"In a way, the best education you can get is just talking with people who are really smart and interested in things, and you can get that for the cost of lunch."
Don’t Go Back to School (via explore-blog)
(via explore-blog)
"Expecting that your first stab at a big project will succeed is not only unrealistic, but a bit lazy."
At the 2013 99U Conference, Stanford Technology Ventures director Tina Seelig, author of inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity, echoes Neil Gaiman’s timeless advice on failure and the creative life.
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You Can Read The New York Times on Google Glass
The New York Times has released a Google Glass app, bringing news reading to the eyewear-based computer. It’s hard to imagine reading in this radically different format, but it could be the future.
Would you read the news every morning on a pair of Google glasses?
"I don’t believe leadership is defined by the size of the team you’ve managed but the size of the challenge you’ve faced."
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Google launches tool to calculate mobile ad effectiveness
A lack of tools to measure the effectiveness of mobile advertising campaigns leaves some marketers hesitant to embrace the channel. Realizing this, Google has launched a calculator that will help businesses measure mobile’s impact.
"Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution."
The Shirky Principle (via explore-blog)
(via explore-blog)
Playing Tetris 'fixes lazy eye'
Canadian doctors say they have found an inventive way to treat lazy eye - playing the Tetris video game.
What Is the Best Way To Post a Twitter Correction?
If you ever need to fix a Twitter mistake, Social Times has uncovered a few tools to publish a highly visible correction generating strikethrough text. Check it out: http://socialtimes.com/correct-tweets-twitter-strikethrough_b124856.
What do you think is the best way to correct a tweet?
Lifehub: One device to rule them all
WOW! It’s a watch, smartphone, headset, key, wallet, speaker and projector. It’s your ideal companion wherever you go. You can say goodbye to your various gadgets, no more syncing, wires or chargers, Lucid Design presents you with one compact device that can replace all those gadgets. You can wear LifeHub on your wrist as a watch, thanks to its memory polymer and bendable OLED screen, or transforms it into a candy bar smartphone when you need it.
You must learn more about it: http://www.tuvie.com/lifehub-one-device-to-rule-them-all/
