a mixed night for the New Zealand Tourist Board. Nice scenery, shame about the drugs, murder, and underage pregnancy
Quotes
on business jargon
Ever sign up for internet that claimed 20 Mb per second, only to find that your files download at 2.5 MB per second? They aren’t lying to you. Look closely and you’ll see that those two figures use different units: megabits (Mb) and megabytes (MB). Here’s what that means.
on mindfulness
Mindfulness, in contrast, involves observing without questioning. If the takeaway from research on cognitive biases is not simply that thinking errors exist but the belief that we are immune from them, then the virtue of mindfulness is pausing to observe this convoluted process in a non-evaluative way. We spend a lot of energy protecting our egos instead of considering our faults. Mindfulness may help reverse this.
on law and pivacy
the real culprit is the DMCA itself, which is constantly pushing companies like Google in this regrettable direction, and makes it all too easy for rightsholders like Inspection 12 to abuse the law
on need and building things
Always implement things when you actually need them, never when you just foresee that you need them.