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Roots by the Bottle
I transplanted my ghetto garden this weekend. I built some mini global buckets using juice and milk containers. This is what my sage looked like after growing in a Sunripe container for a few months.
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Courage in the Face of Pi
“Leaders are fascinated by the future. You are a leader if, and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress, and deeply dissatisfied with the status quo. As a leader, you are never satisfied with the present, because in your head you can see a better future, and the difference between ‘what is’ and ‘what could be’ burns you, stirs you up, propels you forward. This is leadership.”
- Marcus Buckingham, Gallup
Vi Hart is a leader. You can tell that math class burns her and she’s doing something about it. From Infinite Elephants:
So you’re me and you’re in math class yet again, because they make you go, like, every single day, and they make you learn about, I don’t know, the sums of infinite series. That’s a high school topic, right? Which is odd because it’s a cool topic but they manage to ruin it anyway so I guess that’s why they allow infinite series in the curriculum.”
She has 26 videos at the time of this writing and you can bet I’m going to watch every single one of them.
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LOL
“As long as the assumed purpose of media is to allow ordinary people to consume professionally created material, the proliferation of amateur-created stuff will seem incomprehensible. What amateurs do is so, well, unprofessional — lolcats as a kind of low-grade substitute for the Cartoon Network. But what if, all this time, providing professional content isn’t the only job we’ve been hiring media to do? What if we’ve also been hiring it to make us feel connected, engaged, or just less lonely? What if we’ve always wanted to produce as well as consume, but no one offered us that opportunity?
Once you accept the idea that we actually like making and sharing things, however dopey in content or poor in execution, and that making one another laugh is a different kind of activity from being made to laugh by people paid to make us laugh, then in some ways the Cartoon Network is a low-grade substitute for lolcats.”
- Clay Shirky; Cognitive Surplus
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Wrappin’ with Passion
You can reward someone for participation in several ways. Social scientists group these rewards into two buckets: intrinsic and extrinsic. Monetary payment is considered extrinsic and is probably not responsible for Rajnikanth’s skill at packaging. This is mastery at work, the intrinsic motivation to become better at what you do.
You can’t pay for that kind of dedication. He does it for the joy and the glory. A raise would just cheapen the experience.
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Sturgis North Motorcycle Rally
I’m in Salmon Arm this weekend for the Sturgis North motorcycle rally with my dad. Tomorrow we actually enter the grounds, but today we took in the chaos that 40,000 bikers bring to a town of 16,000. This bike spits fire and can accelerate from 0 to 200 in six seconds.
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A Traffic Jam with No Emissions is Still a Traffic Jam
Henry Ford’s great-grandson, Bill Ford, presents an excellent case for a new transportation model beyond the zero-emission automobile.
“Today there are about 800 million cars on the road worldwide. But with more people and greater prosperity worldwide, that number is going to grow to between two and four billion cars by mid century. And this is going to create the kind of global gridlock the world has never seen before…
Today, the average driver in Beijing has a five hour commute. Last summer there was a 100 mile traffic jam that took 11 days to clear in China…
The mobility model that we have today simply won’t work tomorrow. Frankly, four billion clean cars on the road are still four billion cars and a traffic jam with no emissions is still a traffic jam.”
