London’s prettiest and most Instagrammable bookshops
Any one of these is what I imagine heaven looks like.
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We could continue to flock to Twitter and Facebook — we could keep paying those who have and will rip off democracy for a stock price — or we could turn our backs and help the open web instead. — Brent Simmons on why he uses Micro.blog
So much yep.
“It is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.”
— Dr. Martin Luther King , Jr.
This is important.
Michael Wade gives us The Focus Formula. This is important.
Wired says RSS readers are due for a comeback. For some of us, they never went away.
Did you know that if you have a kid in 4th grade they can get a pass to get your whole family into one of our many National Parks for free, right? It’s called Every Kid in a Park and it’s why my family is visiting as many as we can this year.
If you too are a “circler” you know what I mean. We study the matter from various perspectives and look for the best approach and for strong and weak spots. We are driven by a desire to get it right and do not like to take the castle by rushing into the moat.
(Me: {nods head and raises hand})
Really great piece about how Charlie Munger of Berkshire Hathaway became an “expert-generalist” and how one might go about becoming one too.
Experiments into other ways: The great wall of money
Experiments into other ways: The great wall of money
Take what you need, leave what you don’t…
A fascinating experiment in community and kindness. (via Boing Boing)
On Kottke, a selfish argument for making the world a better place. Some food for thought. That said, heavy on the argument but not on solutions (which are far, far, more difficult for many complex reasons).