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Rethinking Growth

3 May 2011 -

Herman Daly interviewed for Seed magazine:

What we tax mostly now is income from the input of labor and capital, what economists called “value added.”

Value added to what? To the resources extracted from nature, which are treated as zero. So, the idea is to shift our tax base away from value added and toward the resources themselves. If we want to increase efficiency, then we have to begin by making things more expensive. We’re careful how we use gold. We’re not so careful how we use aluminum.

Private City

28 Apr 2011 -

Melissa Febos writes about living in New York and crying in public.

In a place where we are so rarely alone, we find privacy in public. We all have our masks, behind which we are free to be, yes, depressed, or any other emotional state we may not want to share with 30 fellow passengers.

Eating well

25 Apr 2011 -

Michael Pollan in a long and interesting article on food and nutrition:

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

So simple.

Sad as Hell

11 Apr 2011 -

Alice Gregory reviews Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story for n+1:

It’s hard not to think “death drive” every time I go on the internet. Opening Safari is an actively destructive decision. I am asking that consciousness be taken away from me. Like the lost time between leaving a party drunk and materializing somehow at your front door, the internet robs you of a day you can visit recursively or even remember. You really want to know what it is about 20-somethings? It’s this: we live longer now. But we also live less. It sounds hyperbolic, it sounds morbid, it sounds dramatic, but in choosing the internet I am choosing not to be a certain sort of alive. Days seem over before they even begin, and I have nothing to show for myself other than the anxious feeling that I now know just enough to engage in conversations I don’t care about.

Work Your Ass Off

7 Apr 2011 -

Will Shipley on success:

We’re blindly following past lottery winners thinking we can win the lottery, too, if we just emulate them. But, mostly, lotteries create lots of small losers. Losers aren’t written about in magazines, but they’re the majority.

And further:

This doesn’t work. Your idea sucks. No, I’m not calling you stupid — my idea sucks, too. All ideas suck, because they are just ideas. They’re worth nothing.

My success is because I worked to make the idea real. A lot. All my life. Starting when I was 12, I learned to program, and I’ve programmed every spare moment since.

Lego Wars

4 Apr 2011 -

Brilliant photographs of Lego figures set in Star Wars scenes.

Photographing TVs Turning Off

28 Mar 2011 -

Fascinating pictures of cathode ray tube TVs being turned off.

The iPad Does More

26 Mar 2011 -

JP Teti gets it:

Apple is encouraging people to explore and play around. The iPad only does less than a regular computer to us geeks. To everyone else, it does more.

Japan Before and After

14 Mar 2011 -

Devastating satellite images of Japan from before and after the earthquake and tsunami by The New York Times. Still, as Dave Ewing and others tweeted, the destruction would have been significantly worse if not for good engineering and government control.

The Joy of Stats

1 Mar 2011 -

Absolutely fantastic video with Hans Rosling explaining statistics and why it is so important as a means to understand the world and ourselves. Rosling, as always, is sparkling with energy.

Hans Rosling is among my all time favourite scientists.

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