Steve Jobs knew that he didn’t just need to out-design his competition, he needed to out-execute them
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Your success is a battle plan for your competition. Your success is a public acknowledgement of a strategy that works, and while I appreciate that you and your team are tired, I’m going to be a buzz kill. Your success is your worst enemy. Your success, while hard earned, is a curse.
@killercatch and @openplans’ sundial. (Taken with Instagram)
This is amazing… It took me a moment to get it, but then… WOW!
Portraits by Ghanian photographer Philip Kwame Apagya
Here is a striking fact about the human mind: we have great difficulty imagining solutions that have yet to present themselves. It doesn’t matter how often the market resolves seemingly intractable problems, we still can’t become accustomed to this reality. Our minds think in terms of existing conditions, and then we predict all kinds of doom. We too often fail to consistently expect the unexpected.
The voter matching process is still far from perfect. Blaise Hazelwood of Grassroots Targeting, a Republican firm, said that the process is expensive, and that it’s typically only possible to locate 20 to 40 percent of a given list of voters online in a typical matching process.
in 1885 The New York Times urged restrictive legislation and darkly predicted that “if the streets were lined with eight-story buildings, half of the occupants would be deprived of sunlight, and their children would be etiolated like plants grown in a cellar.” You can tell it’s serious when The Times brings the kids into it.
is your life this meaningful?
I fucking love NYC! #HDR (Taken with Instagram at Bogart art)
Many Americans believe that marriage is the union of a man and a woman, and most Americans live in states where that is the law today,” said Judge Michael Boudin, appointed to the bench in 1992 by President George H.W. Bush. “One virtue of federalism is that it permits this diversity of governance based on local choice, but this applies as well to the states that have chosen to legalize same-sex marriage. Under current Supreme Court authority, Congress’ denial of federal benefits to same-sex couples lawfully married in Massachusetts has not been adequately supported by any permissible federal interest.