a more or less weekly digest of juicy stuff

• how great leaders inspire action, people don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it. highly recommended
• life is all about killing the magic, what is your meaning of life? mine is to kill all the magic and mystery. recommended
• spaghetti tree hoax, in my opinion one of the best april fools' jokes ever pulled
• let me tell you why the last 20% of work takes the same amount of time as the first 80%
• learning from failure is overrated, you might know what won't work, but you still don't know what will work
• what does it mean to love what you do? what you love is very often not something that you feel immediate passion for. it doesn't smack you in the face after 10 minutes and tell you that this is something you're going to do for the rest of your life. that happens only very rarely, or in the movies
• actionable ways to get startup ideas
• the little, big idea, if you're building a rapid prototype, you'll get a graph that looks a little like this. in the first 10% of time you'll probably be able to demonstrate 90% of what the idea will be about. the remaining 90% of the time will be refinement, but it will still only add 10% of the perceived "done-ness" of the idea you're demonstrating
• don't start a company to be your own boss, sorry to disappoint, but working for yourself is never working for yourself
• how to write good blog posts, good writers are really just good copycats, picking and choosing the things they like from a lot of people and blending them together into some sort of personal cocktail
• the parable of the fisherman, hilarious, especially if you know the original
• we don't have time for code reviews
• accidentally turing-complete, some things were not supposed to be turing-complete. this is a collection of such accidents
• security process for open source projects
• final term, a new breed of terminal emulator. interesting project to watch
• illumiroom, a proof-of-concept system to augment the area surrounding a television screen with projected visualizations
• the population density of monsters in loch ness, we would like to thank kate kranck for drawing our attention to this problem, because until she mentioned it we were unaware that monsters were a problem (pdf)
• die bundestagsrede by loriot (german)
• pink floyd live on classical piano by aysedeniz gökçin