Someday perhaps I will go around carrying only a book, a change of clothes, a pen, a water bottle, a folding umbrella, and a little capsule that turns into my livelihood when opened. Rollable hi-res screen and keyboard, tiny computer the size of a cell phone or smaller but as light as a pen, with high-speed satellite connectivity anywhere on the globe. In this world, my sleeping bag, pad and windproof hammock weigh only a pound put together. For half of the year I travel the world, alone and with companions, with a small bag slung over my shoulder like Kwai Chang Caine. We sleep outdoors, travel on trains, and a few days of the week sit some place cozy and create beautiful software or solve interesting problems that improve the world.

Max Shron answers the question “What would be your dream setup?”

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1. Read Ian Hogarth’s post about founders and trust: Do I trust these founders with this market?

2. Listen to the first available track from Forss’ [Eric Wahlforss] new record, Ecclesia: Voca Nomen Tuum (also on Hype Machine). The full record along with a beautiful iPad app is out May 2.

3. Observe how it all fits together neatly, that a tech-savvy music creator started one of the most interesting audio/web firms of the past few years.

(Source: fascinated)

With this new release we want to take the opportunity to break the modern habits and move the process of getting original new music out of homes, stores and towns.

We take the direction of the forest. Six logs will host six tracks made for the woods. A map, pointing the locations of the logs, to walk through the forest, find the spots and download the music from it! 

We regret that in this age of the internet, the hunt for music - that special feeling of going to the store, looking for that special record, and going back home with just one thing in mind, playing it - is being forgotten.

http://rreeaallllyy.com/

We are unutterably alone essentially, especially in the tings most intimate and most important.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

I feel like there’s a red pill and a blue pill, and you can take the blue pill and go back to your classroom and lecture your 20 students. But I’ve taken the red pill, and I’ve seen Wonderland.

Tenured Professor Departs Stanford, Hoping to Teach 500,000 Students at Online Start-Up - The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Williams (founder of Gowalla) also envisions that down the road, you might be able to leave friends things like micropayments or free drinks (at a specific venue).

Just reread an article about Gowalla’s product vision, published about a year ago.

This would have been awesome.

What’s standing in your way? What would help you start and ship and create something of value?

Precisely because it’s easier and faster than ever before, it’s easy to be afraid to reach out, to connect and to commit. No one can help you with that but you.

Seth Godin

I graduated high school with a D minus average. (…) My guidance counselor said “drop out of high school, you’ll have an easier time getting into college if you just get a GED.” I [decided] to graduate with this D minus and see what it does for me. I didn’t get into any accredited school. I got into a diploma program in an art school in Boston, and it was near MIT. (…) I used the art school to make a fake ID to go to MIT. Someone said [college is] expensive. I said no, it’s free, you just won’t get credit for it.

Rob Kalin (Etsy founder) during Union Square’s Sessions Event, Hacking Education.

cowbirdy:

Introducing Cowbird

I am really pleased to introduce you to Cowbird, which, after 2+ years of work and 145,000+ lines of code, is finally ready to hatch.

Cowbird is a small community of storytellers, sharing heartfelt personal stories.

We are focused on a slower kind of storytelling than the frantic world of tweets and social networks. We use these tools (they are part of our consciousness now) but we also feel a craving for a longer-lasting kind of self-expression, so we have designed a space for self-reflection and deeper connection — a place for personal stories. Stories allow us to untangle experience, make sense of our lives, and find meaning. They are containers for wisdom and lifeboats for memory — helping us not to forget, and then later, not to be forgotten. 

(…)

— Jonathan Harris

What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447

The captain leaves the flight deck to take a nap. Within 15 minutes, everyone aboard the plane will be dead.

The Air France Airbus (that disappeared over the atlantic about two years ago) was technically perfect functioning and technologically state-of-the art.

It blurs my mind that one fault by one of the pilots and essentially bad (or missing?) instrumentation - that didn’t allow the other pilots to notice that fault - have caused the crash.

From his seat, Dubois (the captain) is unable to infer from the instrument displays in front of him why the plane is behaving as it is. The critical missing piece of information: the fact that someone has been holding the controls all the way back for virtually the entire time. No one has told Dubois, and he hasn’t thought to ask.

An instrument that displays all the course affecting actions, that are currently being made by the computer and the pilots (nice list-view), would have probably helped. Does something like that exist now?

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