reinventnow

Paul Graham succinctly describes what I’ve thought all along… it doesn’t matter where you go to college:
Practically everyone thinks that someone who went to MIT or Harvard or Stanford must be smart. Even people who hate you for it believe it.
But when you think about what it means to have gone to an elite college, […]

On Saturday morning, I attended a world café gathering in Berkeley. I hadn’t been in such a large group of passionate, intelligent and warm people in a long time. They were incredibly welcoming of me even though I was a “newbie” to the whole process.
I had never been part of a world cafe […]

From “engineer” and “artist” with an emphasis on the french sensibilities of being-in-development-as-artist… engiartiste. Are you one?
“Renaissance man” is way too 20th century. And *way* too old world patriarchy.

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Over the weekend, Ami sent out an email to the thousands and thousands of people connected through idealist.org.  They want to catalyze change from the ground up and work locally to find leaders to help foster this change.
And on the week of February 5-11, join us, wherever you are, to help launch this initiative with […]

I still pay attention to various software architecture discussions out there.  I subscribe to the REST-discuss list where people debate and share stories about Representation State Transfer, an architectural style initially defined by Roy Fielding many years ago. Below is a very beautiful little paragraph from a discussion about resources, representations and the web.
There are […]