RafaelFajardo

Category: words

  • At MIT, his office in Building 20 was crammed with books, most overdue from the college library. Dr. Lettvin claimed he did not return them because the library would send him the students who wanted those books, and he would interview them as potential assistants. Gaming the library | The Harvard Library Innovation Laboratory (via…

  • alecshao: Jorge Mendez Blake – El Castillo (The Castle), 2008

  • dot-ed: Fixed Mindset vs. Growth Mindset A growth mindset will help you achieve more, according to Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck. Challenges: embrace them Obstacles: persist in the face of setbacks Effort: see it as the path to mastery Criticism: learn from them Success of others: find lessons and inspiration in others’ success

  • BLANK: I don’t know what the fix is. Thank God for federal government grants, and the NIH, and Musk, and Google. ‘The Golden Age of Silicon Valley Is Over, and We’re Dancing on its Grave’ – Derek Thompson – Business – The Atlantic

  • The Commencement Address That Won’t Be Given

    robertreich: Members of the Class of 2012, As a former secretary of labor and current professor, I feel I owe it to you to tell you the truth about the pieces of parchment you’re picking up today. You’re f*cked. Well, not exactly. But you won’t have it easy. First, you’re going to have a hell…

  • Introducing Inkling Habitat The world’s first scalable publishing environment for interactive content Inkling Habitat – Scalable digital publishing for professionals

  • Inkling Habitat lets publishers create interactive e-books with HD video, interactive features and 3D content in a free, cloud-based program. E-books can immediately be published to iPad and the Web in HTML5, with updates pushed to both platforms at once. (Well, iPad is available now and Web publishing will be added later this year.) Multiple…

  • 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…

  • DOUBLEFUCKINGSPACE

    barthel: I was raised to put two spaces after a goddamn period. My dad, who made his bones typing on typewriters and all, taught me to, and he’s an English professor, so I listened to him. It’s only in the last year that I’ve broken myself of the habit, and honestly, I’m not really happy…

  • kateoplis: “After years of speculation, estimates and projections, the Census Bureau has made it official: White births are no longer a majority in the United States.  Non-Hispanic whites accounted for 49.6 percent of all births in the 12-month period that ended last July, according to Census Bureau data made public on Thursday, while minorities — including Hispanics,…