• How I Do Proofs
  handy flowchart
• YouTube - ABC Nightline - IDEO Shopping Cart
  ideo redesigns the shopping cart in 3 days. amazing. 8 minutes long
• A graduate school survival guide: "So long, and thanks for the Ph.D!"
  "We discovered that we could tell what performance group the interviewees belonged to within a minute or two by their attitudes toward people and politics. Individuals who were ranked low by their managers spoke of organizational politics as if it were poison. They were exceptionally annoyed by the people side of the business. They frequently stated they would rather be left alone to conduct their research untrammeled by human emotions. Top performers, in contrast, found a way to work within the political system. They hadn't exactly embraced politics. They didn't come off as glad-handling sales folks. These were professional scientists who were often top ranked in their field. They looked and talked liked scientists. The difference between them and those ranked at the bottom of the totem pole was clear. They had found a way to make peace with organizations, people, and politics. They climbed to the top of their field by mastering both hard things and soft and gushy people."
• 'I took my kids offline' | Life and style | The Guardian
• The Lie Guy - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

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• Ramit Sethi’s surprising lessons from A/B testing | Random.AndrewWarner.com
  "I learned that I can eke out an extra 5-15% from improving the subject line…or 500% from creating a better offer. Finally, I learned that there are diminishing returns on A/B testing, but there are huge gains to be made from changes in strategy, products, and offers."
• Genetic Algorithm For Hello World « puremango.co.uk
  Really cool! also encouraging that the author shows how to implement it - you need some way to represent the problem output as a string/array of ints, and some way to measure fitness.
• The Psychology of People Against Profit, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  A look at a new paper called "Is Profit Evil?" - conclusion: "People apparently have little faith in the power of markets to create and reward value for society. Our participants associated greater levels of profit with social harm and less social value. Further, they saw greater profits as undeserved and at the expense of others. Though firms themselves were not seen as generally evil or devoid of value, profit was viewed as evil. Increasing firm profitability (or profit motive) greatly detracted from perceived social value... Even in one of the most market-oriented societies in human history, people do not believe in the invisible hand."
• In These Deserts: War Stories from Afghanistan.
  great story
• The Inequality That Matters - Tyler Cowen - The American Interest Magazine
  excellent - i wish tyler cowen would write more long form journalism

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• Budget Busting - Megan McArdle - Business - The Atlantic
  "I view both parties right now as engaged in a colossal game of chicken.  Everyone knows that eventually, we are going to have to do something about the budget deficit.  So everyone wants to pass legislation that will be politically toxic to undo.  The idea seems to be that when the moment of truth finally arrives, the other side will have to make more concessions."  
• Chinese tourists: A new Grand Tour | The Economist
  the places chinese tourists visit in europe. really interesting
• The Internet - It's made out of meat.
  "And with each iteration, the spam gets more subtly targeted, and the spam filters get better at distinguishing human beings from software, in a bizarre parody of the imitation game popularized by Alan Turing (in which a human being tries to distinguish between another human being and a piece conversational software via textual communication) — an early ad hoc attempt to invent a pragmatic test for artificial intelligence."

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• Obama and Income Inequality: No New Brazils! - Newsweek
  In Washington, if something's obviously desirable that means it's a bargaining chip.
• Low Skills causes Procrastination - Chester's posterous

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• Why does Finland get the highest test scores?
  immigrants don't score as well and finland has few immigrants. USA scores better when scores are adjusted. Interesting throughout

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• Why Are Insecure People Better at Dating? -- New York Magazine
  Insecurity strengthens relationships
• Rob Delaney - On Depression & Getting Help
  tagged mostly because the guy got depressed once he sobered up. ugly tradeoff, he might also have been depressed while drinking
• Honeybees are found to interact with Quantum fields
• How to hide Thinking at Work so that the Non-Programmers don't suspect Slacking? - Stack Overflow
  think of programming like sudoku - lots of time spent thinking, comparatively little time spent writing numbers. it's not slacking off

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• NFL on television - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  long, interesting

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• A Solitary Jailhouse Lawyer Argues His Way Out of Prison - WSJ.com
  amazing. guy's clearly innocent, DA office coerces witnesses into testifying against him, guy finds the witnesses from jail and gets them to recant. DA office refuses to admit they were wrong the whole time.

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• Falkenblog: When People Agree for Different Reasons
• Bianca, the Covert Toronto Escort with a Day Job.
  In both of my lives, I learned a long time ago to begin sentences with the question, "Do you want my honest opinion?" If I was going to release one fact upon world, it is this: no one ever wants your truly honest opinion, really. Honesty must be one of the most abundant resources with the smallest demand one the planet. If you think any relationship in your life is based on unmitigated honesty, try to remember the last time you said something unwaveringly true to those you love. An honest person is hard to even tolerate, let alone love.

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• 25 New Free High-Quality Fonts - Smashing Magazine
• “So You Want to Be a Journalist” « naked capitalism
  two things i will continue to like in the near future: xtranormal videos and photos of misspelled tattoos

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