Drake Rubicon recommended Smart Phones, Dumb Companies from monbiot.com:

If you are too well connected, you stop thinking.

Drake Rubicon recommended Procrastination Is Not Laziness from thoughtcatalog.com:

So that’s my simple, humble dream in life: to list a few things I’d like to get done and go ahead and do them. I could take over the world, if I could only learn to do that.

Drake Rubicon recommended Strong Opinions @marksbirch from birch.co:

Our schools are not failing students because they are too hard.  They fail because few schools expect anything from their students and shy away from challenging their minds.  We can ill afford to expect so little of our youth if we are to meet the enormous challenges faced over the next generation is shifting from an industrial economy to an information based economy.  If students in other countries can succeed in mathematics, do we really think our students are less capable?  If so, that is truly a sad sentiment and an admission of national epic failure.

Drake Rubicon recommended Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises: How darkness took over our culture. from slate.com:

Dark, by contrast, is an attitude, a mood, a view of the world and a fashion statement. It hints at things that are better left unseen, at subterranean things, nefarious anti-social things, underbellies and the underground, things proper society wishes to avoid. Once upon a time a little edge was fine, but one didn’t want to be, seem, or feel too dark. But over the past several years we can’t seem to go dark enough. Now dark doesn’t just sell, it defines the mainstream.

Drake Rubicon recommended The Uncannily Accurate Depiction of the Meth Trade in “Breaking Bad” from newyorker.com:

the more ghoulish and extreme the show becomes, the more it seems to traffic not in realism but in horror, and the more accurately it captures the reality

Drake Rubicon recommended Mustafa's Space Drive: An Egyptian Student's Quantum Physics Invention from fastcompany.com:

Remember the name, because you might see it again: Aisha Mustafa, a 19-year-old Egyptian physics student, patented a new type of propulsion system for spacecraft that uses cutting edge quantum physics instead of thrusters.

Drake Rubicon recommended Innovations in Higher Education? Hah! from chronicle.com:

Q. How many academics does it take to change a light bulb? A. Change? Change? Who said anything about CHANGE?

Drake Rubicon recommended The Chronicle Review from chronicle.com:

I've written toward a master's degree in cognitive psychology, a Ph.D. in sociology, and a handful of postgraduate credits in international diplomacy. I've worked on bachelor's degrees in hospitality, business administration, and accounting. I've written for courses in history, cinema, labor relations, pharmacology, theology, sports management, maritime security, airline services, sustainability, municipal budgeting, marketing, philosophy, ethics, Eastern religion, postmodern architecture, anthropology, literature, and public administration. I've attended three dozen online universities. I've […]

Drake Rubicon recommended What Nobody Tells Beginners—Ira Glass on Storytelling from numerocinqmagazine.com:

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.

Drake Rubicon recommended DJ Richie Hawtin: "Kreativität muss so schnell sein dürfen, wie sie will" from zeit.de:

Andy Warhol hat Marilyn Monroes Bild genommen und Siebdrucke davon gemacht. Das muss mit Musik passieren! In 50 Jahren kann sich Kreativität hoffentlich so schnell fortbewegen, wie sie will.

Drake Rubicon recommended Google CEO Schmidt: "People Aren't Ready for the Technology Revolution" from readwriteweb.com:

"There was 5 exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003," Schmidt said, "but that much information is now created every 2 days, and the pace is increasing...

Drake Rubicon recommended What Google Is | TechCrunch from techcrunch.com:

What binds all the different Google efforts together then, is not an overarching plan, but an underlying technology platform. This may not form a coherent vision, but great things will continue to come from it.

Drake Rubicon recommended Europe's plan for music licensing, and the artists that feel betrayed from theverge.com:

You stole our hopes. You have broken your promises and encourage the management of collecting societies to keep the fruits of our creativity.

Drake Rubicon recommended When Art, Apple and the Secret Service Collide: ‘People Staring at Computers’ from wired.com:

They rang the doorbell a few times. It woke me up, and I tried to ignore it. There were always kids playing with the doorbells in our apartment building. But the kids don’t normally shout, “this is the Secret Service, open the door,” so I took that as my cue to get out of bed.

Drake Rubicon recommended Agrippa code from crackingagrippa.net:

Once run, the program displays Gibson’s poem just once, and encrypts itself. Never to be seen again