abt. quotedHustler's MBA
“The Hustler’s MBA” is a modest proposal for a four-year alternative to university for recent high-school grads. Its proponent and originator, Tynan, suggests that four years spent learning to play poker, travelling, reading books for pleasure, writing daily, learning to program, socializing, eating well, chasing your curiosity, and starting a business is a “modern curriculum” that will provide you with useful skills, an inflation-proof income source, and “produce people better prepared for real life than college.”
^ kinda untested aber super
Overstimulated
It’s easier to tell the difference between two bags of flour that are three ounces apart in weight when one weighs a pound, than it is to tell the difference between two bags that are three ounces apart when one weighs twenty pounds.
^ kinda unfalsch
Punk API
Music is just one example of this pattern in cultural appropriation. Another can be seen today in the evolution of Web APIs.
^ kinda funny, Apis mit Punk gelesen usw.
ReQuoting pt. 78 (The Roth Edition)
Wikipedia succeeds by “not doing the things that nobody ever thought of not doing”
Cory Doctorow via Cory Doctorow (über den versteckten sinn als Philip Roth auf der wikipedia nicht Philip Roth einfach korrigieren zu können)
ReQuoting pt. 77 (The Bohemia Edition)
How would it become a thing, as we used to say? I think that’s one of the ways in which things are really different today. How can you distinguish your communal new thing — how can that happen? Bohemia used to be self-imposed backwaters of a sort. They were other countries within the landscape of Western industrial civilization. They were countries that most people would never see — mysterious places. You’d pay a price, potentially, for going there.
Der Parasit Revisited
aus gegebenem anlass #lsr ein etwas älteres zitat:
für das dahinmurksen [des deutschen webs] gibt es wohl viele gründe, zumindest einen strukturellen, den ich sehr spannend finde, möchte ich erwähnen:
das nicht ertragen können, dass ein anderer aus der eigenen existenz ungefragt und ohne direkte bezahlung irgendeinen nutzen zieht.
dieses grundgefühl zieht sich durch alle schichten und ist – so verständlich auch die haltung ist, wer wollte das schon – im web die blockade schlechthin.
paradigmatisch wird das von der kulturindustrie repräsentiert: zeitungsverleger halten es nicht aus, dass eine nachricht ohne direkte bezahlung gelesen wird und dass google davon sogar finanziell profitiert, musikverwerter halten es nicht aus, dass ein track ohne bezahlung angehört oder als untermalung einer slideshow benutzt werden kann und dass google davon sogar finanziell profitiert, usw., […]
komplementär zu diesem grundgefühl kommt der anspruch, aus der verwertung eines produktes auch noch den letzten tropfen wert aussaugen zu wollen.
dass auch die produzenten vorteile davon hätten, wenn sie ihre objekte/produkte netzwerktauglich machten, ist dabei egal. ich schneide mir lieber den finger ab, bevor ein anderer von meiner leistung profitiert, ohne dass ich direkt bezahlt werde oder mein explizites einverständnis gebe, und den finger schneide ich mir übrigens ganz sicher nicht ab, also fordere ich umfassende kontroll- und sanktionssysteme, die diesem treiben der nutznießer einhalt gebieten. die kosten für die systemische verunmöglichung von missbrauch sind aber üblicherweise um faktoren höher, als der tatsächliche schaden selbst.
(nts: mich öfter selbst zitieren)
das leistungsschutzrecht ist natürlich das pure symptom dieser haltung, welches die groteske grimasse sichtbar macht. das ist so unwahrscheinlich, dass man keese dafür fast dankbar sein könnte.
stefan niggemeier spinnt diesen gedanken übrigens gerade schön weiter.
First, connect
In the connection economy, there’s a dividing line between two kinds of projects: those that exist to create connections, and those that don’t.
The internet is a connection machine. Virtually every single popular web project exists to create connections between humans that were difficult or impossible to do before the web.
Godin über das Web als connection machine.
Harmartia
One of the interesting characteristics of Google is that it doesn’t partner well. In the end, as a corporate philosophy, it believes that anything you can do, it can do better.
echovar über google.
School of Startups
I love startups. Not only do they bring the promise of rapid growth and real change, but everything is up for grabs. Organizations that start with a clean sheet of paper have the difficult task of paying the bills, but they also have the luxury of ignoring yesterday in order to focus exclusively on tomorrow.
The Walking Dead
Google, observing the growth of these gesture farms, rightly recognizes that the Web is no longer enough. The Google+ project attempts to graft a living Network entity on to the footprint analyzing machine they already have in place. But does this move Google from the land of the dead to the land of the living? If Google is mostly dead, does it operate more like a zombie? Is it subject to disease and viruses? And if it’s not, is it really alive?
Echovar wieder einmal sehr schön über die Unterschiede zwischen Facebook (ein lebender Organismus bestehend aus lebenden und likenden Suborganismen, der in seinem Charakter als Farm aber auch anfällig für Krankheiten und Seuchen ist) und Google (ein Bot, der die Fussspuren und Exkremente der lebenden Organismen untersucht, der jetzt aber auch leben will, aber weder weiß, was das bedeutet, noch die Probleme sieht, die damit verbunden sind)
ReQuoting pt. 76 (The Hamster Edition)
the business model is hamsters generating less money with each turn of the wheel
ReQuoting pt. 75 (The Dumb and Dumber Edition)
Make no mistake about it, you are dumb. You’re a group of incredibly well-educated dumb people. I was there. We all were there. You’re barely functional. There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups, but the screw-ups, they’re a-coming for ya. It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
Aaron Sorkin via Kottke.
ReQuoting pt. 74 (The To Do Edition)
As you educate yourself about your own talent and ambitions, you graduate from doing a task right to doing the right task. It takes some experience to realize that a lot of work is better left undone. It might be busywork that is performed out of habit, or it might be work that is heading in the wrong direction. Working smart means making sure you are spending your time on jobs that are effective and that actually need to be done.
kk via smarterware
ReQuoting pt. 73 (The Island Economy Edition)
What is the labour encoded in Instagram? It’s easy to see. Every “user” of Instagram is a worker. There are some people who produce photos — this is valuable, it means there is something for people to look it. There are some people who only produce comments or “likes,” the virtual society equivalent of apes picking lice off other apes. This is valuable, because people like recognition and are more likely to produce photos. All workers are also marketers — some highly effective and some not at all. And there’s a general intellect which has been developed, a kind of community expertise and teaching of this expertise to produce photographs which are good at producing the valuable, attractive likes and comments
(wenn man so will der us-blick auf das aal-prinzip, lol)
Dr. More
The industrial system (and the marketing regime) adore the mindset of ‘a little bit more, please’, because it furthers their power. A slightly higher paycheck, a slightly more famous college, an incrementally better car—it’s easy to be seduced by this safe, stepwise progress, and if marketers and bosses can make you feel dissatisfied at every step along the way, even better for them.
Seth Godin über die immer leicht verschobene Erlösung.
Dr. No
No requires just one objection, one defensible reason to avoid change. No has many allies—anyone who fears the future or stands to benefit from the status quo. And no is easy to say, because you actually don’t even need a reason.
Seth Godin über das Nein.
Button Defense Lawyer
That’s not a job anymore. That’s a button.
(that = publishing)
Shirky übers Lesen usw.
ReQuoting pt. 72 (The Persistent Paleontologists Edition)
Memories are becoming hyperlinks to information triggered by keywords and URLs. We are becoming ‘persistent paleontologists’ of our own external memories, as our brains are storing the keywords to get back to those memories and not the full memories themselves.
Amber Case via noosphe.re viavia siggibecker.
Godin's Fort Da
The more often you match patterns, the better you get.
Seth Godin über konzeptionelle mimicry.
ReQuoting pt. 71 (The Vagabonds Edition)
The several disorders and degrees amongst our idle vagabonds:
1. Rufflers (thieving beggars, apprentice uprightment)
2. Uprightmen (leaders of robber bands)
3. Hookers or anglers (thieves who steal through windows with hooks)
4. Rogues (rank-and-file vagabonds)
5. Wild rogues (those born of rogues)
6. Priggers of prancers (horse thieves)
7. Palliards (male and female beggars, traveling in pairs)
8. Fraters (sham proctors, pretending to beg for hospitals, etc.)
9. Abrams (feined lunatics)
10. Fresh-water mariners or whipjacks (beggars pretending shipwreck)
11. Dummerers (sham deaf-mutes)
12. Drunken tinkers (thieves using the trade as a cover)
13. Swadders or peddlers (thieves pretending to be peddlers)
14. Jarkmen (forgers of licenses) or patricoes (hedge priests)
Of Womenkind:
1. Demanders for glimmer or fire (female beggars pretending loss of fire)
2. Bawdy baskets (female peddlars)
3. Morts (prostitutes and thieves)
4. Autem morts (married harlots)
5. Walking morts (unmarried harlots)
6. Doxies (prostitutes who begin with uprightmen)
7. Dells (young girls, incipient doxies)
8. Kinchin morts (female beggar children)
9. Kinchin coes (male beggar children)
eine (auch heute noch nützliche) Typologie der Vagabunden von Lists of Note via BB