Kartik Agaram

Strange Maps: The Shotgun Tracts of the Lower Mississippi - http://bigthink.com/ideas...

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Kartik Agaram

The Artist's Secret - http://dilbert.com/blog...

9 hours ago from Google Reader - Comment - Like

"All art comes from abnormal brains. So if you create art that satisfies your own tastes, you have created for a market of exactly one abnormal person." - Kartik Agaram

Kartik Agaram

Google Chrome Is The New “Down For Everyone Or Just Me” - http://techcrunch.com/2010...

Tuesday from Google Reader - Comment - Like

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Myths of the Arctic - http://www.foreignpolicy.com/article...

Tuesday from Google Reader - Comment - Like

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Animal, Vegetal, Municipal: South Sudan’s Zoomorphic Cities - http://bigthink.com/ideas...

Monday from Google Reader - Comment - Like

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Erlang doesn't need a build system - http://prog21.dadgum.com/49...

August 28 from Google Reader - Comment - Like

Kartik Agaram

Two tragic animal-to-human studies - http://www.johndcook.com/blog...

August 26 from Google Reader - Comment - Like

"Drugs that would be safe and effective in humans are sometimes discarded because they were toxic in animals. Penicillin might easily have been discarded because it sickens rabbits and guinea pigs in large or in oral doses." - Kartik Agaram

Kartik Agaram

Re: Google Reader is Behind the Times – Here is What They Can Do to Fix That - http://staynalive.disqus.com/google_...

August 26 from Disqus - Comment - Like

"I built this as an example of streamlined feedreader UI: http://readwarp.com My rationale for the design: http://news.ycombinator.com/item... Probably too simple, but I still find myself using it everyday." - Kartik Agaram

Kartik Agaram

Little Geeks on the Prairie - http://www.cringely.com/2010...

August 26 from Google Reader - Comment - Like

Return of the apprenticeship: "why couldn’t we set up an office close to the University, hire students, train them and have the students do the same work that was being sent offshore? We could price the work about the same or a little cheaper, students would be in the same time zone and the company could hire the students when they graduate." - Kartik Agaram

Kartik Agaram

Being Excellent at Anything - http://blogs.hbr.org/cs...

August 25 from Google Reader - Comment - Like

"Will and discipline are wildly overrated. As the researcher Roy Baumeister has found, none of us have very much of it. The best way to insure you'll take on difficult tasks is to ritualize them — build specific, inviolable times at which you do them, so that over time you do them without having to squander energy thinking about them." - Kartik Agaram

Kartik Agaram

SWAT0 - The Social Web Acid Test - http://federatedsocialweb.net/wiki...

August 25 from Google Reader - Comment - Like

Kartik Agaram

Altoids’ Branded Facebook App Lets Users “Tune Out” Some Friends - http://www.insidefacebook.com/2010...

August 25 from Google Reader - Comment - Like

Kartik Agaram

Ultraviolet light reveals how ancient Greek statues really looked - http://io9.com/5616498...

August 20 from Google Reader - Comment - Like

And I admired the classics for their elegant white marble. My mind is blown. Time has definitely improved ancient greek sculpture. - Kartik Agaram

Kartik Agaram

Loving @thomask's tips on angel investing: http://www.quora.com/What-do...

August 20 from Twitter - Comment - Like

Kartik Agaram

Quora Marketing - Venture Hacks - http://venturehacks.com/article...

August 19 from Google Reader - Comment - Like

Nivi on Quora: "Don’t try to load a model of the site in your head — it’s too complicated and they’re constantly redesigning it. Just expect things to be there when you need them. And expect that you can do a lot with each piece of data on the site (suggest revisions, revise it, revert it, vote on it, eat it, thank the author…)." - Kartik Agaram

Kartik Agaram

A day in the life of the president of the US - http://www.vanityfair.com/politic...

August 19 from Google Reader - Comment - Like

From the article: "Congress sometimes seems nearly incapable of deliberative, sentient action. It’s more accurate to see the institution simply as a thick membrane that must be negotiated by interest groups of various kinds. Some of those groups’ wishes—a crucial comma here, a tiny clause there—will make it all the way through the membrane, protected by special-interest money. Some of the wishes won’t." - Kartik Agaram

Kartik Agaram

Robert L. Chapman: Mighty Market Mencken - http://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2010...

August 19 from Google Reader - Comment - Like

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Advertising vs Spam - http://akkartik.name/blog...

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Beyond the 10,000 Hour Rule: Richard Hamming and the Messy Art of Becoming Great - http://calnewport.com/blog...

August 9 from Google Reader - Comment - Like

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"By testing various product attributes through marketing - http://www.google.com/reader...

August 9 from Google Reader - Comment - Like

Kartik Agaram

Funny thoughts on Maslow's hierarchy - http://lunchbreath.com/cartoon...

August 8 from Google Reader - Comment - Like

Kartik Agaram

The Gateway Drug to Type Programming - http://blog.ezyang.com/2010...

August 6 from Google Reader - Comment - Like

Kartik Agaram

"I am re-implementing a lisp program in Java. The Java program has more curly braces than the lisp program has parens." http://article.gmane.org/gmane...

August 6 from Twitter - Comment - Like

Kartik Agaram

Using game dynamics like it's 1999: http://www.fastcompany.com/node... /cc @thisissethsblog

August 3 from Twitter - Comment - Like

Kartik Agaram

"It's all about the bike." The pursuit of happiness on two wheels. http://readwarp.com/url...

August 3 from Twitter - Comment - Like

Kartik Agaram

I especially like this for the final sentence: http://techcrunch.com/2010...

August 3 from Twitter - Comment - Like

Kartik Agaram

My Stardust Memories - http://www.theamericanscholar.org/my-star...

August 2 from Google Reader - Comment - Like

I can relate to nightmares about having to redo my degree. - Kartik Agaram

Kartik Agaram

Hollywood movie idea for the day: liposuction vampires.

August 1 from Twitter - Comment - Like

Kartik Agaram

How to Save the News - http://www.theatlantic.com/magazin...

July 31 from Google Reader - Comment - Like

Kartik Agaram

The End of Forgetting - http://www.nytimes.com/2010...

July 25 from Google Reader - Comment - Like