Not mine unfortunately. Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, apparently taught an after school computer class to 5th graders in 1995. Via Motherboard…
Then he pulled a floppy disk out of his pocket and proceeded to take it apart to show us what each piece did. In the back of the room were 30 brand new Apple Macintosh PowerBooks (1400c) on loan to us. He said that those who mastered the concepts would get to keep theirs at the end of the year.
Must have been a really cool class…
Software developers know this to be true, uninterrupted time is gold. Jason Fried, founder of Basecamp among other things, wrote this article, “What’s an hour?”. Read it to understand this post’s title.
Do you have 60 minutes? Or do you have 15 minutes, 10 minutes, 25 minutes, 5 minutes, and 5 minutes?
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I recently spoke to 600+ people at the Lean Startup conference. I asked “Who here can remember having 4 continuous hours to themselves at work any time in the last 5 years?” Maybe 20 or 30 people raised their hand. Out of 600+. That’s tragic.
He did this related TED talk several years ago…
I love carriage houses in Brooklyn, but these days they are crazy expensive.
This one is in our neighborhood. The location is excellent and the place looks fantastic.
But $5.6 million? Ouch.
I don’t often agree with the Op/Ed page of the Wall Street Journal, but they don’t often have pieces by the President of MIT.
Scientists are like entrepreneurs: They have an eye for spotting unrealized opportunities. It can be hard to predict where those leads will take them. But as we have seen over decades, basic science leads to the new knowledge that leads all of us to the future, along the way spinning off powerful new tools and educating a new generation of scientific pioneers.
That’s all the Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee except Dianne Feinstein.
I read so much commentary saying Trump’s flag burning tweet was a “misdirection”…
There are a few food items from Brooklyn that friends request when we come visit. Lard Bread is one of them.
There’s a thing you can find, mostly in Brooklyn, called lard bread. It’s bread, with cured pork baked right into it, and it’s not the slightest bit embarrassed about its name. We had ours imported from Brooklyn’s Mazzola Bakery.
That’s our local joint. We bought four loaves for Thanksgiving…
Via the NY Times, an amazing story of 1,000 year old shipwrecks discovered in the Black Sea.
I know in most places this is a normal thing, but we don’t see raccoons in Brooklyn. At least I haven’t in 20 years.
But walking home after dark tonight with my daughter, she calls out “raccoon!”! And sure enough, there’s a big fat raccoon crawling over the garbage by a nice brick building. And then he starts climbing up the drain pipe. Pretty quickly for a fat raccoon…
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