The amazing story of Kim Jong-Il’s sushi chef. Such a great feature, and some truly insane tales.
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How to do what you love. →
So much good stuff in here from Y Combinator’s Paul Graham, including this section.
Prestige is especially dangerous to the ambitious. If you want to make ambitious people waste their time on errands, the way to do it is to bait the hook with prestige. That’s the recipe for getting people to give talks, write forewords, serve on committees, be department heads, and so on. It might be a good rule simply to avoid any prestigious task. If it didn’t suck, they wouldn’t have had to make it prestigious.
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An interview with Kanye West →
I think that’s a responsibility that I have, to push possibilities, to show people: “This is the level that things could be at.” So when you get something that has the name Kanye West on it, it’s supposed to be pushing the furthest possibilities. I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers. I understand culture. I am the nucleus.
Kanye West, ladies and gentlemen.
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So. Cool.
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Trying, and Failing, to Host an Alcohol-Free Party for Teenagers →
This is total insanity.
I thought I had discovered the secrets to preventing teen substance abuse at parties — until two uniformed police officers rang my doorbell.
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Web Developer Money →
Great piece by James Somers.
In today’s world, web developers have it all: money, perks, freedom, respect. But is there value in what we do?
The bit he arrives at about “there is as much value as people are willing to pay” sits well with me. But as I consider what I’ll be doing with myself, I worry less about not going out to “build something” and being a coder or developer because I do think there is amazingly little value in a lot of that industry.
I do wonder when it’ll all come down.
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My addiction to covers continues.
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Building.
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Seems reasonable.
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The Unlikely Evolution Of The @ Symbol →
“The @ symbol is pretty well associated with digital identity now[…]”
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Many more interesting maps if you click through.
