October 25th, 2008 | Published in long now, smart people
Reading Anathem has naturally lead me to the Long Now site and weblog. There, they have posted a link to a video telling the story of the oak beams New College in Oxford England. We need more thinking along these lines. And lots of it.
October 24th, 2008 | Published in smart people
Bob Sutton came to give a talk at Mozilla one day a few years back, and it was great. He’s a super smart, enthusiastic, incisive thinker who is genuinely interested in new and different things, and he invariably has interesting things to say about them. I don’t always agree with him (I do more often than not), but I sure as hell learn a lot from reading his stuff. Bob has a blog, and I think you should read it. Bob Sutton’s weblog.
