When I feel the need to preach to my kids, I introduce it with, “I need 30 seconds to share something with you that’s been on my mind. Is your head in a good place to listen?”
3 Things I Know After 25 Years Of Being A Dad
This all really appealed to me and makes a lot of sense. I spend a lot of time thinking about how I want to be as a dad. This nails a lot of it. It’s largely the way my dad was. I don’t think it’s unique to dads either.
Ever watch “How’s Its Made” and there’s this complicated ass machine literally piecing together and building some kind of complicated product. There are arms grabbing, and lasers cutting, belts moving things, and just miracle after miracle of modern automation. Then there’s this dude who moves the finished product into a box and slaps a label on. And the viewer wonders why the fuck did they need a person to do that lousy step? That job doesn’t stand a chance.
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A god among men.
Introducing the iOS Location Channel.
Create Recipes that work with the location of your iPhone! Automate lights, social announcements, your home appliances, and notifications to family as you move about the day.
New Location Triggers
Use…
This is just awesome. I love you IFTTT.
Well, that didn’t take long. Less than seven hours after I posted a request and reward for a 23andme app, I had two submissions. Beau Gunderson and Eric Jain (who turn out to be friends) both submitted short programs that fulfilled my request. The winning version is at Beau’s site.
First, a little context. The point of this wasn’t to create a consumer experience, so don’t go to the link and expect one. It’s a download tool, no more and no less. But it didn’t exist before and now it does. What you will get if you click the link is the ability to store local copies of your genotype and health results.
This is awesome.
“Whole Lotta Love” for Artists on Spotify
Today for the very first time, you can go to Spotify and stream Led Zeppelin…
We’ll let that sink in for a moment… LED. ZEPPELIN.
In case you missed the news, this morning Spotify announced an exclusive deal to become as the only place fans can stream the band’s catalog. And if that wasn’t…
The fact that we (Topspin) has even a small part of this is like a dream come true. I mean this is LED ZEPPELIN! Holy. Shit. Someone threatened to include my Led Zeppelin tattoo in the post. Really glad that didn’t happen.
We must completely rethink school. We put kids in classrooms for hours each day and put an amazing amount of boring stuff into their heads. And the worst part is: they don’t even need this stuff! Forcing your children into knowledge is not the solution. We must have a behavioral approach to school.
And in order to do this, we can go much further than MOOCs. We must teach the young generation how to think not what to learn. And rather than constraining kids, why not making them enjoy their learning time? I’m pretty sure today that playing Legos taught me much more and much better than 20 years of school every day.
I mean, the government can collect everybody’s e-mails and calls, but they don’t have the resources to monitor them all. But what’s important about a surveillance state is that it creates the recognition that your behavior is susceptible to being watched at any time. What that does is radically alter your behavior, because if we can act without other people watching us, we can test all kinds of boundaries, we can explore all kinds of creativity, we can transgress pretty much every limit that we want because nobody’s going to know that we’re doing it. That’s why privacy is so vital to human freedom.
