A big “thank you” to whichever reader recommended I read “De La Mettrie’s Ghost”! The recommendation was made in comments to another post 2 years ago, and I only recently got around to reading it. In fact, I got annoyed with it at first, and put it down to finish a couple of other books. […]
[via Jeff] Jon Udell is joining our team at Microsoft. I’m surprised that none of the people I told about this leaked it before now
It’s a shame that he felt the need to defend against appearances of “selling out”. Let’s hope that’s the last time he feels that way. Anyone who’s followed him over […]
WSJ is running a debate between two of my favorite people, Dave Winer and Robert Scoble. We gave Dave “firewood as a function of distance and price” before he even asked for it, but I actually don’t disagree with much of what he or Scoble say.
On the other hand, I agree with Dave’s assertion that the […]
Reddit, the one company that would never sell out, has sold out. Aaron was the guy who gave them their “indie cred”, and he’s trying hard to maintain that cred. Right now, he’s experiencing the angst of realizing that money doesn’t buy happiness. But that will pass when Wired bids up Reddit’s attention to pull 10x […]
I recently read Ridley’s The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature, as a follow-on to Dunbar’s Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language. Between the two books, E.O. Wilson came to visit Microsoft campus and talk about one of his many works, The Creation : a Meeting of science and Religion.
It turns […]