Isherwood, we had a great time with Allison of Sandford Photography.

Congrats!

For what it's worth, I had a friend compliment Michael Jordan's cheeks one day. He was so taken aback he ended up chatting with her for much longer than I think he would've otherwise.

For me it's gotta be eyes.

Yes, beyond senseless and sad.

It would've been epic!

A simple case of supply and demand. In this case the economics work as one would expect considering the context of accessing wifi in a flying steal box.

That's pretty good ROI... What's a few billion dollars if you're getting trillions in return.

Boston is a great town. I enjoyed living off Mass Ave. between MIT and Harvard back in the mid 2000's. Congrats on getting back there!

I love to travel. Mainly because I get exposed to so many cool new things.. Moving is a lot like traveling, basically like a super extended travelling experience on a deeper level. When moving from Tallahassee to Atlanta for college I was awoken to all that a "big city" had to offer....more culture, more diversity, more public transportation, more places to do things after dark and into the wee hours of the morning. When moving to Atlanta to Boston, I discovered you could do even more things after dark and into the wee hours of the morning, especially if you were in China Town...good times.

Moving to cold climates made me realize that I'm only compatible with the warmer climates for the long haul. External things that you don't have control over, I came to realize, are a huge consideration for laying down your roots. To me cold is pain. To my wife heat is pain. So we met in the middle in moderate North Carolina. And since there are some cool folks in the area (back at you thenewgreen) it's easy to be like the Fonz and make the most of where I am and who I'm with.

Yes, that's was a great article. I especially like your note to self.

You land yourself in the circumstances you’re in, and that circumstance is death. With nothing done. Because only when you’re dead do you not have energy and you ran out of time. Find the energy, find the time and land yourself in the circumstances you want to be in — Note to self

That's some deep stuff right there and very true. I've been doing pushups as well, and have my goal at 20 as well.

I've tried a few streak apps that are based loosely on Jerry Sienfeld's productivity hack where he uses a calendar to mark his writing streaks. He said for each day he does his task of writing, he'd put a big red X over that day and talks about streaks as a chain you don't want to break.

"After a few days you'll have a chain. Just keep at it and the chain will grow longer every day. You'll like seeing that chain, especially when you get a few weeks under your belt. Your only job next is to not break the chain."

I've sort of settled on using the Habit Streak Plan app but am checking out Lift now. HSP has a pretty easy to use UI but definitely lacks some of the visualization features it seems like Lift possesses.

I'm always a sucker for bad jokes!

In most of Europe there is universal, good-quality preschool for three- and four-year-olds. In America, recent data show that fewer than half of all three- and four-year olds are enrolled in some form of preschool. Head Start, the main federal program, provides preschool funding for only about two-fifths of poor children in this group.

Early education is so important. Why can't the US be more like Europe and other parts in the world and provide it when gains are most prevalent?? Even more research suggests that early educations between ages 1-4 have a significant positive impact on outcomes. Do it for the kids!

Neato! Who doesn't like flags?!?!?!... and once you run out of current flags you can kick it old school with past versions of country flags.

Those who interact rarely with the police may assume that running away after a police stop is futile. Worse, it could lead to increased charges or to violence. While the second part is true, the first is not.

Of the 41 cases she witnessed....

In 24 of these cases, the man got away. In 17 of the 24, the police didn’t appear to know who the man was and couldn’t bring any charges against him after he had fled. Even in cases where the police subsequently charged him with fleeing or other crimes, the successful getaway allowed the man to stay out of jail longer than he might have if he’d simply permitted the police to cuff him and take him in.

It's all about what failure leads to.... Those who embrace and view failure as a positive are more likely to go out and try something on their own. Granted these folks are more likely to have the means or support system to take this risk. If they fail, no biggie. Fortunately, the Silicon Valley's culture celebrates failure. As this enlightenment cascades into our cultural consciousness opportunities after failure will be bountiful.. There's nothing like a kick in the butt to really learn what works and take what you've learned to hear.

Tell that to the family and friends of people whom GM murdered by sweeping this under the rug. Not enough in my humble opinion.

So true! Reminds me of the describing a manager like Michael Scott, from The Office. Everyone knows a boss / person like him. If you don't, you are him!

As long as you tag appropriately so users can ignore I think you'll be good to go. Maybe tag something like #mypromo with it?

I'm game! cxtopher, you in??

Love this!

If I could share this multiple times I would. It seems so obvious that reducing inequality leads to greater economic stability. Of course, if the rate is too high, the pendulum swings the other way. Fortunately, most modern economies are far from that tipping point.

If you ask me, at first blush this seems like bad move on Netflix's part. If Comcast or any other ISP throttled Netflix too much the subscriber blow back would be so hot, customer service lines would blow up... Why pay a bunch of money to the ISP, when their customers will blame the ISP, not Netflix, for poor service.

On the other hand, Netflix traffic is by far the biggest throttler of the Internet, gobbling 30+% of the bandwidth and they appear to have gone beyond their bandwidth consumption thresholds. Also, while I'm personally a huge advocate for net neutrality, Comcast isn't likely to even able to won't be able to sniff an end to neutrality for another 10 years or so once the merger with TWC is completed (assuming conditions with FCC are re-upped in order to close this deal). I wish more details about this deal had surfaced, because if the amount Netflix paid is obscene it does seem to potentially limit some smaller players / upstarts that are trying to bring disruptions to market, which is bad news, but something had to give at some point.

Wow, that is a HUGE growth rate for WhatsApp. 450 Million active users already, 72% of whom are active daily.

I like the quote as well, but I think it's flawed. One could argue that "the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities" is supported by surveillance to ensure certain rights and equality is upheld. It all depends on who and what and how the surveillance is carried out.

I'm not sure that honest people don't care about NSA Surveillance. While it's true that information/or misinformation collected/stored about someone could be damaging to said person. However, the tenant of this podcast on why one shouldn't want surveillance seems to focus primarily around abuse related to religious persecution (witch hunts, etc.). Further, to my knowledge, the data NSA is collecting on a blanket basis is not the type of data that would label someone who could be persecuted on religious basis.

If I knew more about the reality of what the NSA collects and stores, I could certainly be persuaded, but I don't currently so I don't worry about it. For me personally, I'm more of a John Stuart Mill's greatest good fan on this issue. Whatever is in the best interest of the whole (everyone) is probably the way to address NSA actions. So if collecting phone numbers/call information that can be used to prevent a massive deadly event then I'm okay with this level of "surveillance."

I think it's scary to think somehow something I say (or worse didn't) could come back to haunt me, but on the other hand I'm pretty confident this won't occur in my lifetime. Maybe this belief is naive, but again if this naivety saves me or others from terrorist attacks then I'm okay with it.

;). Coming from the Atlantic, I figured. Satire and Hitler never mix so it's high time to pile on Fox News Style.

This article is absurd.The mere suggestion that the top1% is powerless is beyond ignorant and I'm sure O'Brien know it. Beyond this his premise of

"it's absurd to demonize the rich for being rich and doing what the rich do, which is get richer by creating opportunities for others."

What's so interesting to me is how easy it is to tap into all the available feedback looks. Just look at kickstarter or indiegogo. You essentially can throw ideas / concepts / prototypes out to the masses to fund, thus confirming the market's viability. It's possible to create concepts and throw them out to the market and see what sticks. Alternatively, you can do the opposite. Listen for market demands and once identified, fulfill those needs. There is a treasure trove of data on social media that can show sentiment and needs in the aggregate. Exciting stuff. If the aggregate isn't your bag, just mine individual needs and create one off solutions for those individuals... your options are almost limitless.

The biggest challenge is making your artificial research appear human... or put another way not spamming feedback providers.To get something that hits, you need scale and that requires the appearance of a human product launch.

I like the MRIAB concept.

This Market Researcher in a Box could sift through all that juicy data on the nets, figure out trends, decide out what consumer products are “needed” feed them to the EIAB which then designs them.

Been working on this myself.

Definitely valid points. There are certainly misleading correlations and I absolutely agree with you about the laziness of some pop psychologist writers that make this blind leap too often. But given the option of facing a decision made with strong correlation and under decent levels of confidence thresholds, I'd be more inclined to base my decisions on these correlations to inform some of my decisions. Of course this assumes that mitigating factors in the study are accounted for and my gut is not actively steering me another direction... PS: The stock market falling with AFC winning the Superbowl stat is awesome!

Some interesting points kleinbl00 though I have a different take on some of them. First what I agree with... Yes, knowing your data absolutely yields better and more predictable/useful results. This is particularly true with understanding the data integrity, without which no good analysis can be definitive. Also, if you want your analysis to be understood by you and your audience, I'll bang the less is more drum all day. However, assuming one is analyzing data they don't know much about other than it has integrity, it's here a divurge. In this scenario, untold and surprising discoveries can occur. Discoveries that would not have been found if analysis was taken under the curse of knowledge (read: analyzed under the constructs of what you know (or assume to be absolute).

This to me is what is so exciting about the world of big data. While scary for sure, and unmanageable for many lots of data can transform industries.

Another sad example of the Police more concerned with Protecting themselves than Protecting and Serving the people they are supposed to serving. You'd think they'd at least learn Sampson isn't a threat therre by now.