Ben Reyes

Hacker / Entrepreneur / Failed Student

TV On The Radio - Nine Types of Light A collection of music videos, it’s very well put together. 

I live and die by data

Self

Picasso Painting Process (9m10s) - Watching this process and mistakes is much more encouraging than seeing the finished product. Which is why you should never compare your inside, with someone else’s outside. We see all the mistakes in ourselves but we only see the other’s final products. But if more of us could show the world our mistakes, and our sweaty working process, we would actually be doing everyone a big favour. 

What the dog saw

Why is a two year old so terrible? 

Because she is systematically testing the fascinating and, to her, utterly novel notion that something that gives her pleasure might not actually give someone else pleasure and the truth is that as adults we never lose that fascination.

What is the first thing that we want to know when we meet someone who is a doctor at a social occasion? It isn’t “What do you do?”. We know, sort of, what a doctor does. Instead we want to know what it means to be with sick people all day long. We want to know what it feels like to be a doctor, because we’re quite sure that it doesn’t feel at all like what it means to sit at a computer all day long or teach school, or sell cars. Such questions are not dumb or obvious. 

Curiosity about the interior life of other peoples day to day work is one of the most fundamental of human impulses, and that same impulse is what led to writing you now hold in your hands.

Malcolm Gladwell (Quoted by Tim Davey)

1998 Documentary Silicon Valley: A 100 year Renaissance

Rule No. 1 - of a cognitive psychology ‘hacker’: Never exploit cognitive baises for evil.

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These intelligent Quadrocopters are really going to take over the world. They can now juggle balls cooperatively.

[original video]

Jason Cohen at Business of Software Conference. Ways to work out whether advice is helpful to you.

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