May 2013
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May 24th
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May 23rd
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“And I am not advising younger women (or any woman) to tough it out. You can lash...”
– How to Be a ‘Woman Programmer’ - NYTimes.com (via techladymafia)
May 23rd
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May 22nd
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“You can see the elegance of the programming or the lack of it—code that is...”
– “Printing Makes Stuff Easier to Read,” Ellen Ullman, WIRED, April 16, 2013.  ___ I’m trying to write something at the moment, and the code is definitely larded.
May 22nd
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May 21st
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May 20th
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May 20th
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May 20th
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May 20th
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May 20th
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“Independent learning suggests ideas such as “self-taught,” or “autodidact.”...”
– Don’t Go Back to School – a must-read on how to fuel the internal engine of lifelong learning. (via explore-blog) GO KIO GO! Read her book. 
May 19th
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May 19th
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“But data has a dark side too. Chase it far enough and almost all advocacy data...”
– “Hard Questions About Data in Advocacy,” Christopher Wilson, Engine Room, May 16, 2013. It’s interesting (and I think correct) to begin with the assumption that information security is going to be compromised at some point, and that that means the safety of people is going to be...
May 18th
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May 18th
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May 18th
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WatchWatch
After watching this, you will likely admire Emilie and her genius work with food, desire, design, and behavior as deeply as I do. Highly recommend.  Link.
May 17th
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Red Pen →
Red Pen lets you upload your design, share a short URL, and get live, annotated feedback super-fast. It remembers you— there’s no logging in, no project management, no bullshit. I enjoy the design and copy of this. Feels right.  
May 17th
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May 17th
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“You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job...”
– When comments are better than the article, Atlantic edition (“The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials arent’ buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy”)
May 17th
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May 15th
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“So here is what works. Retweet the hater’s tweet, appending the phrase “I love...”
– Dear Twitter Haters: I, Eli Lake, Love Your Passion - The Daily Beast (via brooklynmutt) It’s a week for some great zingers. This is my favorite part of the post:  You should do this yourself the next time you are attacked on Twitter. And to any of my haters reading this who feel compelled...
May 15th
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The New Yorker Launches Strongbox
futurejournalismproject: newyorker: Today, The New Yorker launches Strongbox, an online tool for sources to anonymously send confidential information to our writers and editors. Read more about the platform here: http://nyr.kr/12b4Byx What does everyone make of this tool then? I am obviously very interested in this. Workflow internally (receiving the info) seems a little overly complex,...
May 15th
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explore-blog: Every once in a while — often when we least expect it — we encounter someone more courageous, someone who choose to strive for that which (to us) seemed unrealistically unattainable, even elusive. And we marvel. We swoon. We gape. Often , we are in awe. I think we look at these people as lucky, when in fact, luck has nothing to do with it. It is really about the strength of their...
May 15th
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May 15th
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May 14th
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May 14th
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May 14th
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May 14th
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May 14th
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May 13th
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May 13th
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May 13th
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May 10th
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“After learning my flight was detained 4 hours, I heard the announcement: If...”
– Naomi Shihab Nye (b. 1952), “Wandering Around an Albuquerque Airport Terminal.” (via awelltraveledwoman) __________ Really like the idea of traveling with a plant to stay rooted to somewhere. Airport gates can be transient communities too, as there is a shared experience for part of a day in a...
May 10th
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May 10th
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“I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that...”
– Joan Didion (via kateoplis)
May 9th
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May 9th
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May 8th
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May 8th
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May 8th
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May 8th
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May 7th
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WatchWatch
My sister Kat and her collaborator Christopher LaMarca have just launched a Kickstarter for their documentary “Boone.” It’s a great trailer (I like how they focus on the moments in the everyday life of new farmers) and a big thing for me is that the film doesn’t include experts or theorists - the footage is all this beautiful real.  Here’s the Kickstarter page. 
May 7th
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May 7th
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“The book is short, easy to read, and full of low-hanging symbols.”
– “Why I Despise The Great Gatsby,” Vulture, May 6, 2013.  Great line. When I taught the book at an agricultural high school in 2001 to hundreds of 11th graders, I had them form groups to power through the first two chapters - the first chapter just animates the narrator puppet and the...
May 7th
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May 6th
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I have a new jam.
March 15 was my last day at HuffPost. It was a position I never really announced, and one I felt ambivalent about when I gave notice after eight months. Sometimes we join organizations to change them from within, and I met some truly talented people that I will work with again. It’s really a small world. I am proud of a few things from my watch that would otherwise not have happened, which...
May 6th
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May 4th
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May 4th
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