January 2012
1 post
A List of Don'ts for Women on Bicycles circa 1895... →
makingitweird:
nevver:
Don’t be a fright.
Don’t faint on the road.
Don’t wear a man’s cap.
Don’t wear tight garters.
Don’t forget your toolbag
Don’t attempt a “century.”
Don’t coast. It is dangerous.
Don’t boast of your long rides.
Don’t criticize people’s “legs.”
Don’t wear loud hued leggings.
Don’t cultivate a “bicycle face.”
Don’t refuse assistance up a hill.
Don’t wear clothes...
December 2011
3 posts
“While folks are sometimes indignant that others’ expectations about them depend...”
– Robin Hanson’s recent post helps sum up my view on this Penelope Trunk vs. The Universe ordeal.
November 2011
5 posts
The Artist →
Want to see immediately.
October 2011
7 posts
7 tags
G-Eazy (ft. Janis Joplin) - Mercedes Benz
Hard-up...
“A great truth is a statement whose opposite is also a great truth.”
– Neils Bohr
September 2011
5 posts
10 Things Everyone Should Know About Time →
From Cosmic Variance.
Sharps - Burning Man Set 2011 →
FEAST YOUR EARS.
Are Nations Tribes? →
“…everyone agrees that we heroically help some, and leave others to die. We only disagree on who falls into which category.”
Well played, Robin Hanson.
“The safer skydiving gear becomes, the more chances skydivers will take, in order...”
– Bill Booth (Booth’s Rule #2)
How Alcohol and Prostitution Make Uber Better →
Leave it up to Uber to pick up OkCupid’s AWESOME SOCIETAL DATA BLOG slack after the latter sold out to Match.com.
August 2011
4 posts
1 tag
“The Sound of America Dying”...
4 tags
July 2011
10 posts
“He wasn’t supposed to be lost; he was supposed to be finding!”
– The Verona Project
““We the entrepreneurs believe at some level that we have the next Facebook,...”
– There is NO Bubble…There is Entrepreneur Envy! | Howard Lindzon (via centraldogma)
July 18, 2011
I am looking at the final web page before filing my new company for incorporation online, and I get the email buzz on my phone. After months on the wait list (itself something I am seriously proud to have achieved), I see the official rejection letter from Mayo Medical School.
Couldn’t be happier.
June 2011
3 posts
Regarding Groups
I recently had breakfast with a friend who is a developer at Path, and I was giving him some feedback on the Stacks feature, which is a major pain point for me. The idea behind Stacks is to group your posts by “People”, “Place”, and “Thing” so you can go into the app and look at all the posts that I’ve tagged Cesar in, or that I’ve taken at Andalu,...
April 2011
3 posts
One of the best-designed systems in the country... →
jayparkinsonmd:
healthpolitics:
For the fifth straight year, the US highway system set a record low number of traffic fatalities. Through the ultimate combination of built environment, carefully-calibrated enforcement levels and incentives, and extensive buy-in from auto manufacturers, a large number of moving pieces with different agendas have come together to keep people safe in ways that...
What do you blog about
when you’re on the wait list at your #1 choice med school?
February 2011
2 posts
January 2011
2 posts
December 2010
3 posts
“If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don’t...”
– Edwin Land to Polaroid employees, December 23, 1942
Cue sigh of relief
My first interviewer at Mayo Medical School did some pre-interview Googling. He found the rather controversial position I took in the Disruptive Women blog and we had a lively debate about it that took up the majority of the interview time.
SERIOUSLY glad I learned early on how to keep tabs on my web presence. Not only will my efforts keep me from getting the ax in admissions offices, but it...
November 2010
11 posts
How Video Games Are Infiltrating--And... →
“In 2003, two researchers at the University of Southern California studied the impact of violent video games on brain activity. Test subjects climbed into an MRI machine and played a popular shoot-‘em-up. These machines tend to be cramped and noisy; people usually want a break after 20 minutes. But the test subjects were happy to remain crammed inside one for an hour or more.
Such...
