> On 23 December 1975, Rob Parsons and his wife Dianne were preparing for Christmas at their Cardiff home when they heard a knock at the door.
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> **On their doorstep stood a man with a bin bag cont...
> Thinking about creating a movement to promote **hobbit software**:
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> Pretty chill, keeps to itself, tends to its databases, hangs out with other hobbit software at the pub, broadly unbothered by...
> Many of these ocean-dwelling ancients evolved sophisticated sensors for light, sound, and chemicals. But, as far as we know, they did not communicate by sound. **It would take about another 200 mil...
> When art critics get together they talk about form, and structure, and meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
— Pablo Picasso...
> “If Kobe saw that you were afraid, it’s over for you — whether you’re the teammate, or family member, or whatever,” said Brian Shaw, who joined Jackson’s coaching staff in 2005.
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> Many tim...
> When everyone present has said something out loud, there is a greater chance that they will join in the discussion later. **Beginning with a handshake and an introduction also immediately levels ou...
> In the words of Winnie the Pooh:
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> **“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”**
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> That silly old bear sure did know a thing or two about living your best life, bu...
> Every once in a while I think about how my ideal note-taking app is essentially just a really nice/flexible GUI for a SQLite database — but I don’t think anything like this exists, and I think that...
> **My basic rule is: analogies are great for a sympathetic audience and bad for
> an antagonistic one.**
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> - If you're trying to illuminate something to someone who wants to understand your point...
One of the better NBA Draft stories:
> GM Billy Knight points out that Zaza Pachulia and Shelden Williams are the only Hawks who are wide in the thighs. "They are the only two guys we have who aren'...
> In the age of cell phones, the area code has become the ancestral clan name or heraldry. It is a marker of old stories, loyalties, a statement that says "there was a land I came from but am there n...
> The first useful thing Buchheit built was a search engine for his own email. (And it did indeed take only a day to accomplish.)
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> His previous project had been Google Groups, which indexed Usene...
> The amount of iterations you have on a project matter more than the amount of
> time you spend on it.
— [Mark Saroufim](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ldn_nCPNNQ)
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> A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. **The inverse is also true — a complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patch...
> Are we still obsessing over mythical big data? Because the real problem in most orgs is 50,000 very small data sets — some barely maintained — loosely tied together between Slack, Dropb...
> 80% of time on mobile devices is spent in apps.
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> 85% of mobile app time is spent in the user's Top 5 apps.
— [Ben Bajarin](https://martech.org/nearly-85-percent-smartphone-app-time-conce...
> Drinking Rivers is like if you’ve never driven a car before and someone puts you behind the wheel of a rocket ship and says, “Okay, off you go!”
More info: [Grenada’s Rivers Antoine Rum Distillery...
> Not to jump into solution mode, but did you consider adding a fourth _Sign up_ button here?
— [Jonas Maaløe](https://twitter.com/jmaaloe/status/1531598102850940929) on the state of Twitter U...
> **The oldest known building is a place called [Göbekli Tepe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Göbekli_Tepe) in Turkey. It’s a
> funny place because it didn’t have a proper roof or walls, and there’s n...