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Lyle Li's College Essay →
While resting comfortably in my air-conditioned bedroom one hot summer night, I received a phone call from my mom. She asked me softly, “Lyle, can you come down and clean up the restaurant?” Slightly annoyed, I put on my sandals and proceeded downstairs. Mixing the hot water with cleaning detergents, I was ready to clean up the restaurant floor. Usually the process was painstakingly...
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Vision Is All About Change →
By SUSANA MARTINEZ-CONDE NY Times: May 17, 2013 YOUR eyes are the sharks of the human body: they never stop moving. In the past minute alone, your eyes made as many as 240 quick movements called “saccades” (French for “jolts”). In your waking hours today, you will very likely make some 200,000 of them, give or take a few thousand. When you sleep, your eyes keep moving — though in different...
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How To Think More (But Not Better): Alain de... →
By: Lisa Levy Los Angeles Review of Books, May 11, 2013 IS THE VERY IDEA of an intelligent self-help book a paradox? It is certainly trying to serve two demanding masters: philosophical speculation and practical action. After all, readers don’t pick up self-help books just to ruminate on life’s dilemmas, but to be guided to solutions. The new series of self-help books published by the London-based...
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The Internet destroyed the middle class →
By: Jaron Lanier Salon, May 12, 2013 Jaron Lanier is a computer science pioneer who has grown gradually disenchanted with the online world since his early days popularizing the idea of virtual reality. “Lanier is often described as ‘visionary,’ ” Jennifer Kahn wrote in a 2011 New Yorker profile, “a word that manages to convey both a capacity for mercurial insight and a lack of practical job...
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“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts,...”
– Charles Bukowski
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Jason Kottke on the Nature of Blogs and Writing... →
By: Jason Kottke Wired, April 16, 2013 It all started with the World Book Encyclopedia. The complete set we had on the bottom shelf of the family bookcase was my first Internet. I still remember sitting on the sofa with my dad reading about the theory of relativity when I was 8. Fast-forward to my early twenties. I dropped out of grad school after a semester because I’d fallen in love. My dad...
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