“ In 2005 the median-income family was spending substantially less of its income on clothing, appliances and food - even after including meals out - than families did in 1972. If it seems as though your closets have filled up with trinkets and baubles, that’s partly because that stuff got a lot cheaper relative to incomes. Where the spending really grew was in the big fixed costs, including mortgages, health care, child care and college tuition.
How we’re going to save more
juicy tidbits
by john nunemaker
stuff I find funny, interesting or thought provoking
“ But more important than preserving an edge negotiating money is somehow documenting how hard it is to be true to yourself, how hard it is to be at risk all the time. It’s a tradeoff. Sometimes my life looks glamorous. Sometimes it doesn’t. It’s all the same life though.
How to deal with getting fired (from Yahoo)
This video is unreal and very funny, especially the last switch.
Derren Brown - Person Swap
“ Perhaps it’s just frustration speaking here, but when Apple ties my hands behind my back and lets users punch me publicly in the face without allowing me to at least respond back, it’s hard to get excited about building an app.
Maniacal Rage: Reading post
“ The iPhone developed the way a lot of cool things do: with a false start. A few years ago Jobs noticed how many development dollars were being spent…on tablet PCs…so he had Apple engineers noodle around with a tablet PC. When they showed him the touchscreen they came up with, he got excited. So excited, he forgot all about tablet computers.
“ When you get right down to it, the device doesn’t even have that many new features—it’s not like Jobs invented voicemail, or text messaging, or conference calling, or mobile web browsing. He just noticed that they were broken.
“ You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller
“ We do a lot more reading than writing. Somewhere between 80/20 or 90/10 ratio of read/write. “Only a few people who like to caption pictures of kittens on the internet - but a whole lot of people who like to look at them.
Cal Henderson (Flickr) - Scalable Web Architectures: Common Patterns and Approaches
“ In a single second Flickr serves 40,000 photos, 100,000 cache operations, 130,000 database queries.
Um…wow! Now that is some scaling. Cal Henderson (Flickr) - Scalable Web Architectures: Common Patterns and Approaches
“ They’re probably out with strippers.
Eli, on why the makers of Flight Control haven’t responded to my idea yet.
“ Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by ignorance.
Handling Things
