“If the Marine Corps wanted you to have a wife, it would have issued you one!”
the military was never meant to be the job opportunity of last resort for married couples and single parents
Category: Contemplation
Big Idea 2013: Stop Worrying About Efficiency | Ron Baker | LinkedIn
Attacking efficiency is like attacking motherhood and apple pie, but I am going to do it anyway. The tedious quest for efficiency is a false talisman. What happens when we are efficient at doing the wrong things?
Companies have learned costs are easier to compute than benefits, so they cut the costs in the denominator to improve the efficiency—the equivalent of Walt Disney producing Snow White and the Four Dwarfs. Efficient, yes; effective, hardly.
Source: Big Idea 2013: Stop Worrying About Efficiency | Ron Baker | LinkedIn
The Web We Lost – Anil Dash
We’ve lost key features that we used to rely on, and worse, we’ve abandoned core values that used to be fundamental to the web world. To the credit of today’s social networks, they’ve brought in hundreds of millions of new participants to these networks, and they’ve certainly made a small number of people rich.
But they haven’t shown the web itself the respect and care it deserves, as a medium which has enabled them to succeed. And they’ve now narrowed the possibilities of the web for an entire generation of users who don’t realize how much more innovative and meaningful their experience could be.
Source: The Web We Lost – Anil Dash
From Horse Power to Horsepower to Processing Power – Freakonomics Freakonomics
Nobody has mentioned this yet, but the number of organ donors will plummet when the supply of auto accident victims dries up, though I’m sure all of us would accept that trade-off.
Source: From Horse Power to Horsepower to Processing Power – Freakonomics Freakonomics
Teach U.S. kids to write computer code – CNN.com
Douglas Rushkoff says digital literacy is not a priority in our schools, impeding kids’ understanding of the digital world and crippling U.S. competitiveness.
Computer Science is not just a STEM — science, technology, engineering and math — subject, but a liberal art as well. Being able to think critically about digital media environments means being able to think critically about our world.