The Last Policeman: solving a murder before an asteroid wipes out life on Earth

Via Boing Boing: It won’t spoil the story when I tell you, because it’s revealed on page 22: “six months and eleven days from today… a 6.5-kilometer-diameter ball of carbon and silicates will collide with Earth.” That explains why most...

The Last Policeman: solving a murder before an asteroid wipes out life on Earth

Via Boing Boing: It won’t spoil the story when I tell you, because it’s revealed on page 22: “six months and eleven days from today… a 6.5-kilometer-diameter ball of carbon and silicates will collide with Earth.” That explains why most...

Delaying gratification

Initially found via Instapundit: …one of the most effective ways to distract ourselves from a tempting pleasure we don’t want to indulge is by focusing on another pleasure. So the next time you find yourself confronted with a temptation–whether a piece of...

Delaying gratification

Initially found via Instapundit: …one of the most effective ways to distract ourselves from a tempting pleasure we don’t want to indulge is by focusing on another pleasure. So the next time you find yourself confronted with a temptation–whether a piece of...

Malcolm Gladwell On Why History Will Remember Bill Gates And Forget Steve Jobs

Via Business Insider: So, why aren’t entrepreneurs like Jobs worthy of idolization? Gladwell points to one thing that all great entrepreneurs have in common. “The greatest entrepreneurs are amoral. It’s not that they’re immoral, it’s that...

Malcolm Gladwell On Why History Will Remember Bill Gates And Forget Steve Jobs

Via Business Insider: So, why aren’t entrepreneurs like Jobs worthy of idolization? Gladwell points to one thing that all great entrepreneurs have in common. “The greatest entrepreneurs are amoral. It’s not that they’re immoral, it’s that...