• The Guardian: Tom Waits: 'I look like hell but I'm going to see where it gets me'
    Great interview with Tom Waits at the Washoe House. He laments digitization: "They have removed the struggle to find anything. And therefore there is no genuine sense of discovery. Struggle is the first thing we know getting along the birth canal, out in the world. It's pretty basic. Book store owners and record store owners used to be oracles, in that way; you'd go in this dusty old place and they might point you toward something that would change your life. All that's gone."
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Steve Jobs Quote

Just to add to the flood of appreciation for Steve Jobs that's pouring out online, this quote of his has always stuck with me:
"Expose yourself to the best things humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you are doing." — Steve Jobs
It's a simple statement but it says a lot about learning from others, looking outside your immediate domain, and even looking back in time. Coming from Jobs it's a nice mashup of technology and liberal arts that has always appealed to me. I can see shades of this quote in many things he built, and I think it was this sort of sample/remix approach that helped Jobs add new, best things to emulate.
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  • Futility Closet: Home Made
    "Sears used to sell houses by mail." Someone please put old catalog pictures side by side with modern pictures of those houses still in use.
  • rc3.org - Managing my mistrust of Facebook
    "From now on, when I want to visit Facebook, I’ll be using the private browser setting in whatever browser I’m using." This is my new strategy too. What a hassle.
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