittman)

  • Looking for a sysadmin in Monmouth County to handle networking/servers for a 40 person shop. Salary or hourly. Email sjwillis@willisbros.net

  • NPR’s Speaking of Faith this week was fantastic! John Kabat-Zinn on Mindfulness. First 30mins are def. worth a listen: http://bit.ly/NINxC

  • Is anyone from Red Bank planning on going to the NJ Connect meetup tonight? http://bit.ly/Is716 It’d be cooler if it wasn’t at Red.

  • Hastening the demise of community newspapers?

    Hastening the demise of community newspapers?

    I like this take here. It’s similar to how I view the email newsletter that i run for my neighborhood: Front Porch Forum’s mission is to help neighbors connect and build community. Any sharing of…

  • PBS Brings Bugs, Presidents and Soufflés to the Web – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com

    PBS Brings Bugs, Presidents and Soufflés to the Web – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com

    nice! this looks like Hulu for PBS.

  • David Prown and I are speaking at RBMS on Friday. Need some advice on explaining social capital and civic engagement to 4th graders. Help!!

  • Congrats to my neighbors Carrie and Ann who both held on to their seats in yesterday’s School Board Election, I’m proud to be your neighbor.

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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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