randomWalks

Over the past year, I’ve watched my credit score start low and go lower, and I’ve come to the realization that it’s complete bullshit.

Yes, the 300 foot trees can be found as far north as Oregon. They need to be within 40 miles of the coast because they require around 500 quarts of water a day, but they can absorb the water through their bark and needles and get up to 40 percent of their water from fog.

Wayback: web.archive.org/web/20111…

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"Talking and stretching are forbidden on the assembly line, and clocking in five minutes late may result in the loss of half a day’s wages. Bathroom use is limited to 10 minutes, which is strictly enforced by an electronic key card." The Deadly Labor Behind Our Phones, Laptops and Consumer Gadgets - COLORLINES

Ah, the perversity of it all just gets to me.

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fuck blogs (by jakedobkin)

In one of history’s ironic twists, a Gujarati man born in Bombay now owns the company that was set up at Leadenhall Street at the end of the 16th century by British traders and merchants who went around the globe looking for a good cuppa and some spices and ended up colonising half the world—including India, the jewel in the crown—before collapsing in 1873.

Apple competitors tried to rub the amulet for luck — and showed us what they really stood for: Cheap, imitative mediocrity.

The New Yorker Tim Ferriss profile is unremarkable. Save your time.

It isn’t just that he made computers cool or put them in pretty boxes. It’s that he put those computers in new conceptual boxes. A machine originally designed for processing equations and building bombs turned out to have a wonderful hidden potential: for song, laughter, poetry, community, family.

Is it now against the law to be dark and read a book about historic aircraft?

I spend almost all of my waking hours looking at, listening to, touching, or carrying an Apple device, except when I am taking a shower or have been chided for neglecting the children.

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(via Steve Jobs Resignation Has Chinese Netizens All Worked Up - Global - The Atlantic Wire)

“The Whole Earth Catalog,” a kind of hippie Wikipedia

On Saturday, a representative from the Federal Emergency Management Agency emailed Ms. Tien’s colleague, asking if @irene could help them with their outreach. (A suggested tweet from the FEMA rep: “People should protect themselves from me, I’m dangerous. Visit http://m.fema.gov for tips on your phone.”)

He treated them the way his grandparents had been treated by so many small minded Americans 100 years ago. He had risen from humble beginnings into a position of power, and then used that power to oppress people because they spoke a different language, came from a different culture, and were a slightly different shade than his ancestors.

At some point as a society we’re going to have to stop pretending that useful jobs will continue to be created at even close to the rate that they’re being made obsolete, and figure out what to do with all of these people with time on their hands. Anyway, derail.

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(via 500px / Photo “Steve Jobs” by Ryan Katsanes)

“You’re missing it. This is not a one-man show. What’s reinvigorating this company is two things: One, there’s a lot of really talented people in this company who listened to the world tell them they were losers for a couple of years, and some of them were on the verge of starting to believe it themselves. But they’re not losers. What they didn’t have was a good set of coaches, a good plan. A good senior management team. But they have that now.” [BusinessWeek, May 25, 1998]

Everyone leapt to their feet and applauded again for several minutes more, this time with Steve egging them on, applauding each other as a team. That moment has since defined what I think about as leadership.

We believe that we’re on the face of the earth to make great products and that’s not changing. We’re constantly focusing on innovating. We believe in the simple, not the complex. … We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us.

Even if Mr. Jobs does not get personally involved in future negotiations, music executives still fear dealing with Apple. One chit the company holds is the power of the iTunes home page, where it promotes music. They also say that the entire Apple staff, including Eddie Cue, the vice president in charge of iTunes who handles the relationships with the record labels, do their best to follow Mr. Jobs’s style in their own negotiating.

What are you going to do in the longer term?” Rumelt asked. “What’s the strategy?” Jobs, he recalls, “just smiled and said, ‘I am going to wait for the next big thing.’

These headbangers are angry and vindictive. They’ve been looking for revenge since ‘92 and let’s face it— you weren’t far from the scene of the crime.

Used to be Apple would add features like this for power users to find.