"Steve worked at what he loved. He worked really hard. Every day.
That’s incredibly simple, but true.
He was the opposite of absent-minded.
He was never embarrassed about working hard, even if the results were failures. If someone as smart as Steve wasn’t ashamed to admit trying, maybe I didn’t have to be."
If his stellar play on the field wasn't enough to make you love him, nor his excellent American Mustache Institute interview, how about Aaron Rodgers photobombing?
This post shows years worth of stellar photobombing work by Rodgers, though the ridiculous picture below actually comes from a site dedicated to the practice.
Aaron Rodgers: Better QB or Photobomber?
Today in Not Being Bullish Enough:
I have a regular conversation with a hedge fund friend wherein I try to convince him (and me) that, bears that we usually are, we aren’t nearly bullish enough. While Evans-Pritchard is often off the mark, these are more or less my arguments for the bullish side.
World power swings back to America.
The American phoenix is slowly rising again. Within five years or so, the US will be well on its way to self-sufficiency in fuel and energy. Manufacturing will have closed the labour gap with China in a clutch of key industries. The current account might even be in surplus.
via World power swings back to America – Telegraph.
In modern times, it's almost unheard of for a city to run out of steam, to disappear or to become obsolete. It happens to companies all the time. They go out of business, fail, merge, get bought and disappear.
What's the difference?
It's about control and the fringes.
Corporations have CEOs, investors and a disdain for failure. Because they fear failure, they legislate behavior that they believe will avoid it.
Cities, on the other hand, don't regulate what their citizens do all day (they might prohibit certain activities, but generally, market economies permit their citizens to fail all they like).
This failure at the fringes, this deviant behavior, almost always leads to failure. Except when it doesn't.
Ecosystems outlast organisms.
Siri did the best she could trying to help me make sense of the Red Sox mess, but there’s only so much she can wrap her dual-core brain around.
Let’s Ask iPhone’s Siri Some Questions About Baseball and the Boston Red Sox - Grantland
I'm biased horribly given my Microsoft position, but I can't help bfeel reinforced by Gartner's continuing revisions downward to PC sales.
"The group grows so fast, it started as a magic Scott/Ben bean!!"
Peter Richmond remembers Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis - Grantland
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7082720/al-raiders-me
Before I could even ask him a question, he started to read from a copy of that Madden induction speech, because he wanted me to know from the start that it was Madden, the man whose winning percentage beat Lombardi's, who should get all the credit. But within a second or two, he realized this was a stupid thing to do, and he slid the speech over to me, so I could read it myself later.
Then he said, "What I was trying to say in the speech is that time never stops for the great ones. That's what I was trying to say."
"I took your advice*. You said I should come back to Apple after Harvard Business School, and that’s just what I did. But now I’m leaving again.
I rejoined Apple in ‘09 to manage the analytics group for iTunes.
I’ve worked on fun projects like:[redacted]**
I’m starting at Facebook in two weeks, where I’m managing mobile analytics. It’s a great opportunity, but I’ll miss the Apple people/culture tremendously. I’ll also miss the confidence and pride that you are uniquely able to inspire in all of us here.
Thank you so much for everything you’ve taught me and every opportunity you’ve created for me.
With gratitude,
Alex Bain
One more thing: I took your advice on something else, too… I registered to be an organ donor."
"I’m the proud new owner of a reclaimed Army ammunition box. And, it’s full of wine.
For those who have never seen one, an ammunition box is a pretty sturdy piece of hardware. My guess is that it’s designed to contain an explosion should some faulty bullets inside decide to go boom. Or maybe it’s intended to be tough in order to keep bad things out. But this solid metal box with its heavy-duty clasp and convenient carrying handle makes for the best wine box I’ve ever seen.
Yep. Wine box. As in wine-in-a-box wine box.
Some mad genius over at an outfit called The 20 Wines cut a round hole in the end to hold a spout and spray-painted the side with a stencil that reads, “Make Wine – Not War.” Then they rechristened it as a “Chiller Cask.”
