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how we got where we are The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. – Maxims for Revolutionists, George Bernard Shaw (nybooks) on the value of social capital here’s an interesting little nugget re: the broadening inequality… resources enable you to make the necessary investments in your kids that insure access to the necessary networks....

ran across this again. for personal reference. For sale: baby shoes, never worn. – ernest hemingway i had no idea that this had its own wikipedia entry. totally worth wasting a bit of time reading it.

tech related theia - a visual tool for diagnosing hadoop issues a nice quick paper with a use of D3 for presentation. the tail at scale i’ve been recommending this to anyone who will sit still long enough to listen to me on this stuff. there’s some really interesting 2nd order networking effects from this paper. perhaps not of interest to the majority of enterprise folks, but if you’re a member of the “crap is better and moar iterations” school of thought … breathe deeply....

snark done well… ...