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Seasonal suicides
google search trends remains an underused tool to create interesting stories. instead we have poorly informed j school dropouts making shit up.
Search terms implied that people are 24% less likely to consider suicide in the summer, among other seasonal fluctuations that may be useful in epidemiology for illnesses that are difficult to track.
Effort != Results
most companies manage inputs, like clock punching or attendance at meetings, instead of outputs (who actually does things). this leads to politics and the sort of theatrics described in this article. the fundamental problem is that most companies can’t tell who actually does something useful. cf also the recent yahoo debacle where marissa was trying to manage inputs because the outputs are so unclear.
Cook your cupboard
defrag your life.
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That was 90% gravity
Facebook Phone
amazing.
Virtual Choir
a bit of fakery going on (the singers are not live streams), but you can connect the dots to a very different future.
Money laundering at scale
i wish this wasn’t on a crappy slideshow site (Huff post), but:
wealthy individuals have $32t in private financial wealth tucked away in offshore havens — equivalent to the size of the US and Japanese economies combined.
Lessig on the Constitution
must watch.
Ticket to nowhere
“No I don’t buy a ticket every night. I buy a ticket one time, as long as it’s not punched it’s good. As long as it doesn’t have a hole in it. I done had this for 2 months.” If you never get on a train to get your ticket punched, your ticket will never expire. Some of the homeless people at Newark Penn Station have been there for years. One has been at the station for 19 years; another for 26 years.
clever hack
Gregor J. Rothfuss 