You start to lose track of days when you are trying polyphasic sleeping. Remember when I was talking about all of the social norms you’re up against when trying non circadian sleeping habits? Well, they’re a lot more pervasive than I thought.
I think I finally got into a groove, [...]
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Today begins the 3rd attempt in my life to switch to a polyphasic sleeping schedule. I’ve tried twice in the past, unsuccessfully. Both of those were in college.
For a while I just thought that it would be amazingly awesome to sleep just… less. Be insanely more productive and contribute to seventy [...]
Last week, Chris Dixon posted this comment from Caterina Fake (of Flickr fame) that really got me thinking:
“Flickr is a wonderful place to be a photograph“.
Makes a lot of sense. If you were a photograph, where else would you want to be? On Flickr, lots of people would look at you, you’d be [...]
From TechCrunch yesterday: Get Ready For The Firehose. Search Is About To Get Realtime, Real Fast
Oh great. Here we go. My post yesterday about realtime couldn’t have been more timely.
Now that Google and Bing are getting the firehose, it could have a big impact on search results. For the search engines, the firehose is much [...]
Clive Thompson wrote this piece on “How the Real-Time Web Is Leaving Google Behind“. There’s a post in Business Insider and from MSNBC with a special guest experience by Steve Berlin Johnson, called “Twitter And The Real-Time Web Are Ambushing Google”.
I’m going to take a stand and call utter BS on the article and [...]
A few weeks ago I wrote about rating systems for product reviews from an article I read in ACM. Then I saw this article in VentureBeat about what Yelp is doing. The author mentions: “when you’re looking for a fast solution on where to eat, a list full of four-star restaurants makes [...]
If I don’t know you, I seriously doubt I care what you think about a product. Stop trying to make me buy it.
If I do know you, and you’re trying to sell me something because there’s a monetary award attached to it, you’re either in some network marketing MLM scheme… and I’m probably not your [...]
03 Oct
It’s not the future of “education”… it’s the future of “learning”, and yes there’s a difference
Yesterday, I (this is Ash writing) gave a presentation to all of the senior faculty at the IIT Stuart Business School about BettrAt and the future of informal learning.
I think the presentation went pretty well (apart from me making a silly mistake with the domain and thinking that the site was down in a state [...]
Nan Hu, Paul A Pavlou, and Jie Zhang wrote about J shaped distribution curves for product reviews in ACM. I found it interesting because it cuts across behavioral economics, technology, statistics and visual communication.
For some time now, I’ve been interested in how companies can (or already do?!) positively or negatively use user generated content about [...]
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Thanks
This beauty is what I use to commute to BettrAt every day. I just had some work done on it and was taking pictures of it to use for my friend’s bike shop, 312Cycles. As you can see, he did an amazing, amazing job. Thanks, Jonathon!
I hope these pictures speak for themselves. [...]
My friend Matt, a kind hearted soul and fellow bicyclist (consequently waaaay faster than I am), is riding across Lake Michigan to raise funds for a classroom modernization project for Claremont Academy, a K-8 school in the Chicago Public School System.
He made a website, Pledge my Ride, where you can follow along. Help support education [...]
The NatureMill composter is terrible. The waste still smells so much worse than when I put it in… it’s incredibly loud, and the thing is designed so flimsily (Is flimsily a word?). What a sham (also, a shame). I’m returning it promptly and getting my money back.
This is the thanks I [...]
It might be vaguely contrarian to make this argument at a time when a certain realtime startup has just raised more capital to put their valuation over a whopping $1B…zomg. (why do you even need to raise money at that point? what enhancements does the app really even need?)
There are a lot of [...]
