February 2012
17 posts
Little sister: Lacey, you had the chance to get to know Jeremy Lin [he went to HS adjacent to mine] AND Mike Posner [Duke '10] and you've failed at both... now you've blown your chance to be Austin Rivers' favorite fan by tweeting "I WANT YOUR BABIES"
Me: I was just being honest.
“The basketball rivalry between Duke and North Carolina has become the greatest...”
– Excerpt from To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever by Will Blythe (via dukebasketballneverstops)
“5,858-5,857: That’s the combined score of the last 75 Duke-North Carolina...”
– ESPN (via chriszee)
“The outrage is tiresome and deeply hypocritical, in all the tiresome ways you’ve...”
– Sasha Frere-Jones
This. A thousand times.
(via blancateli)
I actually shouted “OH YEAH, BECAUSE WOMEN ARE LIKE CARS” at the TV in front of my guests during the Fiat commercial yesterday.
(via chriszee)
I also hate those goddamn Fiat commercials. Get over it, no one will buy any!!!
Love in Asia.. Modern day mail-order brides? →
This show pulls together a panel of foreign-descent wives married to Korean men. They discuss the struggles of language barriers, prejudice, adjusting to Korean culture… the standard trials and tribulations of moving to a foreign country.
I realize the connotations of my word choice - “mail-order bride.” It evokes images of men gleaning websites for their future spouses, much...
“‘“I expected to see a lot of women in St. John suits and expensive...”
– On the private dinner parties that Ms. Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO, throws.
Vilified, glamorized, or overtly feminist… however the media portrays the sharp-shooter female tech execs in the valley, it is what it is. They rock and there’s a lot of them.
parislemon: Fathoming Facebook →
parislemon:
Amidst my snark, there are a few high level things about Facebook’s numbers that I find interesting.
First:
So Facebook had nearly double the profits of Amazon in 2011…
— MG Siegler (@parislemon) February 1, 2012
Second:
Facebook revenue and profit are both about about 1/10th…
January 2012
53 posts
I love Day One app, you should use it →
“Now, doctors are taught that the best choice is often not merely a medical...”
– Help Peter Ubel, post on Dan Ariely’s Blog. Totally getting this book once it’s out and title decided!
imma let you finish, but
Those close to me know how much of a people person I am.
So naturally, one of the most exciting parts of college was getting away from my homogenous Korean upbringing. Late-night discussions on social conservatism, race relations, all with the back-drop of Duke’s social scene which gets an inappropriate share of media attention — all of it helped me grow tremendously. It also fed my...
How prostitution and alcohol make Uber better →
“There’s no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may...”
– “Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice”
Correlation is not causation, but this article was pretty interesting — especially the last section.
(via thatluciegirl)
Reblogging so that I read the entire post at the end of today.
“Within the world of regular public school education, educational professionals...”
– an excerpt from Noah Millman’s post as copied onto AVC. Thought on Apple’s iBook Textbook initiative alongside the Gates Foundation.
With friends in interactive book-publishing and at Teach for America - this post makes me wonder how these large entities (Apple and Gates) will...
Apple Has A Secret Unboxing Room To Test Product... →
parislemon:
This doesn’t surprise me at all. What does surprise me is that no other consumer electronic company puts the care into packaging that Apple does.
By making each and every product a joy to open, Apple sets the tone for the product itself subconsciously in the user’s mind.
Compare this to the companies that put their products in the clear plastic anti-theft packaging. Not only do...
“The taxi’s waiting, it’s honking its horn, time to go to the...”
– The Problem with Reassurance, Seth Godin
don't stop
canttuchthis:
Really cool to see….never stop training.
ew!!!! also… wow.
motivation?
“We must rapidly begin the shift from a “thing-oriented” society to a...”
– happy birthday to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr - I hope today serves as a reminder to us of your unwavering will and human-oriented philosophies.
“If you have chemistry, you only need one other thing - timing. But timing is a...”
– Robin Scherbatsky, How I Met Your Mother (Season 7, Episode 1)
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