Consciousness, inner voices and what about deaf people?

On the “self awareness being tied to language” note, I found this quote from Helen Keller interesting: “Before my teacher came to me, I did not know that I am. I lived in a world that was a no-world. I

Consciousness, inner voices and what about deaf people?

On the “self awareness being tied to language” note, I found this quote from Helen Keller interesting: “Before my teacher came to me, I did not know that I am. I lived in a world that was a no-world. I

Remote engineering, teams, management, work via @stevesi

Also via Steve Sinofsky, this package of posts merits some attention. http://blog.learningbyshipping.com/2014/12/30/why-remote-engineering-is-so-difficult/ http://paulgraham.com/95.html http://ma.tt/2014/12/how-paul-graham-is-wrong/ Part of why it requires this attention is the whole Code As Cards approach we have been using to design and build and ship Knotable with

Remote engineering, teams, management, work via @stevesi

Also via Steve Sinofsky, this package of posts merits some attention. http://blog.learningbyshipping.com/2014/12/30/why-remote-engineering-is-so-difficult/ http://paulgraham.com/95.html http://ma.tt/2014/12/how-paul-graham-is-wrong/ Part of why it requires this attention is the whole Code As Cards approach we have been using to design and build and ship Knotable with

Digital literacy

If computing is like writing, then what is the equivalent of literacy for the digital age? A thousand years ago, writing was a technology enjoyed by an elite few: rulers, clerics, scribes. This technology offered the power to store information

Digital literacy

If computing is like writing, then what is the equivalent of literacy for the digital age? A thousand years ago, writing was a technology enjoyed by an elite few: rulers, clerics, scribes. This technology offered the power to store information

Tools, the means of production via @stevesi

Here’s a great snippet via the legendary toolsmaker Steve Sinofsky of Microsoft software fame: From these tweets It’s true and it has an origin in the far weightier philosopher pre-Kuhn who makes this argument: Marx. The superstructure of culture and

Tools, the means of production via @stevesi

Here’s a great snippet via the legendary toolsmaker Steve Sinofsky of Microsoft software fame: From these tweets It’s true and it has an origin in the far weightier philosopher pre-Kuhn who makes this argument: Marx. The superstructure of culture and

Ideas from a week away

I’ve been away from home for about a week well 12 days now and here are some things I’ve been thinking about and planning to read. I’ll check back in a year and see how many of these new-year’s-eve ideas

Ideas from a week away

I’ve been away from home for about a week well 12 days now and here are some things I’ve been thinking about and planning to read. I’ll check back in a year and see how many of these new-year’s-eve ideas

Food and health dashboard.

There should be one of these. Here is mine.   Beef Dangerous (overview, famous study, paper) Processed meat (sausage, bacon) Dangerous (paper MSG Fine, debunked Gluten Fine (overview) Unsaturated fats (plant) Fine Saturated fats Not good (overview) Trans fats Super

Food and health dashboard.

There should be one of these. Here is mine.   Beef Dangerous (overview, famous study, paper) Processed meat (sausage, bacon) Dangerous (paper MSG Fine, debunked Gluten Fine (overview) Unsaturated fats (plant) Fine Saturated fats Not good (overview) Trans fats Super

Best wishes and the biggest thing I made this year

Friends, Our work of the last two years is ready for the world. I hope you will use it to pull people and ideas together to achieve more in 2015. Cheers – Amol Big Thanks and Warm Wishes It’s been

Best wishes and the biggest thing I made this year

Friends, Our work of the last two years is ready for the world. I hope you will use it to pull people and ideas together to achieve more in 2015. Cheers – Amol Big Thanks and Warm Wishes It’s been

The size of financial markets

People usually lose all sense for size in financial news discussions. So many different numbers on different scales are thrown around. The entire Russian stock market is apparently worth about $330bn now. Down 70%. Google is worth that. Apple is

The size of financial markets

People usually lose all sense for size in financial news discussions. So many different numbers on different scales are thrown around. The entire Russian stock market is apparently worth about $330bn now. Down 70%. Google is worth that. Apple is

Discovery: longpress in iOS

Product nerds, did you know about this? In Apple’s iOS Mail.app you can longpress. In a message view hold the compose button. Instead of a new message you get…a menu including Drafts you have pending. Wow! Longpress the archive button

Discovery: longpress in iOS

Product nerds, did you know about this? In Apple’s iOS Mail.app you can longpress. In a message view hold the compose button. Instead of a new message you get…a menu including Drafts you have pending. Wow! Longpress the archive button

On the shortest day in the North

How does the day vary? LA – 9h 56m 651am sunrise to 447pm sunset SF – 9h 33m 721am to 454pm NYC – 9h 15m 716am to 431pm Melbourne – 14h 47m 555am to 842pm Amol Sarva, Ph.D. // 530-727-8277

On the shortest day in the North

How does the day vary? LA – 9h 56m 651am sunrise to 447pm sunset SF – 9h 33m 721am to 454pm NYC – 9h 15m 716am to 431pm Melbourne – 14h 47m 555am to 842pm Amol Sarva, Ph.D. // 530-727-8277