In case you were wondering about the up and comings

Some of them have already arrived. Some have arrived and retired. The really good ones are still out in the trenches thinking up good stuff!

But in a CNN article “40 under 40” we meet Max Levchin who among other feats in his young life:

Helped created the Gausbeck-Levchin fraud test, the alphanumeric jumble you’re asked to type before making a transaction online.

Hey you knew somebody created that right? Now you know one of those who were responsible! He’s the one who makes me say “type these letters to prove that you’re a human being…”

Also in the mix is Biz Stone and Evan Williams. You may connect them as co-founders of Twitter, but how do you feel about the nugget that Evan Williams was a founder of Blogger before that? Keep those ideas coming Evan – knew you way back when and have the blogger tshirt to prove it!

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Define yourself

Where are you and what are you doing with your life?

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Art

When i can’t deal anymore with the amount of money spent daily for war (instead of education and food and showing care for our fellows), I take comfort and inspiration in tales about people doing their work on a daily basis.

Here the NYTimes helps me out with a great piece about David Hockney. The two video pieces with the article are wonderful. Makes me want to get out my “speak yorkshire” training CD!

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Quotes found while rummaging

Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. (Scott Adams)

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. (Scott Adams)

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Turn

of the seasons comes slowly and grabs our attention suddenly

I awoke today and found
The frost perched on the town
It hovered in a frozen sky
and it gobbled summer down
When the sun turns traitor cold
and all the trees are shivering in a naked row
I get the urge for going, but I never seem to go.
— Tom Rush

Part of this great song

All that stays is dying, all the lives is getting out.

reminded me of the poem I quoted below. Compare to:

What lives, lives underground.
What dies, dies without struggle.
— excerpt from “Harvest” by Louise Glück from A Village Life.

Discuss.

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