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Procrastination feeds on distractions. Most people find it uncomfortable just to sit and do nothing; you avoid work by doing something else.

Television, for example, has after 50 years of refinement reached the point where it's like visual crack. I realized when I was 13 that TV was addictive, so I stopped watching it. But I read ( Read more... )

Priest Christopher. Fugue for a Darkening Island (1972)
*  У меня белая кожа. Светло-каштановые волосы. Голубые глаза. Я высок ростом - 180 см. В одежде немного консервативен: спортивная куртка, вельветовые брюки, галстук с узлом. У меня есть очки для чтения, хотя я надеваю их больше из притворства, чем необходимости. Я курю сигареты, в умеренном ( Read more... )

(http://www.paulgraham.com/lies.html)
Adults lie constantly to kids. I'm not saying we should stop, but I think we should at least examine which lies we tell and why.

There may also be a benefit to us. We were all lied to as kids, and some of the lies we were told still affect us. So by studying the ways adults lie to kids, we may be able to ( Read more... )

Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne are the unwitting inventors of a prototype for digital education.

(http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080404_004650.html)Every generation disapproves of the one that follows and barely claims to understand the generation that follows that. It's the way we are, simply because we tend to see everything in the ( Read more... )

(http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080321_004574.html)
Moore's Law ... There's a similar, if slower, effect that governs the rate at which individuals are empowered by the technology they use. Called Cringely's Nth Law of Computing ... it says that waves of technological innovation take approximately 30 years - one human generation ( Read more... )