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Being "always on" is being always off, to something.

Disconnecting Distraction
Topic: Business 2:58 pm EDT, May 18, 2008

Paul Graham:

Procrastination feeds on distractions. Most people find it uncomfortable just to sit and do nothing; you avoid work by doing something else.

So one way to beat procrastination is to starve it of distractions. But that's not as straightforward as it sounds, because there are people working hard to distract you. Distraction is not a static obstacle that you avoid like you might avoid a rock in the road. Distraction seeks you out.

Disconnecting Distraction


100 Essential Jazz Albums
Topic: Arts 6:41 am EDT, May 16, 2008

David Remnick:

While finishing “Bird-Watcher,” a Profile of the jazz broadcaster and expert Phil Schaap, I thought it might be useful to compile a list of a hundred essential jazz albums, more as a guide for the uninitiated than as a source of quarrelling for the collector.

100 Essential Jazz Albums


Getting Started with awk
Topic: Technology 6:41 am EDT, May 16, 2008

This qref is written for a semi-knowledgable UNIX user who has just come up against a problem and has been advised to use awk to solve it. Perhaps one of the examples can be quickly modified for immediate use.

Getting Started with awk


Research Leads to Self-Improving Chips with Speed ‘Warping’
Topic: High Tech Developments 6:41 am EDT, May 16, 2008

Computer science research results in new technology that can outperform standard microprocessors up to 1,000 times.

Research Leads to Self-Improving Chips with Speed ‘Warping’


Steering Between Unsocial Networks and Social Spam
Topic: High Tech Developments 6:41 am EDT, May 16, 2008

Let’s check our common-sense understanding of the word social. It’s mostly about people talking to one another. Sometimes it’s about dancing, bowling or doing other stuff with people.

This gets lost in the meaning-destroying repetition of the word by a bunch of Internet companies.

Steering Between Unsocial Networks and Social Spam


This American Life 355: The Giant Pool of Money
Topic: Home and Garden 6:41 am EDT, May 16, 2008

A special program about the housing crisis produced in a special collaboration with NPR news. We explain it all to you. What does the housing crisis have to do with the turmoil on Wall street? Why did banks make half-million dollar loans to people without jobs or income? And why is everyone talking so much about the 1930s? It all comes back to the Giant Pool of Money.

This American Life 355: The Giant Pool of Money


Structured Procrastination
Topic: Business 6:41 am EDT, May 16, 2008

I was sure I'd recommended this before ...

I have been intending to write this essay for months. Why am I finally doing it? Because I finally found some uncommitted time? Wrong. I have papers to grade, textbook orders to fill out, an NSF proposal to referee, dissertation drafts to read. I am working on this essay as a way of not doing all of those things. This is the essence of what I call structured procrastination, an amazing strategy I have discovered that converts procrastinators into effective human beings, respected and admired for all that they can accomplish and the good use they make of time.

Structured Procrastination


Future Graphics Architectures
Topic: High Tech Developments 6:41 am EDT, May 16, 2008

GPUs continue to evolve rapidly, but toward what?

Future Graphics Architectures


Liebling’s War
Topic: Arts 6:41 am EDT, May 16, 2008

The idea that journalism is not “literature” is such a deeply entrenched prejudice that even writers and editors who have spent their lives in journalism and have achieved literary distinction as journalists sometimes speak as if what they write and edit is not literature. This prejudice can be viewed as a cultural successor to the one that despised novels—a prejudice current in Jane Austen’s lifetime and one she scoffs at in both her letters and her novels.

Reading almost any twenty consecutive pages of A. J. Liebling’s Second World War reportage offers an excellent demonstration of just how specious the distinction between journalism and literature can be, but it is a distinction that has helped to prevent Liebling from being recognized as the major American writer he is.

Liebling’s War


A 30,000-Volume Window on the World
Topic: Home and Garden 6:41 am EDT, May 16, 2008

FOR the last seven years, I’ve lived in an old stone presbytery in France, south of the Loire Valley, in a village of fewer than 10 houses. I chose the place because next to the 15th-century house itself was a barn, partly torn down centuries ago, large enough to accommodate my library of some 30,000 books, assembled over six itinerant decades. I knew that once the books found their place, I would find mine.

A 30,000-Volume Window on the World


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