October 2009
5 posts
“Many people ask my what Neoteny (my company’s name) means. It means the...”
– i never knew what Neoteny meant. Now I do. It’s an excellent word and I agree with Joi about the increasing importance of it. I’m going to see him today a few times and will tell him so myself.
The Meaning of Neoteny - Joi Ito’s Web
(via fred-wilson)
Malcolm Gladwell: Football, dog fighting, and... →
mattlehrer:
Research released the findings of an N.F.L.-funded phone survey of just over a thousand randomly selected retired N.F.L. players—all of whom had played in the league for at least three seasons. Self-reported studies are notoriously unreliable instruments, but, even so, the results were alarming. Of those players who were older than fifty, 6.1 per cent reported that they had received...
“This is an odd award. You’d expect it to come later in Obama’s presidency and...”
– Josh Marshall (via langer)
“If you’re never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any...”
– Julia Sorel
I am frequently surprised at the average person’s lack of willingness to try to accomplish something potentially a little beyond their abilities.