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BRYCE DOT VC: Writing As a Competitive Advantage 

Never underestimate the power of the pen, or as is the case in our digital world, the keyboard…

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Yes, a thousands times yes.

brycedotvc:

This is what the long game looks like.

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lovely.

First Taste (by TEDxSydney)

Parents everywhere enjoy this awesomely true video of children tasting new foods for the first time. Love it.

herosquad:

Four Tet explains his live set up

(via Red Bull Music Academy)

this is bananas.

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Nature.

arpeggia:

Andreas Gursky - Bahrain, 2005

what I would do to have one of his photos dominating one of my walls.

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This is tumblr bait, but it’s terrific. So here we go.

The IRL Fetish – The New Inquiry (via s-m-i)

I am building something that potentially capitalizes on this fetishization. Then again, the fetish may actually get us to reconsider the balance and while the temporary state of affairs is absurd, the long term realignment is probably a good thing.

A proper reading room.

brutalgeneration:

By Børge Wahl

Compare these two quotes. The first from Nick Bilton. He’s remarking on the Google I/O experience. The second is from Neal Stephenson’s third novel “Snowcrash.” The parallels are surprising and possibly terrifying:

“Everywhere I looked at the conference, people were wearing Google Glass. Hundreds of them. Maybe more than a thousand! They were on the escalator. At the coffee stations. Press lounges. Lingering in the hallways like gangs of super nerds. They looked like real people as they nibbled on M&M’s and nuts at the snack bars. Except they weren’t; these “humans” were able to take pictures with their eyes and then post them to the Internet.”

-Nick Bilton

Gargoyles represent the embarrassing side of the Central Intelligence Corporation. Instead of using laptops, they wear their computers on their bodies, broken up into separate modules that hang on the waist, on the back, on the headset. They serve as human surveillance devices, recording everything that happens around them. Nothing looks stupider; these getups are the modern-day equivalent of the slide-rule scabbard or the calculator pouch on the belt, marking the user as belonging to a class that is at once above and far below human society. They are a boon to Hiro because they embody the worst stereotype of the CIC stringer. They draw all the attention. The payoff for this self-imposed ostracism is that you can be in the Metaverse all the time, and gather intelligence all the time.

-Neal Stephenson

Incomplete Manifesto for Growth

Bruce Mau’s 43 lessons (and growing) are remarkable. We felt this was particularly relevant to the work we do at Blackstrap on behalf of our readers.

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A big reason why we made Blackstrap. Stated simply.

mmmmarginalia:

a picture, Ruben Aubrecht (2004)

A Picture breaks down a digital photo into its component parts, the source code. The entire body of information contained in the now indecipherable picture is bound into a book. (via ruben aubrecht - work)

Love this.

Tomorrow is Bike to Work Day in NYC. Why not give it a shot.

Well this is a bomb of musical awesomeness. Kind of M83ish and I like it quite a bit.

laughingsquid:

Breathtaking GoPro Video Shows Installation of Final Section of One World Trade Center Spire

Wow. Just wow.

lovesouthkorea:

If you want to experience a miracle during your time in Korea, then pay a visit to the Jindo Miracle Sea Festival, which runs from April 7 to April 9. Once a year in Jindo, a tidal phenomenon occurs and the sea miraculously “parts”. This phenomenon is caused due to the difference in high tides and low tides, which creates a 2.8-kilometer-long road measuring 40 to 60 meters in width. The spectacular sight of the waves parting is widely known and many people travel to Korea from all over the world just to witness this amazing event.

Robin Hanson

Perhaps this is why social media works so well.