Compendium of Wondrous Links vol II
- 60 hour work week is not a badge of honour. I talked about something similar here some time ago.
- Social Aspects of Success and Failure in Cultural Markets. Follow up about the Flappy Bird issue, and about the unpredictability of success.
- About retaining team members, which is not an aspect of companies that is not as discussed as recruiting.
- Some interesting Unix tricks and recipes, in a very simple txt format.
- Very graphic display on how conditional probability works.
- Levels of excellence. Interesting view on learning. It is fascinating how sometimes it truly seem like “a level”, a real qualitative change.
- You Are Not So Smart blog is amazing. Here is just a taste of it (The Benjamin Franklin effect), but all the articles are great. It includes the following amazing quote “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be” by Kurt Vonnegut
- A brilliant car insurance turkish commercial, presenting a real-file Street Fighter bonus phase
- The Pixel Density Race and Its Technical Merits. We are probably approaching the limits of what make sense in terms of pixel density.
- And two nice graphs from Twitter: