January 2012
22 posts
4 tags
“Any man-made thing should be well made and durable; it should be ergonomic and...”
– Principle 22 - Kevin McCloud
“There is hardly anything in the world that someone cannot make a little worse...”
– John Ruskin (via youmightfindyourself)
What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's...
Decades ago, when the Finnish school system was badly in need of reform, the goal of the program that Finland instituted, resulting in so much success today, was never excellence. It was equity.
Since the 1980s, the main driver of Finnish education policy has been the idea that every child should have exactly the same opportunity to learn, regardless of family background, income, or geographic...
December 2011
17 posts
“We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less...”
– The Joy of Quiet - NYTimes.com
3 tags
Raise Taxes on Rich to Reward True Job Creators →
By Nick Hanauer Bloomberg, Nov 30, 2011
It is a tenet of American economic beliefs, and an article of faith for Republicans that is seldom contested by Democrats: If taxes are raised on the rich, job creation will stop.
Trouble is, sometimes the things that we know to be true are dead wrong. For the larger part of human history, for example, people were sure that the sun circles the Earth and...
November 2011
13 posts
1 tag
How to be a person/novelist →
Murakami on how being obsessed with music helped him be a novelist
These are just as important a set of guidelines for music and writing as they are for how to be a person.
Have predictability or rhythm
Find a melody or a narrative
Create harmony to support the narrative
Improvise
Make it public/ship it
[via bobulate / rgreco]
