Brad Barrish

Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished - The Washington Post

Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished - The Washington Post

“For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission’s already accomplished,” he said. “I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn’t want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.”

“All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed,” he said. “That is a milestone we left a long time ago. Right now, all we are looking at are stretch goals.”

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Casey Cripe born 1984,  is a designer & builder & collector & explorer & observer & human. He lives in San Francisco, California.

Cripe creates multi-layered scientifically oriented visualizations that capture data in a way that is truly stunning. Working in analog mixed media and in digital collage, Cripe explores human anatomy, ecosystems, cosmology, phylum trees, current maps and the solar system in his work.

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So cool. I want a piece from this guy.

Most everything we add to our products starts out as a customer request. But, as we mentioned before, your first response should be a no. So what do you do with all these requests that pour in? Where do you store them? How do you manage them? You don’t. Just read them and then throw them away.
Getting Real: Forget Feature Requests (by 37signals)

Many adults are put off when youngsters pose scientific questions. Children ask why the sun is yellow, or what a dream is, or how deep you can dig a hole, or when is the world’s birthday, or why we have toes.

Too many teachers and parents answer with irritation or ridicule, or quickly move on to something else. Why adults should pretend to omniscience before a five-year-old, I can’t for the life of me understand. What’s wrong with admitting that you don’t know? Children soon recognize that somehow this kind of question annoys many adults. A few more experiences like this, and another child has been lost to science.

There are many better responses. If we have an idea of the answer, we could try to explain. If we don’t, we could go to the encyclopedia or the library. Or we might say to the child: “I don’t know the answer. Maybe no one knows. Maybe when you grow up, you’ll be the first to find out.

Carl Sagan (via perfect)

I feel like adults feeling this need to pretend omniscience is part of why some of us feel like we’re adulting wrong. Because adults never felt comfortable being flawed with us, so we feel we must be flawless now too.

(via geardrops)

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Parker (@boomcat) invited me along to Werewolf Heart for a quick video shoot with Trevor (@yungskeeter) from Spotify for an intro video for artists to get their stuff on Spotify. Coming soon.