January 2012
19 posts
This Tech Bubble Is Different - BusinessWeek →
After a couple years at Facebook, Hammerbacher grew restless. He figured that much of the groundbreaking computer science had been done. Something else gnawed at him. Hammerbacher looked around Silicon Valley at companies like his own, Google (GOOG), and Twitter, and saw his peers wasting their talents. “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads,” he says....
Opposites (don't) attract
Although we love to repeat this optimistic cliche about human nature, decades of psychological research have demonstrated that the truism isn’t true. Rather, people seek out people who are just like them. This is known as the similarity-attraction effect, or SAE. Although there is slight variation in the strength of the effect, the SAE has been shown to exist in nearly every culture, from Western...
“Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the...”
– Pink Floyd
“If aliens decided to visit us then the outcome might be similar to when...”
– Stephen Hawkings on BBC News - Today - Hawking on the future of mankind
