Category: Found Online

We’re rapidly approaching a time when mobile devices will achieve omnipresent access to our location, and if that’s the case, then: “Location is like PageRank for the real world.” – Benedict Evans Source: A16z Podcast: Location, Location, Location — and Mobile | Andreessen Horowitz

The sex appeal of Silicon valley, in other words, comes largely from the fact that it is now the culture of “coding” that helps constitute the core of capitalism as an economic and managerial practice, as a cultural system, and as a way of life. The nerds’ visions of computational mastery are now also the…

“Academic research is kind of like a relay race. It’s your duty, in the concluding paragraph, to set the next runner up to take the baton from where you left off.” – JDR to GRR, 5/5/2015

While a strong trend in the culinary arts has been to let individual, natural ingredients shine through, one food has quietly come… Source: Why Is the Merger Called Mayonnaise Loved—& Hated—so Deeply? – Facts So Romantic – Nautilus

The key in making great and growable systems is much more to design how its modules communicate rather than what their internal properties and behaviors should be. Think of the internet – to live, it (a) has to allow many different kinds of ideas and realizations that are beyond any single standard and (b) to…