Jan Dillmann recommended Fette Krüppel und Negersager from arschhaarzopf.wordpress.com:

Zahlreiche Zeitgenossen, seien es Oberbekleidungs-Protestierer, Brustamputations-Empörer oder Negersager-Ausflipper, gehen von einer vollständig falschen Grundannahme aus. Sie glauben tatsächlich, dass es die Aufgabe der restlichen Menschheit sei, sich ihre Befindlichkeiten zu eigen zu machen. Für diese Menschen habe ich eine sehr, sehr schlechte Nachricht: Es ist nicht mein Job, der Erwartungshaltung anderer zu entsprechen. Und ich mache ihre Probleme nicht automatisch zu meinen.

Jan Dillmann recommended McDonald’s Theory from medium.com:

I use a trick with co-workers when we’re trying to decide where to eat for lunch and no one has any ideas. I recommend McDonald’s. An interesting thing happens. Everyone unanimously agrees that we can’t possibly go to McDonald’s, and better lunch suggestions emerge. Magic!

Jan Dillmann recommended Coding, Fast and Slow: Developers and the Psychology of Overconfidence from blog.hut8labs.com:

Unfortunately, over the course of my career, I’ve learned something pretty hard: I’m always that wrong. Actually, I’ve learned something even better: we’re all that wrong.

Jan Dillmann recommended Brüderle-Debatte und Sexismus from theeuropean.de:

Welche Verantwortung übernehmen wir als Frauen? Verharren in der Opfer-Pose ist mir zu wenig. Mit welcher Begründung soll man uns noch in die Chefetagen vorlassen, wenn wir es nicht einmal schaffen, alleine an einer Bar ohne Sexismus-Polizei zu bestehen?

Jan Dillmann recommended Die CCC/29C3-Peinlichkeit Britta Schinzel from danisch.de:

Gender ist nicht Wissenschaft, Gender ist die Rhetorik des Schwindels.

Jan Dillmann recommended Gregory’s iPhone Contract | Janell Burley Hofmann from janellburleyhofmann.com:

Merry Christmas!  You are now the proud owner of an iPhone.  Hot Damn!  You are a good & responsible 13 year old boy and you deserve this gift.  But with the acceptance of this present comes rules and regulations.  Please read through the following contract.  I hope that you understand it is my job to raise you into a well rounded, healthy young man that can function in the world and coexist with technology, not be ruled by it.  Failure to comply with the following list will result in termination of your iPhone ownership.

Jan Dillmann recommended About Facebook, Instagram and hypocrisy from martinweigert.com:

That’s pure hypocrisy. Being an advocate for a less strict copyright law means being able to get more freedom in using the creative work of others, but it also means giving more of your own creative work to the society (which includes commercial parties as well, if you like it or not). If the hotel thinks your Instagram shot is beautiful, why shouldn’t it be allowed to use it? What do you lose? Why aren’t you proud instead?

Jan Dillmann recommended Instagram Isn’t a Public Utility from theindustry.cc:

Social media is not a public utility. Using Instagram is not a right. When you begin using these services, you enter a legally binding contact with them, defined in the Terms of Service. Clicking “I agree” without reading that document is insanely irresponsible — you could be selling your soul without even realizing it. In the cases of Facebook and Instagram, you already have.

Jan Dillmann recommended How to Live Without Irony from opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com:

What would it take to overcome the cultural pull of irony? Moving away from the ironic involves saying what you mean, meaning what you say and considering seriousness and forthrightness as expressive possibilities, despite the inherent risks. It means undertaking the cultivation of sincerity, humility and self-effacement, and demoting the frivolous and the kitschy on our collective scale of values. It might also consist of an honest self-inventory.

Jan Dillmann recommended DVICE: Ethiopian kids hack OLPCs in 5 months with zero instruction from dvice.com:

What happens if you give a thousand Motorola Zoom tablet PCs to Ethiopian kids who have never even seen a printed word? Within five months, they'll start teaching themselves English while circumventing the security on your OS to customize settings and activate disabled hardware. Whoa.

Jan Dillmann recommended Small from blog.alexmaccaw.com:

It turns out that this feeling is a well documented phenomena dubbed the Overview effect. When a person gazes upon Earth from outer space, they have a profound sense of perspective, a realization of fragility, that humanity and all life as we know it is completely dependent on a single planet and its thin atmosphere.

Jan Dillmann recommended Do you really want to be making this much money when you're 50? from yosefk.com:

Programming is money for nothing. Programming is very easy to enter and extremely hard to quit. What would you do instead?

Jan Dillmann recommended Gunkls Tip des Tages (Archiv) from gunkl.at:

Ich finde es hochgradig seltsam, daß Einwegfeuerzeuge mit vier Warnhinweisen versehen in den Handel kommen. Früher - um an meine gestrige Anmerkung anzuschließen - wurde als bekannt vorausgesetzt, daß Feuerzeuge Feuer machen, und es wäre auch niemand ernsthaft auf die Idee gekommen, den Hersteller eines Feuerzeuges zu verklagen, weil ein Feuerzeug Feuer macht, und Feuer brennt. Diese Selbstentmündigung, die hier betrieben wird, in der der Dümmste Recht bekommt, nur, weil er eben zum dumm ist, in der Welt verlustfrei zu operieren, die Einladung zur Erkenntnisverweigerung, dieser Geist, i[…]

Jan Dillmann recommended Laser Pointer from what-if.xkcd.com:

A 1-watt laser is an extremely dangerous thing. It’s not just powerful enough to blind you—it’s capable of burning skin and setting things on fire. Obviously, they’re not legal for consumer purchase in the US. Just kidding! You can pick one up for $300

Jan Dillmann recommended The Germans have a word for it – and it's a very long one from guardian.co.uk:

Schifffahrt, journey on a ship, which looks so wrong but isn't, and seeerfahren, skilled at navigating, which is what you'll need to be on a Schifffahrt, or else you might bump into a Seeelephant or, if you're very unlucky a Schneeeule