"healing. Truly, the body’s ability to heal itself is amazing, and inflammation is what mediates that healing."

Six medical “myths” that aren’t : Respectful Insolence

"It’s difficult for me to evade the conclusion that on an emotional level, conservative nostalgics like Boehner are primarily driven by regret at the loss of social privilege by white men."

Race and Conservative Nostalgia | ThinkProgress

"‘Are we a generation driven by hippie values—minus acid, plus funding and smart phones—that can create sustained change? Or are we just a group of overprivileged, underexperienced, overconfident Bohemian revivalists that are just trying to defer reality?’"

A Twee Grows In Brooklyn | The New York Observer

"venture investing shifted away from funding transformational companies and toward companies that solved incremental problems or even fake problems (e.g., having Kozmo.com messenger Kit-Kats to the office)"

What Happened to the Future? «  Founders Fund

"Khan’s videos are anything but sophisticated. He recorded many of them in a closet at home, his voice sounding muffled on his $25 Logitech headset. But some of his fans believe that Khan has stumbled onto the secret to solving education’s middle-of-the-class mediocrity."

How Khan Academy Is Changing the Rules of Education | Magazine

"t’s hard to discuss a question of bias when observers are using sufficiently different definitions of consensus, deviance and controversy."

…My heart’s in Accra » Overcoming political polarization… but not through facts

"The daily deal is really a financial services product tied to an overpriced advertising vehicle. All of a sudden, because of financial engineering, businesses can “afford” marketing that they couldn’t afford before."

Why I Want Google Offers And The Entire Daily Deals Business To Die

"Computers are really fast; even in the ’80s they were really fast. What that means is there is almost no time between changing your program and seeing the results. That short feedback loop is mentally very powerful."

[How I Failed, Failed, and Finally Succeeded at Learning How to Code via Longreads]

"consider that I was taught to program by a program whose programmer, more than twenty-five years earlier, was taught to program by a program."

[How I Failed, Failed, and Finally Succeeded at Learning How to Code via Longreads]

"blank slates: a sandbox, a bag of LEGOs. Once you show them a little of what the machine can do they’ll clamor for more"

[How I Failed, Failed, and Finally Succeeded at Learning How to Code via Longreads]