garry’s subposthaven

October 14, 1985

You don’t understand "ordinary people." To you they are "stupid fools" - so you will not tolerate them or treat their foibles with tolerance or patience - but will drive yourself wild (or they will drive you wild) trying to deal with them in an effective way.

Find a way to do your research with as little contact with non-technical people as possible, with one exception, fall madly in love! That is my advice, my friend.

Luckily for Wolfram, there's always building software. Oh Feynman, how is it that you can weave pithiness, brilliance, an d with such skill?

Khoi Vinh (famed design director at the NY Times) is right. iBooks needs to step up its typography. Where's Mike Matas when you need him? Oh right, he left the Apple design team to work on a yet unannounced new project.

The Misconception: People who are losing at the game of life must have done something to deserve it.

The Truth: The benefactors of good fortune often do nothing to earn it, and bad people often get away with their actions without consequences.

A woman goes out to a club wearing stilettos and a miniskirt with no underwear.

She gets pretty drunk and stumbles home in the wrong direction.

She ends up lost in a bad neighborhood. She gets raped.

Is she to blame in some way? Was this her fault? Was she asking for it?

People often say yes to all three in studies asking similar questions after presenting similar scenarios.

It is common in fiction for the bad guys to lose and the good guys to win.

It’s how you would like to see the world- just and fair.

In psychology, the tendency to believe this is how the real world actually works is called the Just-World Fallacy.

Really great slide deck. Love the shout out to my friend Dustin on slide 2.

Wow, I was amazed. Great read over at seriouseats.com -- really detailed instructions on the food science behind my favorite food!

Delicious. They even give you the recipe.